Iuengliss, aka Thomas Metz, has been remarkably prolific over the last few years, but his newest album, Blank Matter, has been in the works for more than three years. In most cases, that would mean a big release party, a $10 price tag and a formal package. Iuengliss, it seems,…
We’re big fans of Illegal Pete’s Starving Artist series. It’s a great service for hungry bands in town or on tour, and it happens to be one of the more innovative marketing ideas we’ve seen in a while. That said, it’s not always easy to dig up the ambition to…
Noise shows seem to happen in spurts in Denver. One weekend there will be seventeen different shows going on and then there won’t any for a month and half. Thankfully, Backwards Records has decided to resurrect the monthly series first started by Jonathan Canady and Matt Jones in 1997. Night…
Epitonic.com was one of the first sites to host MP3 files of legitimately. Launched in 1999, it also happened to be the epicenter for all things indie, with a comprehensive list of bands, solo projects, off-shoots, record label details and plenty more. After a seven-year hiatus and a Kickstarter fundraising…
Ah, the weekend before St. Patrick’s Day, where you have to start preparing your body for the coming onslaught of bad choices. Regardless of when you decide to celebrate, you’ll want to prepare your stomach and bladder for the wrecking crew that’s about to destroy you. Or, better yet, get…
Phone sex is a dying, uh, breed, but that doesn’t mean it’s not still a lucrative business. While many folks have turned to the slightly more anonymous internet to rock their socks off, plenty of people still desire a bit more of a human touch. We decided it was due…
A HAWK AND A HACKSAW With Radical Knitting Circle • The Tanukis 03.09.11 | hi-dive A Hawk and a Hacksaw is not, in any certain terms, the type of band you yearn to see live. The outfit plays Eastern-European infused music with hat-tips to Middle Eastern and klezmer-inflected music with…
Sometimes all it takes to arouse our frontal lobes is a name that makes us stop and think. That’s certainly the case with The Man with the Invisible Trousers, a title so curious we had to stop in and set up shop. Thankfully, the gameplay matches the title and we…
Purple: Perhaps the least popular color in the Crayola box next to taupe and coral. Save for fans of Prince, the Minnesota Vikings, the Fluid and Grimace, it’s not exactly the most enticing color in the world. Amazingly, however, the Uncertain Sea has combined purple with a sort of sea…
It’s no secret that smartphones have changed the way we experience music, but most of the apps we’ve seen thus far have been spotty, poorly realized cash grabs that have little or nothing to do with the artists in question…
While party people are likely celebrating Fat Tuesday by hitting the streets and getting sucker punched by as much beers as their gut can handle, some of us prefer to spend our days indoors consuming mass amounts of media and feeling sorry for ourselves for not having any friends. Thankfully,…
This month, Colorado Public Radio is holding its annual instrument pledge drive, “Keep the Music Alive,” to help bring instruments to public schools. It’s a great program that lets musicians donate old instruments to public schools, where they’ll get far more use than they do sitting in a closet. While…
Love’s lost album from 1973, Black Beauty, is finally going to see the light of day when its released in June. The album was their first with a new lineup after Arthur Lee left the band, but the record label went bankrupt before it was ever released. It’s certainly not…
Apparently, March didn’t get the memo that it’s supposed to come in like a lion, because the last week has been relatively beautiful and closer to the lamb-like status we’re supposed to having at the end of the month. Whatever: The mountain’s loss is our gain, as we’ll be able…
Author Benjamin Percy has his feet in pretty much every pair of shoes on the writing track: he’s a novelist, a short story writer and an essayist, he’s worked on graphic novels and short films and he teaches on top of all that. Since he’s in town tonight at St…
Does anyone actually give a shit about what MTV has to say about music anymore? Didn’t the network abandon that whole “music” portion of its brand not too long ago? The outlet is banking on somebody giving a shit, because it’s just partnered with Sony’s “Extreme Music” library to help…
In 99.99 percent of all of video games, you control a character who walks around and explores or kills stuff. That’s all well and good, but what’s it like for those getting killed? That’s the question Second Person Shooter hopes to answer by putting you into the eyes of the…
Sometimes all a flier needs to do to win our hearts is be as adorable as possible. This comes together amazingly for the Snowball Festival up in Vail this weekend, which is filled to the brim with an array of acts, local and national…
Denver Noise Fest may very well be the loudest, most chaotic event that Denver sees on a yearly basis. It can give you tinnitus in the span of four minutes, cause an upset stomach in ten and rupture your bowels in twenty. That is to say, it’s the most fun…
Look, we’ll be the first to admit iOS is a treasure-trove of useless crap, but every once and while one of those pieces of useless crap steps outside the boundary and does something remarkably cool. Case in point, this Jackson 5 remix app called Musicshake that lets you completely reconfigure…
If you’re one of those weirdoes that do your taxes straight away at the end of January, then chances are you’ve got a big old government check burning a whole in your pocket right now. Thankfully, we’ve got plenty of stuff for you to spend your money on. If you’ve…
David Fincher has made a name for himself by giving audiences cerebral stories with a penchant to wash out color as often as possible. His latest film was the universally applauded Social Network, but before he wowed the critics he won over the common people with some of the best…
