Inside the Disastrous Year That Destroyed Your Mom’s House

Jillian Johnson “is almost like Donald Trump,” says Yasmine Holtz, an event promoter known as Jhazzy Wolf. “Once you speak bad about her, she’s going to come for you.”

In December 2024, Johnson bought Pearl Stop LLC and became the majority owner of Your Mom’s House at 608 East 13th Avenue, a space previously occupied by legendary clubs like Malfunction Junction, the Snake Pit and Beauty Bar. She had never owned a venue before; her only experience in music was through No Fux Punx Productions, a small booking company that describes itself as “rated R for RAD” on its Instagram, which has just over 1,600 followers. “I’ve owned businesses, but I’ve never owned a venue before, and I’ve always wanted to,” Johnson told Westword last January.

But on December 17, 2025, signs posted on Your Mom’s House stated that the venue had been seized by the City of Denver for unpaid taxes amounting to $29,820.57. Those signs were frosted over with spray paint by the following day, but that didn’t change anything: The doors were still shut, and YMH still owed the city money, according to Laura Swartz, marketing and communications director for the Department of Finance.

“The vast majority of this — $28,479.25 — are unpaid sales taxes,” Swartz said the day the notice was posted. “$1,341.32 is unpaid occupational privilege tax, which is a tax employers pay. The unpaid sales taxes date from as early as December 2023.”

The liquor license for YMH had lapsed more than a month before the club was closed, according to Eric Escudero, director of communications for the Denver Department of Licensing and Consumer Protection. “The liquor license for this business expired on November 3, 2025,” he says. “They have a 90-day grace period to renew before they would have to apply for a brand-new liquor license. This business successfully submitted all the renewal paperwork and application. However, the check for payment of licensing fees did not clear the bank.”

As a result, he adds, YMH is “prohibited from continuing to sell alcohol to the public until they provide payment required for licensing fees.”

And YMH remains closed, despite a GoFundMe that was created on December 18, with this title: “Help Denver music venue open after inhereted [sic] tax issues.” In the first few days, four donations were made, amounting to $560, and no more have come in since.

In a statement posted on the YMH Facebook page, Johnson blamed the seizure on past owners, adding, “Importantly, this does not involve allegations of fraud, misconduct, or irresponsible operation by our current team.”

However, many people claim that Johnson has operated the venue irresponsibly, and worse. On social media posts and in formal complaints, former employees, as well as performers and promoters, say that they, too, are owed money by Your Mom’s House. The Colorado Department of Labor confirms that it has received at least nine wage claims regarding YMH since last January. And screenshots shared with Westword show Johnson threatening litigation against people who complain about their pay or her business, as well as posting and tagging individuals and entities she charges are harassing her.

On January 7, Johnson sent Westword an email stating, “I served the city of Denver, manager of finance, and city attorneys office today. I do plan on serving you all as well soon.”

Johnson’s suit lists the City of Denver, the Manager of Finance and the Denver City Attorney as defendants; it alleges violation of procedural due process, unlawful distraint, violation of Colorado taxpayer rights and unlawful taking/inverse condemnation. Johnson is requesting a jury trial.

Westword was unable to reach Johnson at the number she wrote on the city suit, while an email to the address listed on that suit bounced back. A response to an email sent to another address that Johnson had used to alert Westword to anticipate its own lawsuit said that it was no longer affiliated with Johnson. In numerous responses to emails sent earlier to that address, Johnson said that she would not comment on the record for this story.

As this issue went to press, Westword had yet to be served.

Claims of Theft and More

The Denver Finance Department and Colorado Department of Labor aren’t the only government agencies with files on Your Mom’s House.

On October 28, Jared Kohlmann, owner of Pro Photo Rental in Boulder, filed a report with the Boulder Police Department accusing Johnson of stealing equipment. He says Johnson rented two Sennheiser wireless lavaliere microphone kits, valued at roughly $1,500, on October 17; the microphones were not returned by the agreed-upon date of October 20. The case is currently open and under investigation, according to the BPD.

“After several attempts to contact Jillian via phone, email and text on October 21 and October 22,” Kohlmann says, “we finally got a text back from her on October 22 at 11:02 a.m.: ‘‘I apologize our sound engineer was supposed to go drop it off Monday. I’ll call them now, I didn’t realize it wasn’t brought back.’

“We sent several further follow-up texts, but never heard another word from her after that. It appeared that she had blocked our number at this point, as all of our calls were routed immediately to voicemail.  We also tried running her card for the late fee and found that the card was no longer valid. As per our rental agreement, we consider equipment stolen after it is seven days late and there has been no contact from the customer. We also took into account the phone routing and no longer valid credit card. So on October 28, I filed the police report.”

Pearl Stop LLC is also listed as a defendant in a case filed in Denver County Court on January 5 by Rocky Mountain Air Solutions. The business claims it is owed $6,809.35 by the venue; a court trial is set for May 19.

Johnson is also a defendant in Denver District Court. Back in April, former YMH co-owner James Bedwell filed a lawsuit there accusing Johnson of fraud, breach of contract, civil theft, unjust enrichment and defamation, claiming he was meant to stay on as a co-owner of Your Mom’s House. According to the suit, Bedwell “brought Johnson into the business and eventually allowed her to acquire shares and play a role in its operations.”

Then, it claims, “without proper corporate authority or consent,” she began operating YMH under a new entity, and “Johnson subsequently removed Bedwell’s access to the premises, operations, and finances of the business.” The suit also accuses Johnson of making “a series of false and defamatory public statements about Bedwell.”

Johnson filed a response denying all claims, and alleging that “cash receipts and inventory [were] removed or misapplied.” Her response claims that Pearl Stop LLC had become inactive, but “the venue continued to operate and sell alcohol illegally, as the leaseholder no longer matched the license” under Boogie Force Productions LLC, before she purchased Pearl Stop LLC “to restore compliance.” Meanwhile, “Bedwell also retained unauthorized control over the business’s Instagram account and used it to post harassing content.”

Johnson also claims she “discovered unpaid vendor invoices, payroll discrepancies and missing inventory from prior management,” and that Bedwell “failed to turn over banking and POS access and continued to divert business revenue totaling $10,000 into an unauthorized EIN-linked account.” She complains that she was fined $5,000 by liquor enforcement “for violations committed before her ownership,” and received wage complaints “totaling approximately $20,000, stemming from the period when Bedwell still controlled payroll and operations.”

Her response alleges that people who submitted wage claims embezzled money.

She is asking to be awarded compensatory damages, including “consequential and incidental damages; treble damages, fees, and costs on the civil theft claim; pre and post judgment interest at the statutory rate; declaratory and injunctive relief.”

“We are continuing to pursue Mr. Bedwell’s rights in the civil case we are pursuing,” says Wadi Muhaisen, Bedwell’s attorney, adding that “he denies any of the accusations; everything will be resolved in the legal process, not the rumor mill.”

Bedwell himself declined comment because of the ongoing legal proceedings.

Your Mom’s House Had Drama Before Jillian Johnson…Who Made It Worse

“It’s heartbreaking,” Joseph Hite says of the current state of Your Mom’s House. “I put my blood, sweat and tears and lots of money into that place over an eight-year period.”

Hite created Your Mom’s House with Bedwell, opening the venue in 2017 alongside two shadow co-owners, Tucker Schwab (21 percent owner) and Austin Lane (9 percent owner), who still have their shares but are not active in the club’s management. Hite put “countless hours” into the venue, including painting the building and designing signs. But as his relationship with Bedwell deteriorated over the last couple of years and the business went further into debt, he says he decided to back away.

Before that, he attempted to close the business altogether. On November 7, 2024, Hite sent staff an email titled “notification of layoff and closure of The Pearl Stop LLC.”

In the email, Hite said that “there have been multiple reviews and comments made to the company reporting artists not getting paid. The bills are late and not able to be paid. Licenses are not able to be paid. Payroll has been late the last 2 periods and as of today we don’t have even half the amount we need to complete payroll this period. Staying open is currently costing the company almost 800 a day that we don’t have to stay open….the pearl stop needs to close as soon as possible and all affected parties need to be notified accordingly.”

He added, “A total of %65 of this company wishes to make a sale and anyone including james who wants to make an official offer on it.”

Bedwell quickly sent his own email to the staff. “Everyone disregard what Joe Dan has said here. He isn’t the owner of Your Mom’s House or Boogie Force Productions LLC,” he wrote, referring to his own company that had ownership in the club. “You guys are not fired and YMH is not closing down. Please carry on in working here at YMH. Everything is fine and we will continue to operate.”

Bedwell had his own specific response for Hite: “There’s no need to sell YMH. If you’d like to then we’ll be going to court to dispute it.”

Hite subsequently sold his 35 percent share of the business to Johnson, who agreed to pay him enough to cover a $10,000 company credit-card debt and a $19,243 line of credit. The agreement, viewed by Westword, lists the outstanding state taxes. Johnson signed the deal on December 29, 2024.

“She paid that $10,000 on that one credit card. I paid that off and closed the account,” Hite says. “And then the remainder, she said she couldn’t come up with that money, so I gave her a six-month loan.”

Johnson only made a few payments on that loan, according to Hite, so he sent her a payment demand last September. A couple of weeks later, on October 6, Johnson emailed him a “final demand and settlement notice” in an effort to get out of their contract, and threatened him with a lawsuit.

“I was like, ‘Well, your scare tactics won’t work with me,'” Hite recalls.

“As far as what you’ve heard about her not paying people? Yeah, it’s true, unfortunately,” he adds. “I feel a little sorry for her. I mean, I know her life has got to be an absolute nightmare.”

“I’m Super Familiar With Colorado Wage Claims”

Dominique Madsen saw some of the problems between Bedwell and Hite firsthand, but she says they were nothing compared to what she would later face with Johnson.

Madsen was hired at YMH in February 2023 and worked there as a manager until November 30, 2024, when she and a group of employees quit en masse.

Before that, they made a proposal to buy into the venue as a co-op, dubbing it “Our House.” Hite was “thrilled” with the proposal, she recalls, but the employees couldn’t come up with the $60,000 needed to make it happen. Hite then sent the layoff email, which Bedwell told the staff to ignore.

The final straw for Madsen came when Bedwell asked her to file a police report claiming that Hite had removed equipment from the venue, which Hite says he “has receipts for.” Madsen refused.

Bedwell “basically lost his mind on me,” she says. “I was already at the point of being ready to walk out anyway, and the other managers were, as well. And it was kind of like, ‘Screw it. Let’s just do it on Saturday because there’s a huge show.'”

She says that “the entire production team, all of the bartenders and bar staff, and then all of the security and floor, except for two people, resigned back-to-back that morning.”

When she resigned, Madsen informed Bedwell that in her final act as the payroll administrator, she had processed separation checks for employees who were leaving, including pending reimbursements and contract-related payouts. “I even forfeited over a week’s worth of my own leave payout,” she says, “despite my contract stating the opposite.”

A couple of days later, though, the money was clawed back from the now-ex-employees’ accounts. “That night and into the following morning,” Madsen says, “most of us filed the wage claims.”

The total amount due to Madsen is $10,340.16, according to a notice that the CDL sent in August to Pearl Stop LLC and Boogie Groove Entertainment.

She hasn’t seen a dime.

When Johnson started working with YMH, she appeared sympathetic to Madsen’s plight. “I’m reaching out to address the situation with YMH and to work toward resolving it,” Johnson wrote in a text to Madsen. “I have been involved in the Denver music scene for over two decades so this is saddening. My goal is to ensure that everyone is compensated appropriately and the matter is resolved to everyone’s satisfaction.”

She added that she would be examining Bedwell’s records. “With my background in finance,” Johnson said, “I’ll be reviewing everything thoroughly to remedy the situation for all parties involved. Please don’t hesitate to contact me with any concerns, as I’m here to advocate on your behalf and ensure this is handled correctly.”

When Madsen replied that she’d filed claims through appropriate channels and was uncomfortable “communicating via proxy” with Bedwell, Johnson assured her that “I’m not trying to fight his battle. I’m trying to fight yours.”

Confused, Madsen responded: “I’m not sure where you would have the right or ability to handle this problem instead of the man responsible.”

“I am a licensed accountant and have a law degree,” Johnson replied. “I’m super familiar with Colorado wage claims.”

She’s getting more super familiar by the day.

Madsen met with Johnson last January, and provided her detailed documentation showing what she believed she was owed. Johnson told her that she just needed “a couple more weeks.”

“It got to the point where we just were like, obviously your ‘couple more weeks’ is indefinite,” Madsen says. So she made a Facebook post explaining the situation.

“That was the initiation of the harassment,” Madsen says. “So [Johnson] blocked me everywhere and sent me a text message letting me know she did an audit and that I paid myself $12,000 in thirty days and that it was suspicious, so she had to work with the state department. … I wish I had $12,000 in a month — and if I had that, why would I make a wage claim?”

Soon, Johnson doubled that number, claiming that Madsen had embezzled $24,000.

Pearl Stop LLC has been fighting Madsen’s wage claim, as well as those of two other managers, shifting blame to Boogie Groove Entertainment and Bedwell, who direct it right back. According to the CDL notice, Johnson told the agency in May that Pearl Stop was “not the employer for the three claimants.”

As a result, the CDL granted Pearl Stop a good cause extension to respond. But the business did not file the appropriate paperwork. Instead, it “submitted a narrative response that…parroted the same argument raised in its initial contact with the Division that Pearl Stop terminated the claimants’ employment when it ceased operations on October 25, 2024,” according to the CDL.

Boogie Groove and Bedwell took a similar approach, providing “a narrative response that Boogie Groove was not the employer of the claimants at any time” and that Your Mom’s House “was operated exclusively by The Pearl Stop, LLC, a separate and distinct legal entity,” according to the CDL.

The CDL cut to the chase in a Notice of Determination. Both Pearl Stop and Bedwell/Boogie Groove Entertainment “each attempt to disclaim their own liability for those wages,” it reads. “Neither employer is correct. It is clear from the evidence submitted by the parties that between the two named employers, both operated the business for which the claimants worked.”

Johnson’s assertion that the Pearl Stop LLC was shuttered during that time period didn’t fly with the CDL. Its notice adds that while Pearl Stop “has claimed it closed or ceased association with YMH Denver and the claimants, no official filings with the Colorado Secretary of State reflect any dissolution or termination of Pearl Stop during the relevant time period. Based on the official records, Pearl Stop remained the legal and operating entity for YMH Denver throughout the entire period relevant to the claims.”

After the CDL determined that both entities were responsible for Madsen and the other managers’ wages in August, they both appealed. A hearing will be held with the claimants, Pearl Stop LLC and Boogie Force Productions/Bedwell, on April 28.

Meanwhile, Johnson texted Madsen in October that she would be filing criminal charges against her for theft and embezzlement, repeating the threat on social media.

“The behavior is just so confusing,” Madsen says. “It feels like retaliation, because the Department of Labor said [she has to pay us] the money, and then suddenly she’s trying to sue me for twice the amount of money that we’re due.”

A Pattern of Harassment

Madsen has yet to be charged with any crime. “This is her MO,” Madsen says of Johnson. “She’s going to fight with you online, and then she’s going to delete all her comments so that you are the only one that’s saying anything, and then she’s going to file a lawsuit against you, trying to sue you for slander, and then maybe try to file a restraining order. … You can’t intimidate people you owe money to.”

But you can threaten them. “At this point now, it’s just this online, vicious, threatening legal action and criminal charges and accusations, and ‘If I see you I’m going to beat you up on-site,'” Madsen says of Johnson. “I’m just trying to pay rent right now.”

She adds, “I’d like to live in your head with rent, please.”

Former co-owner Hite stands by Madsen. “I don’t think she stole anything,” he says.

Despite all of her own threats posted to social media, Johnson has made it clear that she believes she’s the victim. In one Facebook comment to promoter Yasmine Holtz, she wrote: “Ya about lame ass Dominique Madsen who has been psychotically harassing me for months now. That bitch has harassing posts pinned on her page. She stole a verified large amount of money from YMH when under the other owner. She has met me for 5 minutes but has continuously harassed me since February. Fuck that shit. And you wanna go laugh at that shit.”

With other posts, she tagged those she claimed were harassing her, including Madsen. In one, she even enclosed photos of Madsen and others, along with this message: “I’d like to start the day by sharing the weird ass hoes I’ve never met who won’t stop stalking me. Literally 9 months of them stalking and harassing me. They think it’s ok to do it and then get their feelings hurt when I respond. Go get fucking jobs or something you weird ass fucks.”

After Holtz had an event at YMH in April, Johnson sent her this text at 1:12 a.m. two days later: “Tell that bitch Dominique to put her money where her mouth is [laughing emoji] stupid ass bitch ha ha ha ha….Fuck that bitch for real. FYI she embezzled $24,000 from James and I did the financial audit upon buying the club and she was trying to demand $6200 and I was like no dude you embezzled. So now she is loud and annoying. She is going to get destroyed in court if she keeps fucking around.”

When Johnson purchased Your Mom’s House, she told Westword that she wanted to concentrate on punk rock. But the venue began hosting more hip-hop shows, which concerned Holtz, founder of the hip-hop open mic Wolf Wednesdays, which she’d started hosting at YMH in February 2024 before moving it to another venue that December. (Holtz is now based in California.)

“When Jillian took over, I was very hopeful,” Holtz says. “And that was just a huge disappointment for everybody.”

In April, Holtz had planned an event with Something Dope for the People, an L.A.-based hip-hop group, at Coco Bongo’s, but the venue dropped out at the last minute. Holtz reached out to Johnson to see if YMH could host it. “In the midst of me booking the new venue,” Holtz recalls, “they were saying, ‘Oh, there will be a last-minute fee.’ That’s fine, but they never told me what the fee was going to be. And it ended up being a really good event; the bar did really good. … So they didn’t say anything to me about the money.”

At least, not until afterwards. Holtz was surprised when she was later told that YMH required a door split for events; she had never heard of that during the months that she’d held Wolf Wednesdays at the venue, and she was not alerted to it before the April event.

She wrote on Facebook that she wouldn’t do business there again. “The next thing I know,” she says, Johnson is “responding back to me, calling me a bitch, saying that my event was trash, saying that I stole thousands of dollars from the venue…because I was supposed to pay them the door sales.”

Money wasn’t the only issue, says Holtz, who points to what she and others consider racist stereotyping. “You gonna come fight me like you do everyone else….ghetto [laughing emoji],” Johnson wrote in one Facebook comment directed at Holtz.

“You owe us money,” Johnson wrote in another comment. “You stole the entire door and you were doing drugs in the box office. GTFOH. No one wants to work with you but ghetto ass clubs that get shot up because your problems.” The club owner also bizarrely started using AAV slang, Holtz adds.

“I thought that was very profiling,” Holtz says of the comments. “What would make you say that? Is it because I’m Black? Is it because the crowd is Black? I just was really baffled, and I take that pretty serious, honestly, when people start to use those words towards me.”

Johnson also “started to make a bunch of fake profiles and leave reviews on Wolf Wednesdays,” Holtz remembers. Then, when Wolf Wednesdays was set to do a four-year anniversary event, YMH announced its own Wednesday-night open mic. “They literally copied my verbiage,” Holtz says. “Same exact day, same verbiage.”

In May, Johnson sent Holtz a message: “I’m heading to the court house and filing a restraining order on you and a lawsuit…I will be sending the sheriff to your event to serve you.”

Holtz was never served.

More Wage Claims Stack Up

After Johnson assumed ownership, she “built a culture in the environment as if [Bedwell] was like a lunatic that was gonna, like, try to harm people,” recalls Brandon Jenkins, a former YMH production manager who worked at the venue from last January through March.

Despite the talk, he adds, “I was like, ‘If I’m getting paid, I’m getting paid, so I’ll do the work. But people started quitting because she started getting a little unpleasant to work with.”

Then things got more unpleasant. Jenkins says he witnessed disputes between Johnson and Dom Garcia and Ashlee Cassity, who had introduced Pearl Divers nights at Your Mom’s House in December 2024, before deciding to leave the venue and take over the Mercury Cafe location at 2199 California Street. They asked Jenkins if he could help with designs at the new space, and he agreed.

“I kept it under the radar because Jill started getting quite aggressive,” he says. “How do I put this? She has one of those personality types that, if something in her system deems that someone has slighted her, she gets really determined that that person is out to get her, or is evil. She gets really begrudging.”

Eventually, Johnson found out he was working with Garcia and Cassity, and told him he would have to choose between the two bars. He chose the Pearl, “and as a result of that, she stopped paying me,” Jenkins says. “She did not pay me for the last week of work I did.”

Jenkins filed a claim with the Department of Labor. Because Johnson didn’t respond within the sixty-day deadline, Johnson was ordered to pay Jenkins $475.60 in unpaid wages as well as $6,000 in penalties, plus $1,500 in fines to the state, according to the CDL’s notice of determination. 

“Since then,” he says, “she’s been avoiding being served like crazy. I still haven’t received my money.”

For months, he tried to serve her with a demand for payment. “I’ve had my friends try to do it,” he says, “and any time that somebody goes over to the venue to try to get a hold of her, she, I guess, directed the employees to tell them that she’s not there.”

Jenkins guessed right. “I know that Jill would be there as little as possible,” recalls Rosemary Spreight, who worked at YMH as a bartender from September 2025 until the end of October. “She said that if anybody asked for her, just say that she wasn’t there.”

When Spreight brought up her own lack of payment with Johnson, she says she was removed from employee group chats and an app used for scheduling shifts. “I sent her a text that I filed my demand for payment via email,” Spreight says, adding that after she posted on Facebook about the issue, she received a Venmo payment from Johnson…and a threat.

“She owed me $450; she sent me $337 and took $122 out for taxes. I told her that that was wrong; she said she still owes me $47, but hasn’t sent it,” she says. “Then, she threatened to send the cops to wherever I was because she is filing a restraining order against me. She said that my Facebook post is slander and she wants to sue me for that, too.”

Spreight still filed a claim with the Department of Labor, saying she’s still owed $450.

Jhenae Westbrook also filed a wage claim. According to her demand for payment, she is owed $664.47; her filing claims that she was employed for 25 days without pay.

Westbrook began working at YMH as a barback in October 2025; her last day was November 8. Aside from not being paid, she says, “it was a very nice workplace, very nice people.”

Like Spreight, Westbrook says she wasn’t formally fired, but was removed from employee communications. After going without pay, Westbrook searched Johnson’s name on Google and saw “Facebook post after Facebook post,” she says. “Even posts that she made on Instagram, past statements and comments. It definitely wasn’t positive. I felt like I had to search to see anything positive. I guess that would’ve been good to know, but…it did make me feel better to know it wasn’t a personal experience.”

“Do Not Fuck With These People” — Performers Getting Stiffed

Josh Garcia, the owner of Makeshift Skateboards and Makeshift Music House, met Johnson through the punk scene, when No Fux Punx Productions booked a friend’s band from Austin, the Brothels, at HQ. A year later, he decided to book his artist Nattali Rize at Your Mom’s House on May 24, 2025.

“We did that show, it went great, but the way Your Mom’s House is ran is a joke,” he says, noting that the venue had been double-booked. “During load-in, the main bartender quit. And then in the green room, one of the security guards asked if we needed waters or anything. And we go, ‘Yeah, man, we could use some waters!’ And he goes, ‘Oh, I don’t got anything like that.’ … As soon as he walks out, we’re just cracking up.”

The show went well, but Rize later told Garcia she hadn’t been paid. When Garcia reached out to Johnson, he says she told him that she’d sent a payment of around $2,500. “Oh, God, here we go,” he remembers thinking. “This is what I’ve been hearing about. Once I brought up Nattali, communication ceased to exist.”

Rize let the issue slide, he says, and he didn’t try to contact Johnson again. But after he learned the Brothels hadn’t been paid for a show in August, he watched the ensuing “crash-and-burn kind of thing” on social media…until all of a sudden he couldn’t. Garcia had been blocked by Johnson.

“I never did anything like this to anyone when I was in my stages of learning how to be a promoter,” Garcia says. “I’ve never experienced anything like that.”

David Luna, the lead vocalist and frontman of the Brothels, hopes that other punk bands won’t have the same experience with No Fux Punx Productions and Your Mom’s House that he did. He had met Johnson and Jon Pawn, who together run No Fux Punx, in the summer of 2024 when No Fux Punx booked the Brothels to play HQ alongside the Pawns, Jon Pawn’s band. Luna says he became friends with Pawn and Johnson, and stayed in touch with them.

The Brothels were booked by No Fux Punx to perform at YMH in September with legendary punk group M.D.C., after Luna recommended the venue to M.D.C.’s own booker. In screenshots shared with Westword, Johnson told Luna she would pay the Brothels $1,000 for the dates at YMH, as well as “probably” $500 per show in Colorado Springs and Pueblo via No Fux Punx.

“It’s not uncommon for [a] booker/ promoter to book shows in different cities to ‘build’ their brand and expand their network,” Luna says. “Example: I recently invited 3 bands to do a four-day Texas run. I booked all the shows, was the main point of contact. I collected the money and I payed out the bands every night. I agreed to pay out the bands’ gaurantee, nightly. If we didn’t make the gaurantee that night, it’s up to me to come with the money I committed to, not the actual venue.”

Luna says the band received $1,000 total. The Brothels had planned to use the rest of the money for an offshoot tour, but when he texted Johnson regarding the other $1,000, she replied: “I know I would never agree to $2,000,” adding, “I hope you wreck your van and your head gets cut off.”

Luna now regrets not signing a contract, he says, “but when you’re friends with someone for over a year and a half…”

Luna blocked Johnson after receiving vitriolic messages from her for a week. “I don’t even give a fuck about the money anymore,” he adds. “But just being in the punk scene and the music scene for decades…I just want to let everyone know: Do not fuck with those people.”

He’s not the only one. Numerous posts in Denver-centric Facebook groups claim nonpayment by YMH, and reference Johnson’s unique use of social media platforms.

Johnson has maintained that social-media strategy in the wake of the city seizing Your Mom’s House.

“Fuck Denver Westword,” she wrote, after an article about the venue’s December closure went live on westword.com. “You guys are so lame that you’ve written 5 articles about me in 1 year [laughing emoji] I’m flattered by y’all’s obsession with your tabloid paper. It’s funny how I tell everyone about this all day FUCK THE WESTWORD.”