thank your parents for the dna

Sojourned into denver today for the Westword Music Showcase. Westword is essentially the same as the Loaf except it's for, yep you guessed it - denver. It was a locals only version (bands & dj's) of something like the Midtown Music Fest, except scattered across a few blocks in various clubs with one outdoor stage area. They touted it with 2 out of town 'headliners' as they always do, this time dj jazzy jeff & mark "cream of wheat" farina headlining the outdoor stage.

Got there Justin Time for the Hot IQ's (formerly The Royal We) set, whom is one of my fave local acts - you have to appreciate fetching female drummers of asian descent that can wail on the skins, you really do. Besides playing one of the all time best theme songs, they also covered one of my personal faves, "Web in Front" by the allmighty Archers of Loaf. After their set, we made tracks over to Vinyl to catch some more local talent on the main floor (with a brand new custom JBL boomin-type system). Being that it was only 6-8pm that we were there, it had that 6-8am kind of vibe to it, crowd wise. Oh yeah that andthe 1/2 pint of vodka with us to spruce up our 'red bulls on the rocks' we had been ordering - straight ghetto fab, if I do say so. I don't get out much at all in the denver club scene so it was interesting to a put a sound and face to some names I've seen promoted herr & therr (miss audry - cool casual techy house; wyatt erp - driving thumpy house; ivy - mundane breaks). After an unfortunate no show by the wheatiest of cream, we made tracks back to boulder whilst the night was still young, for tomorrow we celebrate lauren's 23rd...

-kp-

p.s. This post was brought to you by the sweet intonations of It's Tomorrow Already by a certain Irresistable Force and Speed Limt 140+ volume 5.