Live review: Los Comicos Super Hilariosos @ Orange Cat Studios

Tori Amos looked the flapper part on Wednesday at the Wells Fargo Theater. Photo by Laurie Scavo.
It’s a bad sign when an artist leaves the stage after a first encore and you find your head tilting all the way back, as if to address the house lights and beg them to please, please, please come on, thus signaling the end of the show.
And there I was at the Wells Fargo Theater on Wednesday night, head cocked back 90 degrees willing the lights to come [...]

Everything Absent or Distorted rocked the pit at the Bluebird Theater last week. Photo by Doug Beam.
There are a few things you can count on with Everything Absent or Distorted — the Denver indie rock outfit that sports as many members as the Brady Bunch (minus that useless housekeeper Alice). One is the utter crush of humanity that surrounds it. Even if a show is sparsely attended, having eight members on stage ensures a sweaty, communal vibe, the guys bouncing around like high schoolers at [...]

Juliette Lewis throws a peace sign to her fans in Denver. Photo by Laurie Scavo
Juliette Lewis is a rock star. No really, she is.
At least that’s what she wants you to believe. But as much as Lewis cries out her allegiance to rock ‘n’ roll, it’s hard to believe her. Sure, Lewis’ acting career has been quiet lately. And while some of that has to do with her touring schedule, some of that also alludes to the cooling period Lewis’ film career is going through…

Hardly hi-fi: King Khan and his bandmate BBQ prefer the lo-fi.
It was Bizarro World on Saturday night at Bender’s Tavern.
You know, it was one of those nights where everything seemed turned on its head. Problems plagued everything. People were abnormally obnoxious. And regardless of the wintry cold outside, there was a naked guy from the opening band on the stage playing tambourine with the headliner as they played a pretty rock ballad…

You can imagine what Kevin Barnes (center) would wear to a costume party.
I received my comeuppance Saturday night at the Ogden Theatre as Of Montreal played its first Denver show in support of “Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer?” I had been shouting the Athens, Ga.-based band’s praises for months, encouraging friends to see them live, buy the CD (easily one of the year’s best), send them some gift cards, whatever. “It’s going to be amazing,” I waxed, only to find myself eating those words [...]

Neil Hamburger will violate your eye and ear-holes.
– L.A.-based comedian Neil Hamburger swiftly placed the audience at the Larimer Lounge on Friday night into two categories: Those that got the joke, and those that didn’t. Those that got it reveled in the razor’s-edge humor that Hamburger excels at, clapping and hollering for their schlumpy mascot between awkwardly-timed bits. The people that didn’t either remained quiet during the frequently laugh-out-loud punchlines, or (in the cast of two massively annoying morons near the back of the club) [...]