Reality TV ain’t got nothing on the true-to-life biography of Year Long Disaster. It begins with the Kinks, takes a drug-addled turn with Speedealer and somehow ends up at Third Eye Blind. Frankly, it doesn’t make any sense at all. What is discernable is the outright rock and roll pouring…
‘Tis the season to give, so give already. You can start this Friday, December 9, at Club Evolution (821 22nd Street), with Nuclia Waste’s Island of Misfits Toy Drive, organized by the Colorado AIDS Project. DJs Achilles and Jon will spin the latest in diva house (imagine house music with…
A band cannot live off shtick alone. Sooner or later the gimmick wears out, and the act is banished to the bargain bin. Enter the Darkness, England’s lost boys of arena rock, who time-warped the sounds of Queen and Foreigner on 2003’s Permission to Land. The album was real cheeky…
After eighteen years in business, Pink-E’s (6080 West 92nd Avenue in Westminster) is going the way of the ’80s-centric hot-pink decor that’s been its trademark over the years. Scheduled to reopen on Friday, December 9, as the Zodiac Room — under the same ownership but different management — the former…
Rappers go through pseudonyms like Paris Hilton goes through boyfriends. It’s a game of sorts, or maybe a fear of commitment — a semantic defense to never get too attached to one thing because all things eventually go sour. Take Daniel Dumile, born in England but raised in Long Island,…
After a grueling day at the office, it’s nice to be able to wind down, get toasted, maybe get a date — even if that grueling day is a Tuesday. Last week, promoter Ryan Dykstra relaunched a weekly Tuesday Ladies’ Night at Vinyl (1082 Broadway). Pinched into the second and…
Band names can be indicative of many things, but be wary of assuming too much. A handle like Weedeater can be misleading. For one thing, the act doesn’t do psychedelic rock. Nor does it do tripped-out drug anthems. And mistaking its members for dreadlocked hippies might end up in a…
It’s hot and it’s black and it’s mobile. Cafe Nuba, a monthly showcase of poetry and arts that’s had problems finding a permanent home, is moving out of Five Points and into NoDo. Starting November 25, Nuba will hold forth every Friday at the Walnut Room, 3131 Walnut Street –…
In chick-flick terms, Kate Bush is Gone With the Wind. She’s a gem of a songstress who does romance in ways that have been imitated but never duplicated. She had the screechy-voice thing before Bjrk, the eccentricity of song structure before Tori Amos, and the lyrical weightiness before Fiona Apple…
There are differences between sludge metal and doom metal. There are also subtle distinctions between stoner metal and stoner rock. And then there’s Big Business, a band that fine-lines these subgenres of subgenres. Drummer Coady Willis (ex-Murder City Devils) and bassist Jared Warren (ex-Karp) don’t try to outdo what’s already…
FRI, 11/4 Freedom & Liberties, the new show at Capsule Gallery, leaves a lot of room for interpretation. “I have wanted to do a show on the theme of freedom and liberties for a long time because Bush, in his State of the Union speech, used those words an ungodly…
Google Kylesa, and the first thing that shows up is www.kylesa.com, with the tag line “We want to play your party.” Now, if the band were touring houses instead of clubs, it’d be like that scene from Weird Science when the post-apocalypse bikers crash through the living room, wielding barbaric…
SUN, 10/30 The Walnut Room, 3131 Walnut Street, hosts the weekly Entertainment Industry Night to give film and music laborers a place to belly up to the bar with their own type. Most Sundays they bring in DJ K-Nee, and every fourth Sunday they feature “Movieoke,” where cinephiles can act…
TUES, 10/25 When the SuicideGirls come to town, the Denver Fire Department had better be standing by. The last time they were here, the fire marshal had to be called to the Larimer Lounge because the troupe had more than sold out the show, pushing the venue past capacity. The…
Boyd Rice, an honest-to-God magister in the Church of Satan, doesn’t drink the blood of virgins — but he does spend many hours sipping tropical elixirs at Tiki Boyd’s, the tiki bar he designed inside the Ramada Inn at 1150 East Colfax Avenue. Once a dying sports bar that raked…
Mistress Raven’s been around the block, but this time she’s hoping to stay put. The driving force behind Rave’s Oh My Goth! has moved her emporium — originally an Uptown antique- and vintage-clothing store favored by drag queens — three times, but this latest location looks like the perfect spot…
THURS, 9/22 Musicians may have been temporarily silenced in New Orleans, but local acts are making lots of noise on their behalf. Help unsink the South when the Colorado Hip-Hop Coalition hosts Kickin’ Katrina to the Curb!, a two-night fundraiser that runs from 6 p.m. today to 1 a.m. tomorrow…
FRI, 9/16 Medieval myth says that Adam’s first wife, Lilith, was a demon, but feminist scholars, who delight in re-interpreting old stories, declared in the 1970s that she was merely an independent woman — the first ever to rebel against a dominating husband and a patriarchal God. Gregory Maguire took…
