Archive for the ‘ Denver Music ’ Category

Amazon: have 1200+ free songs!

1200 free mp3s from Amazon No, that’s not a typo. I just downloaded about 100. You need to install the Amazon mp3 download application (free) for this to work. examples: Jeremy Enigk’s OK Bear, Mogwai’s Christmas Song, James Pants‘ This Christmas Girl [ READ MORE ]

The Coral Room DJ

What are you doing tonight? Nothing, you say? Well, why the heck aren’t you at the Coral Room listening to one of the great DJs of Denver, Mr. Daren Hahn, make magic then? Get on over to the Coral Room (3489 W 32nd Ave) in the Highlands for some eats and some sounds. [ READ MORE ]

Kick it off

Tomorrow on Friday, Aug. 28, Rhinoceropolis (3553 Brighton Blvd.) will be hosting a huge kickoff and CD release party that will allow us all to bid a farewell to Denver artists as they head out on the road. Dark Rift will be releasing their CD at the celebration, and Denver artist and recognizable face [ READ MORE ]

Just Desserts

On Saturday August 1st, Chef Shellie Kark will be finishing up her al fresco how-to cooking sessions with fresh directions on making a delicious-sounding blueberry lemon parfait. I’m no cook- I can barely microwave properly (I nearly melted one of my plates in my last effort to heat up a frozen burrito, turning said burrito [ READ MORE ]

Denver Underground

This week is a spectacular feast of local music as the Underground Music Festival kicks off for its 9th year in a row. Starting on July 23, (that’s this Thursday!), local and other underground bands will begin taking the stage in various venues around town, giving everyone a taste of their sounds. Thursday kicks [ READ MORE ]

More Ha Ha Tonka Tix!

Hey what’s this on the DenCx command center floor? Why it’s ANOTHER PAIR of Ha Ha Tonka Tickets! First one to contact us gets this Ha Ha Tonka at the Hi Dive ticket pair! Go! [ READ MORE ]

Local artists and beyond Live at Twist & Shout

I usually juts pop into Twist & Shout to grab a CD or some book about music- I forget that they offer an intimate performance space for many local and touring acts, something away from the mega-theatres and impersonal stages out there. This Sunday (July 12), the store plays host to Colorado-based folk artist Gregory [ READ MORE ]

Common boxes

Denver-based musician John Common (and his group, the Blinding Flashes of Light) recently teamed with 60 visual artists to create special artistic boxes which will house the band’s forthcoming CD. The show opened yesterday, but the Abecedarian Gallery at 910 Santa Fe, Unit #101, will be showing these creative works, some inspired by lyrics [ READ MORE ]

Ha Ha Tonka Tickets

First one to contact us gets the Ha Ha Tonka at the Hi Dive ticket pair! Go! [ READ MORE ]

Ha Ha Tonka Ticket Giveaway

Some time in the next 48 hours we’ll give a pair of tickets away to Ha Ha Tonka! Check back between now and Friday afternoon on how to win. Monday 7/27… Hi-Dive 8pm/21+ You already know this, but Rolling Stone raves they “occupy the sweet spot between country and indie, writing ornery songs with big hooks.” “Walking [ READ MORE ]

Get SPUN again!

It’s that time of the month again! Another chance for wacky, who-knows-what spontaneous fun tonight! Head on over to the Meadowlark (2701 Larimer) tonight for SPUN. It promises to be a cavalcade of acts and activities from 9PM-midnight. This month, music will be provided by Safe Boating is No Accident and Danielle Ate the Sandwich, comedians [ READ MORE ]

Breastcancer Benefit show

This Saturday, June 13, a group of local Colorado musicians will be performing at the Toad Tavern in Littleton to raise funds and awareness for the Avon Breast Cancer Foundation. All proceeds from the $6 admission ($4 if you get tickets early at the Toad Tavern site) will go to the Foundation. Here’s the [ READ MORE ]

Westword Music Fest

It’s that time of year again! Head out to the Golden Triangle all this weekend to check out the latest and greatest in local Colorado bands, as well as some big name groups making a stop for the annual Westword Music Showcase festival. Built to Spill are the headliners this year, and Cursive (popular and influential [ READ MORE ]

The Factory brings fashion, music, fun

I’m a sucker for anything Andy Warhol, so when I saw the name of this art/fashion/dance event called The Factory was happening on May 30th, I was immediately drawn in. I’m assuming it’s a tribute to the glory day’s of Warhol’s Factory, a creatively explosive place he helmed in the 1970s. Head over [ READ MORE ]

Get SPUN tonight!

Come on over to the Meadowlark Lounge to for a variety cavalcade tonight, with entertainment organized by Denver’s hostess with the mostess, Brandi Shigley of Fashion Denver. There will be comedy, art, music, jokes, drinking, and pretty much everything else you can imagine. Here’s the line up thus far: 8:00-8:50ish MUSA 8:55-9:00 Brandi intro and sillyness 9:05-9:20 [ READ MORE ]

First Friday Fashion!

Join Fashion Denver (321 W 11th Ave) to celebrate the new designers in the Fashion Denver Showroom at the FD headquarters tonight on First Friday! From 5-9PM, the new crop of style will feature work by Desire Gallegos, Kirstin Swallons, Taryn Slawson, Kate Wilkonson, Francis Roces, Lindsay Donaldson, Eliza Streete, and Ivy Bishop-McClure. There will be [ READ MORE ]

Go to SPUN for Wednesday night fun!

Get your spontaneous fun and get yourself through the week tonight at the Meadowlark (2701 Larimer St.)! Join Fashion Denver’s Brandi Shigley tonight as she hosts a medley of entertainment and activities sure to get us through the Wednesday doldrums. Tonight’s Spun is sure to be packed with some great, funny, and entertaining bits as [ READ MORE ]

Jason Webley comes to town

It always sort of amazes me how many people I run into who are singing the praises of Jason Webley. Not that the praise is unexpected, mind you, just that I had thought I’d discovered a rare, unknown musical gem all those years ago when I stumbled upon, by happenstance, his live show [ READ MORE ]

Twist & Shout Record Days!

Crummy weather be dashed… The vinyl and sounds are warm at Twist & Shout tomorrow for Record Day! A celebration of independent music stores, Twist & Shout will be celebrating music geek culture from 10AM-3PM on Saturday, with special deals and 20% off all used CDs, LPs and DVDs all day. Offering new items (some limited [ READ MORE ]

Casino night!

I love gambling- it’s basically wild hopes and dreams made manifest in a game. I also love fashion- where imagination becomes real in fabric. So tonight’s event at Bender’s Tavern combines these two great things: Gambling and fashion. Sponsored by the Denver Roller Girls, tonight’s Casino Night will feature games, music, and [ READ MORE ]

Chewbacca Bukkake hits the 3 Kings tonight

I still giggle to myself whenever I see the name Chewbacca Bukkake (if you don’t know why I’m giggling, I don’t encourage a Google search for the latter term. Or go ahead, whatever, but don’t say I didn’t warn you.) Tonight, Denver’s rock super-group (made up of members such as Johnny D. and [ READ MORE ]

A tribute to Nirvana at the hi-dive

Tomorrow (Friday April 3), Denver band Dualistics will be honoring the memory of Kurt Cobain, on this, the 15th anniversary of his death, by taking on favorite Nirvana songs in tribute at their hi-dive show. A progressive rock band with a particular affinity for Cobain and his crew, the band will be joined by [ READ MORE ]

The snow won’t stop Japan nite!

Ah, the snow may have let the kids out of school and offices downtown may be emptying (except I’m still here- what the??!) but not all is at a halt! For Gimme Gimme Pillow Toast’s annual Japan Nite, a little snow isn’t going to stop anything. The bands for the festival of all things Japanese [ READ MORE ]

b.sous at the Bluebird (with Leslie and the LY’s and Stereo Total!)

Bubbling over with cuteness and backed up with the musical talents of a mix of punk rockers, local band b.sous will be opening for Stereo Total, along with Leslie and the LY’s at the Bluebird Theatre (3317 E Colfax Avenue) on March 27 at 9PM. Named “Look Out for in 2008″ by Denver’s alternative weekly newspaper, [ READ MORE ]

Brian Jonestown Massacre! Tonight!

Seeing the Brian Jonestown Massacre at the Larimer Lounge lo-those-many-years-ago was one of the best concert experiences I’ve had (Well, two experiences. I went to their shows both nights they were there.) There was an absolute twinge of insanity in the air: From frontman Anton Newcombe, who yelled at the crowd, drifted [ READ MORE ]

Gah! Fashion zombies!

I. HATE. ZOMBIES. I am utterly, terribly, horribly afraid of them. I have nightmares, and freak out at the very word. I keep an sledgehammer/axe, machete, and bat by my front door out of fear of a day when zombies rise up (I wish I were joking about that. I may have a [ READ MORE ]