Our favorite flier of the week is for yet another summer festival. This one is called Module Overloaded and it is happening August 1 at the Toad Tavern, featuring the lineup so clearly illustrated above. And it’s the integration of the typography into the image above that caught our eye…
When Motorhead rocked the Fillmore Auditorium last September, Lemmy and crew had the Misfits in tow. When the band hits the venue again on Saturday, September 26 the metal legends will co-headline with Reverend Horton Heat, and Nashville Pussy gets things warmed up. The Black Crowes also return the Fillmore…
Our flier of the week is a doozy this time around. It’s for the Get Down party, which is moving to Beta this Friday, July 3, bringing a whole slew of talent including Whygee & Brikabrak, Input, 1984 and a bunch more. But most importantly, for FotW purposes, it gives…
Mutemath kicks off its North American tour this fall in support of the release of its forthcoming album, Armistice, which hits the stores August 18. Along the way, the New Orleans-based rockers will stop at the Ogden Theatre Wednesday, October 14. Tickets go on sale Friday, July 3 at 10…
The cheery gentlemen of Meese will play some music at 6 p.m. this evening at Twist and Shout (2508 E. Colfax, 303-722-1943), in celebration of the release of their first album, Broadcast. The store gave out wristbands to everyone who pre-ordered the album, and as usual, the Wristbanded People will…
In this week’s Pole Position, we’ve chosen to spotlight this intriguing design for Lipgloss’s eight-year anniversary this Friday, June 26 at La Rumba. This typography heavy design is a little different from the usual flier, but that’s what caught our eye. It’s bold, stark, distinctive and packs a lot of…
Last month, The Sun reported that Shane MacGowan got himself a new pair of dentures to stop his face from “falling apart” after 35 years on the thrash. Sure, the dude’s been known as a drunkard of the highest order, he’s missed a few planes to gigs over the years…
The Flaming Lips know all about putting on a hell of a show, and the Monolith Festival gig at Red Rocks in 2007 was one most phenomenal things to happen to that venue in the last few years. Lets hope for a repeat performance when the Lips return to Red…
The Flobots are serious about their activism. I mean, how many other bands do you know that are opening up a community center to host everything from live shows to speakers and workshops to activist training? The center is kicking things off with an open house tonight, from 6 to…
After a killer two-night stint at the Ogden Theatre last year, the hip-hop duo Atmosphere returns to these parts Friday, August 15, when the pair headlines Red Rocks. The British act Bat for Lashes, who mesmerized folks at the Larimer Lounge in 2007, will play the Bluebird this time around…
Hot on the heels of yesterday’s announcement of Denver’s finest hip-hop acts paying tribute to the finest in that genre’s storied history, The Denver Art Rock Collective is paying tribute to the musical mastery of the one and only Britney Spears. Come again, now? Yes, that is right. Saturday, June…
In support of Yes, their tenth full-length album(!), synth-pop kings Pet Shop Boys have just announced an eighteen-date North American tour, to begin at the end of August. The show promises to be filled with plenty of costumes, capers and theatricality. Unfortunately, the tour schedule is focused on the coasts,…
Update (Thursday): Just received word from AEG Live that some great seats to the show tonight, which was rescheduled from Tuesday due to inclement weather, have just been released. Tickets are available at all TicketMaster outlets.(Posted Tuesday): Due to the inclement weather we’re experiencing right now in the Mile High…
It may not be so much of a secret now, but the rapper Aceyalone and the Slippers will be at the Meadowlark (2701 Larimer Street) Friday, June 5. Chances to see high profile cats like Aceyalone, who was one of the founders of the Freestyle Fellowship, up close at a…
As previously reported, the recently reunited Blink-182 is hitting the road again for the first time in five years and is making a stop at Fiddler’s Green on Sunday, September 6 with Weezer, Taking Back Sunday and Chester French. While reserved tickets, which go on sale Saturday, June 6 at…
Oh, sweet monster-movie goodness! I’m beginning to think you all are designing just for me (not that I mind). This week’s fancy-pants flier (click on it for a bigger version) pays homage to the movie-monster icons of yesteryear with a sweet mashup on the classic Bride of Frankenstein to promote…
With so many music festivals to fill up your summer and drain your pocketbook, we put together a handy rundown of Denver’s fests, in order of their appearance on your calendar. Which are you looking most forward to? What should concertgoers know about each? Use the comments section below –…
As previously reported, Tori Amos will stop at the Paramount Theatre on Tuesday, July 21, in support of her new album, Abnormally Attracted to Sin, which was released last week. Blues Traveler, who’s made an annual tradition of playing Red Rocks on July 4, returns again this year. Tickets for…
If the date on the band’s MySpace page and the press release we received from the publicist of one of the supporting acts is to be believed, blink-182’s much ballyhooed reunion tour is slated to make a stop at Fiddler’s Green on Sunday, September 6, with Weezer and Taking Back…
The All-American Rejects, Bassnectar, Goldfinger, the Red Jumpsuit Apparatus, the Spill Canvas, Single File and Meese will all be part of this year’s Channel 93.3’s Big Gig on Saturday, July 11 at Fiddler’s Green. Tickets go on sale Friday, May 22 at 10 a.m. The first 1,000 tickets are $9.33,…
Looks like we’ve got dueling fliers in this week’s pole position. Not that the one picked by our esteemed colleague this week isn’t completely worthy, because it most certainly is; it’s just that this particular one, hyping a Sunday, May 24, date at 3 Kings featuring Yerkish, Burn Sand Burn…
Seems like just yesterday I was writing about the influence of horror movies on my musical taste (okay, it was two days ago) when along comes a flier sporting an image of the kind of thing I’d expect to see chasing some hapless victim in the next Silent Hill movie…
