WARLOCK PINCHERS with Il Cattivo 12.31.10 | Gothic Theater Around 9 p.m., the safety videos started up and it looked and sounded like something straight out of Wonder Showzen. Puppets and people in a gorilla and a robot costume interacted as they would on a warped, faux kids’ show: surrealistic,…
EOTO • HEYOKA • DIESELBOY With Project Aspect • NitGrit • Ishe • SPECTRE J.Wail and Chuck Morris of Lotus • Fresh2Death • Freddy Todd • Jantsen NastyNasty • Liquid Stranger • RumbleJunkie • Larva Ink City Hall Amphitheatre | 12.31.10 City Hall Amphitheatre recently renovated their outdoor stage by…
A NEW YEAR UNDERGROUND With Hence * Eli D * BeeKay * Travis Press * Uriah West * Brick Lee 12.31.10 | Theory + Practice The only sign that the Theory + Practice gallery, 738 Santa Fe Drive, was hosting an epic New Year’s Eve party was the pounding bass…
After over a decade of Colorado-centric album releases, Smooch Records has called it quits. The California-based label released music from over a dozen Mile High City bands with a dark country twinge, putting out music by the likes of Slim Cessna’s Auto Club, 16 Horsepower and Woven Hand…
Mother Earth Sound System and CrowdPleaser’s NYE 2010 at the Werks features up-and-coming techno DJ Patrick Russell. Hailing from Detroit, Russell also has a few original productions and remixes under his belt. CrowdPleaser and MESS DJs Tess, Deciprocal and Scott Everett warm up the main floor. Chill out room hosted…
Sound Tribe Sector 9 opened up the first of a three-night residency at the Fillmore Auditorium last night, selling out the venue. If you don’t get tickets for tonight’s show, you can’t blame us! (New Year’s Eve is sold-out.) Photographer Aaron Thackeray was at the Fillmore last night and brings…
Y’all can cancel the Amber Alert. Kevin Kain is alive and well. Very much so. Last night, the local Twitterverse was buzzing with word that promoter Kevin Kain had allegedly been killed in a car accident at the Southlands Mall. Turns out the erroneous rumor was just that. Talk about…
The Epilogues are filming a video, and the band needs your help. Through kickerstarter.com, the dudes are hoping to raise $4K — $1,390 of which they still need to come up with in the next five days — to cover the cost of production, cast, crew and the like for…
It was avery slow week for concert announcements, which usually happens around this time of year, but there were a few new shows added. Jazz singer Madeleine Peyroux returns to the Boulder Theater on Wednesday, April 13. General admission ($30) and reserved ($40-$47.50) tickets go on sale next Friday, January…
KDJ Above, a resident in the club rocking scene, is joining the KS-1075 team in a move that has set Denver’s hip-hop world ablaze. This past year, KDJ has been a regular at Gallery 22, as well as the prominent DJ causing a ruckus at Club Sutra’s wild weekly Friday…
We see a lot of posters throughout the year, and many of them are stellar. This usually all comes to a head on New Years Eve, when venues pull out all the stops and unleash a ton of kickass posters. We haven’t seen many, however, that have come even close…
If you’re up this early, you likely weren’t at the “old school” industry holiday party at Jet Hotel & Lounge last night, hosted by Greg Bloom. Which is why you can check out these photos from last night without a single twinge of morning-after regret or under the effects of…
Say what you will about 50 Cent, love him or hate him, you cannot knock the dude’s hustle. While this might not be quite as meaningful to those of us in the Mile High City who can only vaguely remember what snow looks like, if you travel back in time…
THE FLAMING LIPS With Vitamins 12.27.10 | Belly Up Aspen A few weeks ago, Flaming Lips frontman Wayne Coyne stopped by the Belly Up to scope out the 450-seat venue. “I wanted to see how much of a Flaming Lips show [we can do] in this small spot here,” Coyne…
Fresh on the heels of releasing their Isn’t It Fun? EP this past September, the members of Safe Boating Is No Accident are back in the studio, working again with film sound engineer Will Klingenmeier on the duo’s yet-to-be-titled followup. The release will come out on cassette, as part of…
For the more astute among you, this news comes as no surprise. Just over a month ago, we posted a video of Kamtin Mohager signing some sort of contract. While the Chain Gang of 1974 mastermind wasn’t at liberty to confirm or discuss any specific details at the time, we…
At the end of each year, after everyone’s weighed in on their favorite releases, the overall critical consensus is always interesting. Invariably, a number of titles consistently crop up on countless lists (ahem, My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy). But while you’ll find many of those acclaimed albums represented in our…
The name says it all: A New Year Underground is not going to be the highest-profile New Year’s Eve party in the city. However, local DJs Beekay, Brick Lee, Brandon Bass, Eli D, Rescue, Sean Michaels, Spindler and Uriah West are no strangers to throwing good parties — old-school style,…
As we compiled our annual Moovers and Shakers issue this year — a rundown of our favorite local releases from the past year — we found, once again, that there were simply more albums that we dug than we had space to devote to in the paper. Thankfully, no such…
Christmas night is a big bar night for some people — those folks who are back in their home town and who’ve maybe had just a bit too much quality time with family — which is why many bars throw special parties on the 25th of December. Nightlife photographer Aaron…
Memorable Christmas gifts are made with love, and in the case of this gent, his Christmas gift is infused with a rap-metal logos of the ’90s and early 2000s. Many of the classic T-shirts are there: the Korn Adidas rip-off and 40 ounces, the Coal Chamber ice cream truck, the…
Thursday night, a special New York City edition of Warm at Gallery 22 features three Denver-to-NYC transplants who are back in town for the holidays: Wyatt Earp, Crazy Larry and Juan Francisco. For years, Wyatt Earp of the Casa Del Soul collective was one of Denver’s favorite local DJs, holding…
