Insert coin for Pacman Fever
Our collective pop-culture past is littered with the remains of plenty of freaky material. Exhibit A is “Pacman Fever,” a novelty rock song from Buckner & Garcia about everyone’s favorite pie-shaped video game hero…
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Introducing the Westword Knowcase all-star team
We’ve been telling you about the Westword Music Knowcase for weeks. We’ve patiently explained how we will destroy all comers. We even took a few minutes to re-explain it, using only small words, to the conceited and confused elitists at the Donnybrook Writing Academy, who seemed to have trouble getting…
Excision at Cervantes’
The music of dubstep artist Excision is a fitting soundtrack to the desolate, gritty, apocalyptic landscape of a future ruled by homicidal machines. His tunes are warped, stuttering affairs studded with samples from both sci-fi and hip-hop (and probably some sci-fi hip-hop for good measure). Wobbly bass that can double…
Go Below With Indie Films
Head underground, literally and figuratively, to get a look at some of Colorado’s most unusual filmmakers when the Indie Film Underground sets up shop underneath St. Mark’s Coffee House tonight. The ninety-minute program of experimental short form film and video from independent artists from all over the state should offer…
Trash in the Pan
The bizarre, blurry nightmare that is Harmony Korine’s Trash Humpers starts ugly, ends confused and spends a lot of time and videotape getting there. On the way, it meanders from lowbrow comedy to snuff-film horror without ever stopping to explain itself. “It is a genre film, but it’s just taking…
Disco Nouveau calls with a striking, minimal design
If you’re going to advertise a disco night, what better image to choose than the all-powerful disco ball? None better. Even as disco’s influence across the land waned, the glittery allure of the disco ball never faltered. Everyone loves a disco ball. And we love this flier. Not just for…
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Hearsay bits: Savoy at EDC, EDC timeslots announced and new member for Potcheen
Savoy ahoy! – Savoy, easily one of Colorado’s best up and coming dance acts, recently announced they’ve been booked for the Dallas and Los Angeles dates of Electric Daisy Carnival, one of the nation’s biggest dance music festivals. Strangely, they won’t be playing this Saturday at the Denver date for…
Go shopping with Die Antwoord
It’s been a while since we checked in with everyone’s favorite South African rap-rave act Die Antwoord (since Ralphie brought us a micro-review of the act’s first-ever US set at Coachella), but this should make up for it. The act is starring in the latest “What’s in my Bag?” entry…
Lady Gaga’s “Alejandro” video ups her weirdness quotient. Again.
Just when you thought Lady Gaga couldn’t get any weirder, she delivers something like this video to prove she’s just hitting her (weird) stride. When we delved into the most WTF videos of the year so far, we speculated that the then-unreleased video for “Alejandro” would score highly on the…
Battle Talk gets dubstep in your hip-hop
On the just-released Battle Talk Volume 1, four Denver DJs have joined forces to create one big mix that blends dubstep’s whomp, atmosphere and production style with hip-hop, turntablism and funk. The mix is a showcase for the talent of Ale Fillman, Odeed, Chewie and Zeno, not to mention an…
Young Coyotes end hiatus and prepare to head back into the studio
The extended hiatus of Young Coyotes is finally at an end. We heard last week that the duo have announced that they are in the process of recording a full-length follow up to their previous two EPs. Now we have some details. Zachary Tipton tells us he and Adam Halferty…
Nigel’s rainbow-powered green-screen adventure
This is Nigel. Nigel is a dancer. Just ask him, he’ll tell you. In today’s video, Nigel gets his groove on in an audition. And through the magic of green-screen special effects, Nigel’s groove is augmented by blasts of rainbow colored awesome. The video claims to be an outtake from…
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Ready to get your ass kicked at Knowcase?
The Westword Music Knowcase, that all-music pub quiz we conned Geeks Who Drink into creating so we could kick some asses, is shaping up awesomely — for us. We’ve got word that some of the best music minds in Denver are coming to play. Too bad for the rest of…
Get in the Game, Player
Attention, Spartans: Polish your armor, clean your battle rifle and prepare to report to duty. Your skills are needed today at five locations around town for a free Halo 3 Tournament, and nearly $4,500 is at stake. Yes, your Halo 3 skills may be a little rusty since you moved…
Bugging Out
In this country, responses to a personal ad stating “Must love bugs” would probably be both strange and rare. But as the documentary Beetle Queen Conquers Tokyo reveals, you’d do a lot better with that in Japan, a country with a deep cultural fascination with beetles, crickets and just about…
DJ Falcon at Beta
France’s DJ Falcon has been around for more than a decade, but you can be forgiven if you’ve managed to overlook him. He’s not the most prolific of producers, but the few tracks he’s put his stamp on are notable. His remix of Cassius’s “La Mouche” is a near-classic, and…
Air Dubai looks great in grayscale
This week’s flier proves that a great flier can be fashioned from very few elements. Just have a look at this Air Dubai flier. What do we have? a stark, stenciled image. Some type. A textured background. That’s it. And it totally works. It all starts with the wise, if…
Hearsay bits: New Paper Bird album coming, Young Coyotes recording and Duncan Barlow deejaying
Paper Bird have been hinting at big news in the last few days and big news they delivered today: The group’s second full-length album When the River Took Flight — recorded by Bob Ferbache and mixed by John McVey at Coupe Studios — is slated to be released on July…
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Master Chief’s outer-space German techno-pop extravaganza
You know Master Chief? Star of the Halo franchise, which is one of the biggest video game properties on Earth (or anywhere else)? Well, did you ever expect to see him take his helmet off, turn out to be a goofy-looking German dude and start singing? Neither did we, but…
Rock + Stunts = Stunt Rock
Click play to witness the awe-inspiring trailer for the 1978 Ozploitation obscurity Stunt Rock. The band Sorcery (owners of one of the worst Wikipedia entries ever) delivers its wizard-filled brand of prog rock. Australian director Brian Trenchard-Smith delivers a buttload of stunts and a meager plot, about an Australian stuntman…
A Ran for Your Money
Few films deserve the title “epic” as much as Akira Kurosawa’s Ran, an adaptation of Shakespeare’s King Lear set in feudal Japan. It tells the story of an aging king who decides to divide his kingdom between his three sons, only to see his plan dissolve into treachery, murder and…
Art Is As Art Does
Sometimes the art we like can tell people as much about us as the art we make. That’s the idea behind this week’s installment of Illiterate Film Night. The four artists currently exhibiting at the Illiterate gallery — David Coccagna, Andrew Hoffman, Sander Lindeke and Katherine Rutter — will each…