Boulder-based musician Michael Garfield is offering a free download of Daylighting, an EP of acoustic guitar and effects improvisations. Don’t jump to conclusions based on “acoustic guitar improv” though — this sounds more like some of the sonic explorations that came out of the Robert Fripp/Brian Eno collaborations than some…
Here what the area’s local-centric specialty radio shows were spinning this week. We’re currently tracking the playlists a number of different shows including, Radio 1190’s Local Shakedown*, KTCL’s Locals Only, KBCO’s Local Edition, The Colorado Sound, which originates at KRFC and is re-broadcast all over Colorado, 99.5 the Mountain’s Homegrown…
Sharpen a stake, grab your pom-poms and join Mile High Sci Fi for its latest “comedic restoration” project: the film version of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. See, while the television incarnation of Buffy transcended the outlandish premise of a cheerleader who’s also the world’s last, best hope against the vampiric…
Cinemaphiles, meet Denver’s newest film event: The Film Festival of Colorado. The eclectic festival will showcase a wide variety of films, half of which originated in Colorado. “We invited films with the theme of adapting and surviving in our changing world,” explains Helen Trencher, the festival’s associate director. “A good…
Lights. Camera. Action figures! It’s time again for Gio Toninelo’s G.I. Joe Fest, a celebration of film dedicated to the stop-motion animated exploits of everyone’s favorite Real American Hero toys. Now in its third year, the event continues to find new tales to tell via the medium of Joe. This…
Something about warm summer nights makes them the ideal setting for high-energy, euphoric trance. Maybe it’s the energy boost you get when the heat finally breaks, or the side effect of too much sun that makes those insistent drums and soaring vocal breaks seem like such a good idea. Whatever…
Ah, the producer. It’s one of the most thankless jobs in hip-hop. Apart from a few superstars like Danger Mouse and Timbaland, most producers are destined to be overshadowed by the MC on the track and displaced by a DJ in a club despite their vital role in the music-making…
Thursday nights at Sutra have been banging for a while and now they’ve got a spiffy flier to shout that fact at the world. The weekly event features some of the area’s best dubstep and drum and bass DJs, with a smidgen of fidget and breakbeat thrown in for good…
As people who think about, talk about, listen to and make music, the most common question we encounter is, “What are you listening to right now?” So whether you’re looking for recommendations, trying to get a feel for our individual sensibilities, or are just curious, we’ve compiled a list of…
Do you work out the pipes in the shower singing your favorite John Mayer tunes? Are you known for your wicked karaoke version of “Half of My Heart”? Or maybe your friends are always telling how you much you sound just like everyone’s second favorite Mayer (after Oscar, of course)?…
Don’t worry, none of us have been spirited away to some dank jail cell to pay for our crimes and send out the occasional dispatch in the form of a toilet pic. It only looks that way, based on this somewhat sketchy bathroom. Actually, we’re pretty sure jail toilets don’t…
Well, it’s official: Denver’s music scene is one of the heavyweights nationwide, as confirmed by a recent study. Well, duh. We tell you that every day…
Until now, if you wanted to look exceptionally silly playing an electronic instrument the keytar was your best bet. Not anymore. That’s all changed with the introduction of the iTar, a “Guitar/DJ frame” for the iPad sporting doofus with everything but a sense of shame…
In possibly the strangest bid to return to relevance in the history of pop culture, Whitesnake, famed for its luscious hair, generic hair-metal anthems and Tawny Kitaen-filled music videos (see above), is trying to make a comeback. Not with a new album (god forbid) but with a delicious alcoholic beverage…
Just how prolific is Zachary Tipton of I Am the Dot/Young Coyotes? How about so prolific he can stop by a friend’s house in the middle of a move across country and “unexpectedly” record and release a cool new song with them? That’s the story behind “Good Person,” a brand-new…
Today’s video conjures the halycon days of ’80s MTV, when bands would pair their slick, irresistible synth-pop masterpieces with heady, high-concept videos. It was a time that gave us timeless classics like a-ha’s animated masterpiece for “Take on Me,” and its spirit has returned with Hey Champ’s “Neverest” video. But…
There’s no place else to be today but the Westword Music Showcase — even if we do say so ourselves. We started by assembling what is arguably our best lineup of headlining talent ever, including Ghostland Observatory, Superchunk, Dirty Projectors, Neon Indian, BoomBox, Single File, Tickle Me Pink, Oh My…
Go inside the Russian mob, hear Texas oilmen explain how America’s addiction to oil will be its downfall, enter the world of “art cars” and more at this year’s DocuWest Film Festival, which starts tonight and runs through June 27 in Golden. The documentary-only event won Westword’s Best Film Festival…
New York City’s Jonathan Peters is one of those DJs who’s been around forever, worked with everyone and somehow still remained a virtual unknown. Perhaps that’s because he’s always focused on remixing, production and playing out, without releasing any big-name mix discs or artist albums. More than a decade ago,…
Deep beneath the waters of a lost lake, what would you expect to find? How about some strange, cryptozoological fish like the one that’s the centerpiece of our fine flier of the week? And, not coincidentally, it is a flier for the Lost Lake Lounge! This marriage of flier and…
On his latest release Cosmic, local producer/DJ Zeno fuses the spacey, out-of-this-world ambiance of “cosmic music” with the gritty, bass-heavy rumblings of dubstep to excellent effect. The nine-track album (six originals, three remixes) is available for free, meaning if you you’ve been curious about Zeno, or just looking for some…
After all our hype, all our shit-talking and all of our preparation (okay, preparation consisted solely of previously mentioned hype and shit talking, we admit it), we came, we played and we got our ever-loving asses kicked at our own music Knowcase. Yeah, we came in a desultory sixth place…
