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Firestarters del Desmadre : a Molotov Cocktail
By MissReportedSomewhere in the middle of the hot desert between Tucson, Arizona and San Diego, California, a tour bus carries a…
Weaving through Denver Music, Art, Culture, and Life
Somewhere in the middle of the hot desert between Tucson, Arizona and San Diego, California, a tour bus carries a…
DenverThread’s guide to where you should be and what you should be seeing – and, of course, hearing – for…
Day one’s in the books, and it looks as if the 11th Annual UMS is off to a roarin’ start!
But – if you thought last Thursday night’s activities were brilliant, epic, miraculous – or tragic, melancholy, maudlin – hold on to your pants. The momentum’s just beginning!
Friday is the New Black
Here are our toppers for Friday, July 22 – and we’re happy to say that it was a damned tough job boiling the lineup down! The first few are our predictions for Friday night’s owners of the UMS. Scroll on down for a listing of the rest of our recommendations, in chronological order (still just a fraction of all the action!).
Friday’s UMS Lineup is owned by …
Colourmusic –
3 Kings Tavern – Sailor Jerry Stage @11PM
Oklahoma seems to be fertile ground for a sort of bombastic optimism. Or maybe it’s a heightened sense of existentialism that leads artists to just say “Fuck it! I’m partying!” And then watch everything in their lives happily begin to fall into place. It’s chaos at its most beautifully complex, and most hilariously sublime.
Cue Colourmusic.
‘Nuff said. Go see them.
SRSLY.
Lead singer Valient Himself, as wild and provocative a character as you’re likely to find across the metal spectrum, carried both the crowd and the band with his over-the-top antics and supercharged metabolism, screaming to the head-banging mosh pit about conspiracies behind the government, endless partying and the eventual rise of an army of partially robotic and undead police, destined to take over the state if we don’t maintain a vigilant watch every second.
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