Most Popular
-
A Cold Case Frozen in Time
Until this cold case heats up, Sharon Skiba is lost in limbo.
-
CU Hires Three Pulitzer Winners
Some of newspapering's best and brightest are trading journalism for academia — including three Pulitzer winners hired at CU.
-
Sazza
If you must go for gourmet pizza, go to Sazza.
-
Arapahoe County DA Charges Death-Penalty Fees to the State
How does DA Carol Chambers beat the high cost of a death-penalty prosecution? By billing the prison system.
-
Crepes ’n Crepes
French food is no flash in the pan.
-
A Cold Case Frozen in Time (10)
Until this cold case heats up, Sharon Skiba is lost in limbo.
-
Con Artist Gives Funny Cause for Pregnant Pause (7)
Would you pay $20 to get a scam artist off your front porch?
-
Big Trouble (8)
Gary Haney was living the high life until meth took him down.
-
To the Max (5)
A publicity-hungry student shows how easy it is to become a media darling -- with a little help from CU.
-
The Magnet Mafia Sticks to Street Art (5)
Matt Feeney and Harrison Nealey have a new way for artists to stick it to the city.
-
Bad Luck City Haunts Denver
These folks like their Americana dark.
-
Planes Mistaken for Stars Makes Its Final Approach
Capturing the final days of one of Denver’s most vital bands.
-
George Porter Is Still Funkin'
This Funky Meters bassist has become a jam icon for a new generation.
-
Cue the Cricket
One of Denver’s most storied stages may soon be silenced.
-
Boulder Gets a New Elixir
The Purple Martini’s owner opens a club in the People’s Republic.
-
Barfly Taxonomy: The Red-Cheeked False Bukowski
12:28PM 03/10/08 -
Westword Now Exhibit A in Death Penalty Tussle
11:21AM 03/10/08 -
Alan Parsons as Living History and Other Assorted Goodies
11:36AM 03/10/08 -
Friday Rap-Up: Basementalism, Hip-Hop 4 Obama, 50 Cent, Fat Joe, Juvenile
02:35PM 03/07/08 -
Look of the Day - Irish Gangster
11:41AM 03/07/08 -
Project Runway Finale Tonight
02:54PM 03/05/08 -
Delegating Denver #34 of 56: New Jersey
12:03PM 03/10/08 -
Pundit Watch: Paul Begala
04:45PM 03/07/08
What we are writing about
- affordable housing
- Amy Ryan
- Colorado Rockies
- Color as Field
- Corridor 44
- David McSwane
- Democratic National...
- Denver Post
- Dinger
- Gates Rubber Company
- Glenn Morris
- Guitar Hero
- Hillary Clinton
- Ian Kleinman
- John Hickenlooper
- Justin Jahn
- Knocked Up
- Mezcal
- molecular gastronomy
- No Country for Old Men
- Philip Seymour Hoffman
- Rocky Mountain News
- Samantha Morton
- Sea Wolf
- Stapleton
- Steve Horner
- There Will Be Blood
- Tom Waits
- Vinyl
- Wii
Recent Articles By Terry Sawyer
-
The Mooney Suzuki
Have Mercy
Elixia Records -
Welcome
Sirs
Fat Cat -
Chk Chk Chk (!!!)
Myth Takes
Warp Records -
Macromantics
Moments in Movement
Kill Rock Stars -
Of Montreal
Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer?
Polyvinyl
National Features
-
Houston Press
"It Was Like an Armageddon Movie"
For days after Hurricane Rita, a Texas prison was hell on earth.
By Chris Vogel -
SF Weekly
The Candidate
Our columnist knows Ralph Nader's running mate all too well.
By Matt Smith -
The Pitch
How Not To Be a Rap Star
First of all, lay off the Ecstasy.
By Nadia Pflaum -
Village Voice
Project Runaway
What becomes a gossip columnist most?
By Michael Musto
Subject(s): Various Artists
In this contrarian era, where post-punk has rebirthed disco, it seems that every self-respecting band needs a "Hot Chip" remix. Frankly, it's a bit shocking that Gene Simmons hasn't seen fit to issue a Tiga reworking of "Christine Sixteen." For fans of the DFA sound, where rock and BPMs collide, Plant Music takes obscure acts like Don Cash and other bands such as Rhinocerose -- known primarily for its great iPod commercial moments -- and tosses them into the free-for-all zone. The gathered artists borrow glam guitars or even a fuzz-scuzz Sonic Youth-esque riff and bounce them alongside beats as far apart as Dr. Dre and Gary Numan. Narrowness never afflicts this disc, even though some songs simply don't work -- like DJ Wool's gothier shade of Sneaker Pimps' "Friend Crush." Artfully culled from the edges, Plant Music is a dance-music compilation that's too clever, gritty and dissonant for the pop charts, but still thick with heavy-petting grooves.
