It was somewhere around 8 o’clock when the woman in front started dancing like crazy. She had to be in her forties, maybe fifties. She was dancing to Snake Rattle Rattle Snake at the Walnut Room in front of a collection of VIPs who had been summoned to witness the…
The best part about a three-day weekend is the shortened work week — just like that, it’s already Friday. But because you blew all your money on hangover cures on Tuesday morning, you’re all out of cash. It’s cool; we’ve got you covered with some cheap activities to get you…
Regardless of the fact Bill Hicks is often cited by current comics as one of their biggest inspirations, he was relatively unknown when he was alive, and even after dying in 1994 at the young age of 32, he remained overlooked by the public at large. To shed a bit…
Tommy Metz released his latest album under the Iuengliss moniker way back in March, but there was never a proper release show for the record. That’s being remedied this Friday, June 3, when he hosts a big party for the Laser Palace-produced VHS tapes at Rhinoceropolis with DJ Gorinto, Alphabets,…
Adventure games have had a bit of resurgence lately — still not breaking into the mainstream, but certainly garnering enough popularity to allow for people to come in and create new games that have an audience. Case in point, 1899 Steam & Spirit, an old-school adventure game that takes place…
Joe Triscari’s Moon Light Speed Press screen printing is quickly becoming one of our favorite concert flier makers in town, and Triscari and Josh Everingham’s Il Cattivo CD release flier proves once again they’ve got the screening skills to keep up with the already lovely artwork…
A couple weeks ago, ZetaKaye House released This Ain’t No Cowtown, a compilation of Colorado bands, and this week we’ve got a collection in a similar vein with some of Denver’s best comedians and poets. If you’re the type of person who’s scared to go to comedy shows or poetry…
Last Monday, Amazon decided to give away Lady Gaga’s new album, Born This Way for just 99 cents. The sale was so popular it brought the site down, and so the site repeated the same promotion on Thursday. That’s all well and good for cheapskate Gaga fans, but it reportedly…
Between 1996 and 2003, VH1 ran the Beavis and Butthead for old-people, otherwise known as, Pop-Up. If you’re too young to remember it or if you were like many of us and too poor for cable, the premise was that they’d take a music video and add additional, fact-based commentary…
It’s Memorial Day weekend, which for some people means a three-day party. For others it means celebrating veterans and for another set it means extra-long work hours. For most of us, it means we’ll be able to drink an extra mojito on Sunday morning and not have to worry about…
John Sayles is best known as a cult-director and script doctor, but apparently all that time spent writing and directing his own movies isn’t enough for him, as he’s also an accomplished novelist. Sayles will be hanging out at the Tattered Cover on Colfax this weekend to answer all your…
There has been a bit of a gold rush on making apps ever since Apple launched the App Store and Microsoft and Android followed suit. While a lot it is absolute trash that seems to point to some incoming app-bubble, there are a lot of interesting and innovative ideas mixed…
Back in 2009, comedian and actor Paul F. Tompkins was having trouble filling a venue in Atlanta, so he used his Twitter account to rally support. The ploy worked, and somewhere in the middle of it all, a fan made another request: “Why don’t you come to Toronto?” Tompkins replied,…
Most people know John Sayles as the filmmaker and screenwriter behind such crazy-genre cult classics as Brother from Another Planet, The Howling and Piranha, but he’s also the author of several award-winning books. Sayles’s most recent novel, A Moment in the Sun, is a 968-page toe-crusher of a tome that…
Can your five-year-old make a kick-ass game? You know, write the story, create the assets, record the voice-over and record some of the music? We didn’t think so, but Ryan Creighton’s daughter Cassie can, and it’s called Sissy’s Magic Ponycorn Adventure. It’s a magical adventure about a ponycorn (they’re the…
Have we ever told you how much we love dinosaurs? We really do — in fact, next to robots and cute animals, they’re pretty much our favorite thing to see on concert posters. That’s especially the case in this The Sound Collapse EP release show flier, where we get an…
Yeasayer likes to float between the lines of genre convention enough that its music is often mischaracterized as “experimental.” In some respects, it’s true — the group does sound different from other bands — but when it comes down to it, Yeasayer is a pop act making music for people…
It’s virtually impossible to utter the words “alt-country” without mentioning Old 97’s. It’s hard to say who was first, but Old 97’s were clearly at the forefront of the movement that managed to revive the rock-infused country of the ’60s while imparting it with a DIY aesthetic. Eighteen years later,…
It’s a bit of a dry week over here in new release world, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t a few notable things worthy of your time and money. In fact, provided you’re intrigued by such things as racing around in cars, the comic book hearings of 1954 or Transformers,…
If you don’t recognize the name Collapse yet, rest assured, you will. The band, which was formed by Zac Joe from Cephalic Carnage and is fronted by Ben Pitts of To Be Eaten, just released its first 7-inch split on the relaunched Ash From Sweat Records…
Oprah is returning to her home planet this week. Or she’s leaving daytime television. Or something like that. Everybody loves Oprah. Even if they’ve never seen her television program, they know Oprah is “truth.” She’s solid, she’s the bridge between different cultures and the essence of what it means to…
When Bandcamp launched in 2008, it didn’t take long for the free service to take off. That’s partially because of the fact it offers bands a chance to have a free, minimalist website and store with nearly no setup options, and also because it offers an easy to share audio…
