Breathe easy, Team Coco: Conan O’Brien’s “Suck on This, NBC!” tour will stop in Denver/Boulder. Conan will do two shows in May: Sunday, May 9 at Boulder’s Macky Auditorium and Monday, May 10 at the Ellie Caulkins Opera House, both at 8p.m. From the press release:…
Not everyone’s got mad graphic design skills and access to Adobe’s powerful design and art tools. And not everyone likes what results from fliers created that way, either. Sometimes, all it takes to make a killer flier is a quick sketch and some nice hand-lettered info. Especially if the sketch…
Between touring, backing up Booker T. on his Grammy-nominated album Potato Hole, releasing a live disc and a collection of b-sides and recording a new album, the Drive-By Truckers have been pretty damn busy. Next week, the band releases its tenth album, its first on ATO Records, The Big To-Do,…
This week’s flier is all about the design and a brilliant design it is. Without a kitschy image of Gamera, a nostalgic pic of a TV dinner or some mind-bending, trippy-ass collage work to grab attention, it’s all about the subtle interaction of simple design elements here. The resulting flier…
It was a hell of a week for show announcements, including rock legends, reunion tours and bit of everything in between. One of the most anticipated tours of the year is Pavement, who played its first show in a decade in New Zealand yesterday (photo of the setlist of that…
The preliminary lineup for Boulder’s third annual electronic music fest Communikey Festival of Electronic Arts — which takes place over four days from April 15-18 this year and continues its tradition of bringing in top-notch talent from the electronic music underground — has been announced. The stated mission this year…
All right, so now this is just getting aggravating. Earlier this morning, we received word that Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers and Thom Yorke had confirmed dates for their respective North American tours. No Denver date listed for either. That news had us bristling a bit. But now, we just…
It’s a bat! It’s a beast! It’s our flier of the week! And as to what “it” is, we’ve determined it’s a dog (we’re no dog experts, but it looks like a boxer, right?) hanging upside down. Presumably the upside-downing was done via Photoshop, because we know every time we…
Thirty Seconds to Mars sold out the Ogden Theatre last December, so it’s not too surprising that when Jared Leto and company return to the area on Friday, May 7, they’ll will be headlining the roomier Fillmore, with Mutemath and Neon Trees opening the show. Tickets go on sale Saturday,…
Mark our words: This year’s Westword Music Showcase is going to be absolutely SICK! — SICK, we tell you! Yesterday on KTCL, as you might have heard, we revealed part of the lineup. The best local acts spread out over ten stages across the Golden Triangle? Of course — that’s…
Not only is Joe Satriani a hell of a shredder on the guitar, early in his career he taught a bunch of guitarists like Steve Vai, Metallica’s Kirk Hammett and Rage Against the Machine’s Tom Morello. Now Satriani’s giving away free half-hour lessons. Well, the only catch is that you…
The Haiti earthquake happened months ago, but there are still people in our community reaching out a helping hand. We’ve posted all the benefits we’re aware of that have been organized by local artists and cultural organizations that are pitching in to help. And rest assured, we’ll continue to add…
This flier has lips, and it knows how to use them. A beautiful balance of imagery, color palette and typography is at work here. All the pieces come together into one tight, inviting package that displays an impressive talent for design. We couldn’t be happier to choose it as our…
In addition to a number of shows announced this week, Live Nation is offering the 2010 Country Megaticket, which includes four shows at the Comfort Dental Amphitheatre including, the Country Throwdown featuring Montgomery Gentry, Little Big Town and more on Sunday, June 13, Tim McGraw with Lady Antebellum and Love…
Our reason for picking this week’s flier of the week winner can be explained in a single word: GAMERA! Our love for Japanese kaiju in general, and Japan’s most awesome turtle in particular, means we pretty much knew this appropriated image of Gamera was going to get the top honors…
As if playing in Nirvana and the Foo Fighters wasn’t enough for Dave Grohl, he teamed up with Led Zeppelin’s John Paul Jones and Queen of the Stone Age’s Joshua Homme to form Them Crooked Vultures in 2009. The Vultures, who released their self-titled debut this past November, descend upon…
Starting on Tuesday, February 16, Jazzmatazz Lounge (1612 East 17 Avenue), which has offered live jazz on the weekends since it opened in November, will begin featuring live music Tuesdays through Saturdays. Piano jazz happy hours will run from 6 to 8 p.m., and bands will play from 8:30 p.m…
Retired Lipgloss resident and co-founder Tyler Jacobson is launching a brand new night at Paris Wine Bar (1549 Platte Street) called Split, a name chosen presumably as nod to yet another bygone Brit band. The new monthly, which kicks off on Saturday, February 20, will be helmed by Jacobson and…
If M.C. Escher was into doing collage, we think he might come up with something a lot like this week’s flier of the week. The bizarre, impossible geometry and wash of colors of the main image is eye catching, as a good flier should be. But it’s the weird little…
Quite a few shows announced this week that will be going on sale this weekend: The Black Eyed Peas, who just added another trio of Grammys to the three they already have, bring their E.N.D. World Tour to the Pepsi Center on Saturday, March 27. Ludacris and LMFAO open the…
UPDATE: Slayer and Megadeth have rescheduled the Denver date of their American Carnage tour. Look for both acts at Magness arena on August 25. Bad news if you had your heart set on being deafened by this wall of amps in a few weeks. The American Carnage tour, due at…
Denver’s roller derby leagues are on the move. The Rocky Mountain Rollergirls, who formerly bouted (that’s what you call a roller-derby-off) at the Bladium Sports and Fitness Club in Stapleton, just announced that they’re moving to the downtown Fillmore Auditorium, in partnership with Live Nation. Their first bout will be…
