In the immensely entertaining documentary Best Worst Movie, the now-grown child star of arguably the worst movie ever made — the execrable yet strangely entertaining Troll 2 — tracks down his fellow actors and the acerbic Italian director and crew of that disasterpiece while delving into its strange cult of…
When a kid starts spinning records in his parents’ basement, he dreams of having the kind of career Dave Audé has had — if he dreams big. Let’s look at it by the numbers: 44 Billboard #1 dance tracks, including eighteen in 2009 alone, and toss in a Grammy nomination…
Music isn’t just a great way to fill your head with rhythmic/melodic noises. It’s also a powerful social lubricant, second perhaps only to alcohol in its power to bring people together and help you make new friends. Some of our best/most lasting relationships have been forged over the fires of…
For this week’s top flier, the legs have it. Four hypnotic, abstracted sets of them, like a mannequin-esque nightmare that erupts after a night of too much cough syrup and too many Robert Palmer videos — but in a good way. The key word here is synergy. The legs themselves…
Hey kids, here’s something fun, free and fresh to fill up your ears and digital music playback devices this fine Monday morning! It’s a groovy chiptune cover/remake/remix of the Accordion Crimes fine tune “Potshots,” done by the Ideal Fathers’ Mike King. Here’s let’s let him explain it: “Not much story…
If you ever needed an excuse to head north to Fort Collins besides the many fine breweries there, how about the Bohemian Nights at New West Fest? The free, three day festival is bringing in an eclectic batch of talent, starting with Flobots August 20. They’ll be followed by Earth,…
The number of science fiction authors who can number themselves among the objects of sexual fascination that have had inspired bouncy pop songs about that lust was, presumably, zero until very recently. But now, the ardor of Rachel Bloom for prolific and excellent science fiction author Ray Bradbury has changed…
Denver’s a great place for fans of the big five of genre film (that’s sci-fi, fantasy, horror, exploitation and cult), as every week we get a generous helping of selections to choose from. As usual, we’re rounding up your options for the weekend to come and the following week, and…
Behold the hypnotic video for “Franco Cleef Wyoming Reconstruction,” from the just-released (well, released August 13) George and Caplin album Scenic Byways and Secluded Malls/Requiem for an Encyclopedia. It’s a melange of what appears to be vintage footage from the Depression/Dust Bowl era, set to a gorgeous, twangy, Ennio Morricone-meets-Brain…
Part homage to the best of gore-soaked exploitation film, part passionate defense of the grimy grindhouse theaters that host them — and all completely over the top, All About Evil is a horror movie for people who genuinely love horror movies. The debut feature of cult-cinema curator/emcee/drag queen Peaches Christ…
The music of DJ/producer Steve Smooth is a bit like his name — kind of cheesy, but in a way that can’t help but make you smile. His pumping, high-energy tracks are short on subtlety and long on slick production and relentless thump. It’s a bit predictable and sounds enough…
Forget testing your mental mettle against grade-school kids. For a real challenge, head to the Denver Museum of Nature & Science’s Science Lounge for tonight’s Are You Smarter Than a Scientist? Even if you’re not sure how many electrons a hydrogen atom has, you’ve still got a shot: There will…
This was one of those occasional weeks where the second we saw this flier, we knew we had our pick. Don’t get us wrong — we still did the homework and looked at every flier we could find, online and off. And, to be honest, there were enough great fliers…
So it turns out Justin Bieber does have a purpose after all (well, a purpose beyond being annoying and giving pre-pubescent girls their first crush object). A musician by the name of Nick Pittsinger took Bieber’s “U Smile,” slowed it down 800 percent as a joke and inadvertently created a…
Today is the anniversary of Elvis’s death in 1977, and last week, an auction of possibly the most gruesome memorabilia of all time was planned to capitalize on the King’s untimely demise. The very same autopsy/embalming tools used to prep the King’s final appearance, plus the toe tag identifying him,…
Many awesome things come from Korea: Samsung, kimchiand Hyundai all hold a special place in our hearts. But all that is secondary to the greatest Korean export of them all — the K-pop genius of Wonder Girls…
Denver’s a great place for fans of the big five of genre film (that’s sci-fi, fantasy, horror, exploitation and cult), as every week we get a generous helping of selections to choose from. As usual, we’re rounding up your options for the weekend to come and the following week, and…
Did you know Denver’s a great techno town? Okay, Colorado in general, since a fair bit of our talent is in Boulder and/or small mountain towns — damn techno producer recluses and/or hippie freaks. Anyway, the point stands. While we may never rival the eight-hundred-pound gorillas of techno like Detroit…
Drugged-up pop tarts, sleazy paparazzi, celebrity stand-ins and psychos of every variety populate the south Florida of Carl Hiaasen’s Star Island. In his latest novel, Hiaasen aims his typically skewed and satirical wit at celebrity culture and the people who make their existence preying on it. As usual, Hiaasen’s colorful…
The music of producer/DJ/vocalist ill-esha is a unique take on some of the most exciting developments in recent dance-music history. Let’s start with glitch-hop’s bit-damaged aesthetic of urban futurism; from there, how about we mix in a healthy slug of dubstep whomp and grime? And let’s not be elitist: We…
This week’s flier caught our eye a few days ago, since the main image of it is Adam Reker’s cover art for the new St. Elias CD Altered Beast. It’s a CD cover! It’s a flier! And if you go to the CD release show this Friday at the hi-dive…
Weirdest thing: It was just the other day that we were thinking, “Man, the world needs more hip-hop-inflected tunes that use video game samples for the beats and video game metaphors to explain life.” And then today, guess what we find? Yep, that exact thing. Coincidence?…
