Quiz Wizards

How’s your knowledge of potions? Can you rattle off the names of all the star Quidditch players at Hogwarts without breaking a sweat? And what’s the magic word you’ll need to cast a summon spell? You’ll need to master all of that knowledge and lots more to stand a chance…

Megasoid at City Hall

Megasoid got its start as a Montreal-based mobile sound system with a predilection for turning illegal and unconventional spaces into after-hours parties. The duo’s aggressive street sound is based in hip-hop beats wrapped in edgy, innovative production that blends old-school electro and new-school noise into a unique, playful, bass-heavy sound…

I am the Dot contributes to Tangled; We Weave

We introduced you to Tangled; We Weave a couple of months ago, but if you missed it (and can’t be bothered to click that link to catch up), it’s a music and photography collaboration between Seattle-based photographer Jennifer Brookes and Denver Musician Eric Peterson (Houses, Old Radio). Every week, Brookes…

The drunken insanity of LCD Soundsystem’s “Drunk Girls”

If you don’t like LCD Soundsystem, the new song “Drunk Girls” probably isn’t going to change your mind — it’s the same kind of shouty, indie dance thing he’s been doing since the beginning. But that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t watch the video embedded above. To the contrary, if you…

E-Rotic takes you deeper with “Dr. Dick”

Germany is a strange, strange place, almost like Bizarro-world. It’s place where David Hasslehoff can have a huge success as a pop singer, for example. And if you keep that in mind, the existence, and success, of today’s freaky selection almost, kind of, sorta makes sense. Today’s clip is a…

Five superheroes that don’t need powers to kick ass

Kick-Ass starts tomorrow and, based on the early buzz and the trailers, it’s going to, well, kick ass. In case you’ve somehow managed to ignore it, it’s a film about superheroes that don’t have powers — just a desire to do some good and too little common sense not to…

Back to the Future

If Dr. Who was a steampunk epic done in the style of German expressionism, it would be Quest for the Indie Tube, filmmaker John Hartman’s high-concept sci-fi series created for the Internet. In it, a hundred-year-old inventor has to seek out new arthouse creations to stay young. He uses the…

Not Your Grandmother’s Green

Today at Four Mile Historic Park, you can learn how your great-great-grandmother’s lifestyle was eco-friendly long before green living and sustainability were buzzwords. Turns out our ancestors’ simple, thrifty habits like reusing and repurposing things until they fell apart made them paragons of environmental virtue. “They weren’t trying to be…

Akufen at the Bunker

Akufen’s 2002 debut album, My Way, was one of those records that just seemed to stand alone, unique and perfect. The microhouse sound championed on the disc was deep and technical without being over-intellectualized. The use of microsecond snippets of sound, chopped up and shaped into shuffling, swinging house music…

Freeloader: Savoy’s latest eye opener parts the clouds

There’s something about an overcast Tuesday that makes it all but impossible to get anything done. On a day like today, you need a little pick-me-up to get your ass in gear. May we suggest the latest Savoy release? The three-track release has two new original tracks from Boulder’s finest…

Freaky Friday: Pogo slices and dices Alice In Wonderland

This week’s dose of freak is of the trippy variety. It’s from an Australian sampling artist named Pogo, and what he’s done here is sampled tiny bits from the Disney animated Alice in Wonderland, and then built those snippets into a cyclic, psychedelic lullaby. With a video to match. Now,…

Film, Japanese Style

Take a crash course in Japanese film over the next four days with Focus on Japanese Cinema, a program of twelve diverse movies from the Land of the Rising Sun. “I think, locally, no one’s ever really done a Japanese Cinema 101,” explains Denver Film Society programming manager Keith Garcia…

A Novel Idea

To remind us of libraries’ value to society, the Printed Page Bookshop is celebrating National Library Week with a special Get Carded, Get a Book promotion. “Anyone who shows us a library card, we’ll have a really nice selection of free books. They can pick the one they want,” says…

Pheek at Theory + Practice

Techno has a reputation for coldness and sharp edges, even brutality. But it doesn’t have to be that way, and Montreal’s Pheek (Jean-Patrice Rémillard to his mother) is living proof. He delivers a warm, inviting strain of techno that defies the stereotypes without abandoning the foundations. While still embracing the…

Flier of the Week: Snake Rattle Rattle Snake at the Bluebird

Snake Rattle Rattle Snake’s debut headlining performance at the Bluebird is a momentous occasion, so it’s no surprise that the poster promoting it is suitably momentous as well. The flier definitely turned our head when we walked by it the other day, prompting us to head straight the computer to…