Despite losing status as the “it” sound of dance music, trance is obviously here to stay. Just ask Armin van Buuren, who has snagged the top spot on DJ magazine’s list of the top 100 most popular DJs for three years running, from 2007 through 2009. The fact that trance…
Arvada, beware! There’s a big-ass, crocodilian kaiju coming for you. Your skyscrapers, supposing you have any, are in serious danger. And don’t let your guard down just because it says those claws are candy. Ahem. We were quite taken with this flier. We’re not sure if the awesome illustration is…
So, Lost is over. For a whole lot of us, that means we now have a distinct lack of twisting, deep narrative and wacky Island mystery in our lives, not to mention an hour a week to fill watching and several more discussing, dissecting and theorizing about, as well as…
Well, hello there! Guess Where I’m Peeing is making its triumphant return after nearly a month’s hiatus. What can we say — we can really hold it when we need to. For its glorious return, we chose a location with just a touch of class — a touch. It’s not…
Is there any better way to introduce kids to the love of Jesus than a freakish man in pink coveralls singing and dancing around and a talking donut puppet with a predilection for terrible puns? If there is, we don’t want to know about it. Today’s clip comes from a…
So, you think Lady Gaga is a vapid, no-talent fad? Wrong. You think she’s an entertaining, fun pop star? Wrong. You think she’s a strange, high-concept performance art project meant to manipulate our expectations of what a star is? Getting close but still wrong. Newly revealed, top-secret and utterly batshit…
Bigfoot. Cattle mutilations. Ghosts. UFOs. Experience the weirder, wilder and often overlooked corners of scientific inquiry today at the Mad Science Fair. From 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., the Metro State Crypto Science Society will turn the Tivoli Turnhalle on the Auraria campus into what founder Jason Cordova calls an…
If you can explain the significance of the numbers 4-8-15-16-23-42, have a theory about how polar bears got to a tropical island or have remodeled your living room to look like “The Hatch,” the opportunity of a lifetime has arrived. No, it’s not a position with the Dharma Initiative: It’s…
Somewhere in the Netherlands, some scientist has been hard at work genetically engineering dance-music titans. How else can you explain such a large number of top-level dance producers and DJs — Junkie XL, Sander van Doorn, Armin van Buuren, Tiësto, just to name a few — coming from a country…
Can one ever have enough giant ape? Not in our book. We love primates, and the bigger the better. That being the case, there was pretty much no chance this ginormous ape being assembled via a series of derricks and scaffolding wasn’t going to be our flier of the week…
On June 8, just a little late for its 21st birthday, the Cure’s classic album Disintegration is getting the kind of super-deluxe reissue treatment that should make goth kids, ex-goth kids and dudes named Rhett very, very, very happy. In addition to the de rigeur remastered album, Robert Smith has…
Pictureplane (aka Travis Egedy) got some more love from indie bible Pitchfork last week. The new media titan called Egedy a “Denver house music mastermind” while pimping his latest free mix, a 41-minute mix which includes selections from Crystal Castles and Rihanna and serves as an intro of sorts to…
Ah, the future of the late ’70s and early ’80s. A futuristic place, filled with wise-cracking robots, strangely medieval garb and incredible mustaches. At least, that’s what the vintage TV series Buck Rogers in the 25th Century was predicting. That, and some really sucky music. Luckily, Buck is there to…
The Denver Art Rock Collective is embracing their art rock forebears in early June at D.A.R.C Side of the Moon, a tribute to the music of Pink Floyd. To pull it off, they’re making the “Collective” element of their name a reality, performing as in various configurations featuring a rotating…
The epic dance music festival Electric Daisy Carnival will see its third year in Colorado on June 12. As big as the past two years have been, it looks like this year could be the biggest yet, pulling in top talent from the house, trance and dubstep genres, including Benny…
Want to own a piece of music history? Suburban Home Records is selling off a number of rare — essentially unique, actually — vinyl test pressings they’ve amassed over the years. If you aren’t familiar with the concept, test pressings are basically just what the name says, a limited run…
The Doors story is well known to rock fans, but it’s never been adequately captured on film until now. In When You’re Strange: A Film About the Doors, director Tom DiCillo has finally created a definitive document of the band, from its early days right up to the end. “He…
Of all the blessings that so-called reality television has visited upon us, is there any so glorious as RuPaul’s Drag Race? If reality TV is all about high-concept game shows fueled by interpersonal drama, then surely Drag Race is the epitome of the genre. High concept? It’s a show to…
Technology has improved nearly every aspect of our lives, and now, at long last, it’s been applied to mankind’s greatest venture: the search for cheap drinks. Village Voice Media Holdings LLC, the parent company of this paper, and GoTime.com have partnered to bring you Happy Hours, the premier smart-phone application…
Before striking out on his own, Pezzner put in sixteen years as half of the duo Jacob London. As interesting as that act’s take on house and breaks was, though, Pezzner’s solo work has quickly surpassed it. His mesmeric take on deep house has quickly gained the attention and admiration…
In five short, slashing songs, Lion Sized has created a classic punk-rock release for people who hate punk rock — or hate what it’s become, anyway. It’s tempting to call it post-punk as a nod to its intelligence, but that’s just because we’ve (mostly) forgotten how fucking smart punk can…
You excited for Showcase? Yeah, us too. So excited, in fact, we can’t wait. June 19 seems a long way off, so we’re throwing a free Showcase preparty called Get Your Pink On starting at 9:30 tonight at City Hall, 1144 Broadway. DJs A-Ray (grab his latest mixtape) and Mu$a…
