#rhinoceropolis

[denver-heavy-metal-society]

Denver death metal legends Legion Of Death performing the song Nuclear Pestilence live at Rhinoceropolis in Denver, CO. Video courtesy of Denver Heavy Metal Society.

[mercysexlove]

Lil Peep

i didnt really discover peep until after he died. my first experience was watching the lil kennedy music video and learning about rhinoceropolis while i was really drunk at a friends house. i spent the next couple days at his house just getting drunk and listening to all peeps songs. i remember right off the bat my fav songs were lil kennedy, belgium, runaway, fingers. i listened to peep a lot the next few months and ended up going to nyc with that friend, so we visited the house he lived in in long island

was such a surreal experience, knowing hes walked in the same spot that im standing, looking at a window that he has looked out of while making one of my favorite songs ever

[yamamiya]

令和５年の憂鬱② ワケワカメの世界

Midwife – Sickworld Midwife is the project of Madeline Johnston, a self taught multi-instrumentalist and recording engineer, currently based in Southern New Mexico by way of Denver, Colorado, where she spent the last decade+ developing her sound and community. Midwife began while Madeline was a resident of the beloved/infamous DIY space Rhinoceropolis in 2014. She has released three albums with…

[tilde44]

Pedestrian Deposit

Ultra Metal 2 - Rhinoceropolis - Denver - 11/9/19

[manicpixievideovixen]

Equine #denvercolorado #equine #rhinoceropolis #guitarnoise #hollywood_heartthrobs (at Rhinoceropolis) https://www.instagram.com/p/B4Y51yGJGzn/?igshid=b14uu1qttyu8

[sybyr]

performing in denver (last year show)

[titwrench]

TITWRENCH is back! Let's celebrate winter solstice and kick off a year of fundraising for the 10th Edition Titwrench Festival, happening in Fall 2020!

Join us for a special Winter Solstice SURFACING - our monthly showcase featuring new, emerging and daring artists!

Saturday, December 21st 2019

Location: Rhinoceropolis 3551 Brighton Blvd, Denver, CO, 80216

Music starts at 800pm and goes til midnight or a little later

All ages welcome. $10 suggested donation.

Facebook event invite here - flyer artwork by Madeline Johnston

Musical guests include:

MIRROR OF TRUTH (Esmé Patterson solo project) Singer/songwriter Esme Patterson is a founding member of the Denver-based indie folk group Paper Bird. Growing up in nearby Boulder, Colorado, she and her sister, and bandmate, Genevieve Patterson, grew up listening to old R&B records, coming to folk and Americana music later on. In her new solo future folk project, Esmé explores her personal evolution with soulful, poignant, thoughtfully constructed music, highlighted with moments of wry humor and painful introspection. EA$$IDE LUPITA Korryne aka Ko Ko La aka EA$$IDELUPITA performs and produces in R A R E B Y R D $, a Sonic Collective of MCs, beatmakers, and instrumental magicians bringing bangers to the city and beyond. EA$$IDELUPITA is your favorite DJ’s favorite DJ. She brings hoodrat jams to the kind folks who need to feed the hoodrat within. BELL MINE Bell Mine is a Denver dark ethereal synth pop solo act, playing music generally described as frenetic energy heavily colored with unresolved issues. Bell Mine takes corporeal form, in order to lean into solar bursts, shoot columns of air into places that have long been shuttered, and to bring you sound. $ADDY Kahoku Williams creates a driving mixture of hardstyle and industrial techno.

Local vendors: The Office of BS will be joining us with their rad goods and designs! Oh So Cuticle will also be setting up a portable nail salon, offering fun, fast, and inexpensive acrylics, polishes, and manicures! -----

TITWRENCH is a creative platform and organization that is 100% volunteer-organized and operated, founded in 2008.

We are dedicated to centering womxn and LGBTQIA+ artists on our stages and in our programs, centering performers and musicians pushing the boundaries of genre and form. Everyone is welcome to participate!

ACCESSIBILITY INFO  ****

- Enter venue through the alley. - There is a ramp at the entry and the floors are even throughout. - Two wheelchair-accessible bathrooms are on site. - Seating is limited to a couch and some chairs. - Music will be loud - bring ear plugs - Contact us at titwrench(at)gmail(dot)com with further questions or message our FB page.

We'll be throwing Surfacing events almost every month leading up to **TITWRENCH 2020** 

Wanna get involved? Email us titwrench (at) gmail (dot) com ♥

[dreampop97]

American Grandma at Rhinoceropolis 

by Elle Carroll 

[camphorfreya]

I went to Rhinoceropolis in 2008 and took a bunch of pictures idk what happened to them though.

[daggerzine]

Lots of lists! DAGGER’s favorites of 2019 (and more lists to come)

TIM’S LISTS

MY 20 FAVORITE  RECORDS OF 2019  (in no particular order)

Jeanines- S/t (Slumberland)

Purple Mountains- S/T (Drag City)

Monnone Alone- Summer of the Mosquito (Lost & Lonesome)

Mick Trouble – Here’s the Mick Trouble LP (Emotional Response)

Pernice Brothers-   Spread the Feeling (Ashmont)

The Resonars- No Exit (Trouble in Mind)

Rocket 808- S/T (12XU)

Thigh Master- Now For Example (Goner)

Seablite- Grass Stains and Novacaine (Emotional Response)

Ex Hex- It’s Real (Merge)

Versus – Ex Voto (Ernest Jenning Record Co)

Nots- 3 (Goner)

Rocketship- Thanks To You (Darla)

Dream Syndicate- These Times (Anti)  

The Paranoid Style – A Goddamn Impossible Way of Life (Bar None)

Business of Dreams- Ripe for Anarchy (Slumberland)

The Safes- Winning Combination (Bickerton Records)

The Gotobeds- Debt Begins at 30 (Sub Pop)

The Black Watch- Magic Johnson (ATOM Records)

Comet Gain- Fireraisers Forever!  (Tapete)

  WAIT! HERE’S 20 MORE!

Vivian Girls- Memory (Polyvinyl)

Bob Mould- Sunshine Rock (Merge)

Modern Nature- How To Live (Bella Union)

Robert Forster- Inferno (Tapete’)

David Kilgour- Bobbie’s a Girl  (Merge)

Piroshka- Brickbat (Bella Union)

The Armoires- Zibaldone (Big Stir Records)

Dark Blue- Victory is Rated (12XU)

The Persian Leaps- Electrical Living (Land Ski Records)

Sasha Bell- Love Is Alright (Both Sides Now)

Frankie Cosmos- Close It Quietly (Sub Pop)

USA/Mexico- Matamoros (12XU)

Moving Targets- Wires (Boss Tuneage)

Red Sleeping Beauty- Stockholm (Matinee)

Redd Kross- Beyond the Door (Merge)

The Treasures of Mexico- Everything Sparks Joy (Shelflife)

In Deed- Everest  (Big Stir Records)

The Catenary Wires- Til the Morning (Tapete)

Foxhall Stacks-  The Coming Collapse (Snappy Little Numbers)

The Vandoliers- Forever (Bloodshot)

  WAIT!! EVEN 20 MORE…

Tiny Ruins- Olympic Girls (Bada Bing!)

Bruce Springsteen- Western Stars  (Columbia/ Sony)

Sebadoh- Act Surprised (Dangerbird) 

Le Superhomard- Meadow Lane park (Elefant)

James Clarke Five- Parlour Sounds (The Beautiful Music) 

The Boys with the Perpetual Nervousness – Dead Calm (Pretty Olivia)

Tennis Club- Pink (Elefant)

Parsnip- When the Tree Bears Fruit (Trouble in Mind)

The Muffs- No Holiday (Omnivore)

The Kyle Sowashes-  I Don’t Know What To Tell You (Anyway Records)

The Vapour Trails- See You In the Next World (Futureman Records)

Jason Hawk Harris- Love and the Dark  (Bloodshot)

Trip Wire- Once & Always (Big Stir Records)

Lloyd Cole- Guesswork (EAR Music)

Mike Krol- Power Chords (Merge)

Bubblegum Lemonade- Desperately Seeking Sunshine (Matinee)

The Silent Boys- By the Light of the Moon (Bossy Lil Thing Records)

The Pearlfishers- Love and Other Hopeless Things (Marina)

Spray Paint- Into the Country (12XU)

The Ocean Blue-  Kings and Queens/ Knave and Thieves (Korda)

  I also really enjoyed records by……Unhappy Fly, I Was a King, The Hussy, 75 Dollar Bill, Snail Mail, Apex Manor, Mike Gale, Rob Laufer, Richard X, Heyman, Skull Practitioners, Todd Herfindal, Young Guv, New Pornographers, Scott Gagner, The Memory Fades, Mudhoney, The Well Wishers, Golden Pelicans, The Reds, Pinks and Purples, Lucille Furs, The Umbrella Puzzles, Westkust , Mondello , Johnny Couch, Weyes Blood, Spearmint, Corridor, Joy Cleaner, Elva, Possible Humans, Blue Jeans,  the BVs, etc .etc.

 COLLECTIONS/ REISSUES

The Springfields- Singles, 1986-1991 (Slumberland)

The Victims- S/T (In the Red)

Dream Syndicate-  The Days of Wine and Roses (Fire)

Stephen Duffy- I Love My Friends (Needle Mythology)

Human Switchboard- Who’s Landing in my Hangar (Fat Possum)

The Dum Dum Boys- Let There Be Noise (In the red)

Soul Asylum- Made to be Broken & While You Were Out  (Omnivore)

Holiday Flyer- The Rainbow Confection & Try Not To Worry (Darla)

Metz- Automat (Sub Pop)

The Toms- The 1970 Sessions (Futureman Records)

SOME LISTS BY DINA HORNREICH

In a not-so comprehensive (mostly desultory) manner I have thrown this list of current zeitgeisty kinds of things that I encountered in one way or another that had various compelling bits, chunks, and other substantial nuggets (if not their complete entirety) of a musical persuasion that provided something engaging, amusing, enlightening, challenging, discordant, or otherwise worthwhile for my freaky mind, body, and soul to chew on in this last year of 2019. There are always tons and tons of things that I missed and/or never got to (but always meant to) so not exhaustive whatsoever. More a reflection of where I’ve been these days and how I’ve gotten here... (and will try to remain, if circumstances allow.)

 Some Recorded Albums:

●     Sneaks: Highway Hypnosis (Merge)

●     The World: Reddish (Microminiature)

●     Sacred Paws: Run Around the Sun (Merge)

●     Trash Kit: Horizon (Upset the Rhythm)

●     A-WA: Bayti Fi Rasi (BMG)

●     Sleater-Kinney: The Center Won’t Hold (Mom + Pop)

●     Ex Hex: It’s Real (Merge)

●     Angel Olsen: All Mirrors (Jagjaguwar)

●     Vagabon: s/t (Nonesuch)

●     GRLwood: I Sold My Soul to the Devil When I Was 12 (sonaBLAST!)

●     Girl Friday: Fashion Conman EP (Hardly Art)

●     Tacocat: This Mess is a Place (Sub Pop)

●     Karen O/Danger Mouse: Lux Prima (BMG)

●     Cherry Glazerr: Stuffed and Ready (Secretly Canadian)

●     Habibi: Come My Habibi single (Muddguts)

●     Haim: Hallelujah EP (Columbia)

●     Grimes: “We Appreciate Power”/”Pretty Dark” demo/”4AEM”/”Violence”/”So Heavy I Fell Through The Earth” various pre-album release singles (4AD)

●     Madame Gandhi: Visions EP - Extended Versions (self-released?)

●     Chai: PUNK (Burger)

●     Kero Kero Bonito: Civilisation I single (Polyvinyl)

●     Solange: When I Get Home (Columbia)

●     UT: Conviction reissue (Mute)

 Some Live Performances (mostly in Denver, CO):

●     Hadgaba/Hal Aqua and the Lost Tribe (Denver Klezfest 2019 at Mercury Cafe)

●     Jonathan Richman (Swallow Hill)

●     Kristen Hersh (Hi Dive)

●     Ex Hex/Moaning (Bluebird)

●     Sleater-Kinney/Joseph Keckler (Ogden)

●     Angel Olsen/Vagabon (Gothic)

●     Holygram (Oriental)

●     Cellista (Mercury Cafe)

●     The Beths/Girl Friday (Globe)

●     GRLwood (Globe)

●     Tacocat/Paranoyds (Larimer)

●     Short Shorts/Potty Mouth (Lost Lake)

●     Nots (Lost Lake)

●     Spiritualized (Gothic)

●     Breezy Porticos (Chez Hinely)

●     Church Fire/Glitter Vomit (Rhinoceropolis)

●     FemmeFest 2019: Rare Byrds (Museum of Contemporary Art Denver)

●     Love Languages/Teenage Fanclub (Bluebird)

●     Girls Rock Denver Showcase 2019 (Summit Music Hall)

●     Vivien Goldman (in-store at Rough Trade Records NYC)

●     Imperial Teen (in-store at Twist’n Shout Records)

 Some Books:

●     Women Who Rock by Evelyn McDonnell

●     Dayglo: Poly Styrene by Celeste Bell and Zoe Howe

●     Revenge of the She-Punks by Vivien Goldman

●     Why Karen Carpenter Matters by Karen Tongson

●     Hardcore Anxiety: A Graphic Guide to Punk Rock and Mental Health by Reid Chancellor

●     Liz Phair: Horror Stories (memoir)

●     Frame of Mind: Punk Photos and Essays From Washington DC (and Beyond) 1997-2017 by Antonia Tricarico

●     Girl in a Girl Band by Malia James

 Some Film/TV (if not content relevant entirely, for its soundtrack minimally):

●     Judy (BBC Films)

●     Transparent (Amazon Series, Season 5/Musical Finale)

●     Dolemite is My Name (Netflix Original Film)

●     2 Dope Queens (HBO Season 2, Episode 3)

●     Trinkets (Netflix Series, Season 1)

●     Blinded by the Light (New Line Cinema)

●     Shrill (Hulu Series, Season 1)

●     The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel (Amazon Series, Season 3)

●     Big Mouth (Netflix Series, Season 3)

●     A Handmaid’s Tale (Hulu Series, Season 3)

●     GLOW (Netflix Series, Season 3)

●     Orange is the New Black (Netflix Series, Season 7)

 Some Radio/Podcast Outlets:

●     She’s A Punk (podcast)

●     Indie 102.3 FM (local station formerly Open Air CPR)

●     KGNU 1390 AM (local station)

●     Radio 1190AM KVCU (local station)

 And to go full circle around in the weird miasmic disorientations of blogs/zines, and every tool in between...I could mention the writers at Bust, Bitch, Pitchfork, even… DAGGER. But credit for discoverability also includes the vending platforms of Spotify/Bandcamp/Apple Music/Soundcloud themselves (and their haunted algorithms) as well as musicians’ various social media counterparts (which may or may not include their publicists) on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, etc. (and where does YouTube fit in exactly?) which means the industry will eventually eat itself. Happy New Year, ladies and germs. Who knows what the next decade will bring? Whatever it may be, let it be progress rather than random changes for no apparently good reasons.

[kimkimberhelen]

Midwife - Anyone Can Play Guitar (Official Audio) 2020

Denver musician Madeline Johnston records what she calls “heaven metal” under the name Midwife. Her album Forever, out in April via the Flenser, is dedicated to Colin Ward, her former roommate at Denver DIY space Rhinoceropolis, who died in 2018. In a press release, Johnston explains, “He was my roommate and was the embodiment of that place in a lot of ways. We became really close friends there. I was always learning so much from him, about life and being an artist. He was an amazing teacher and friend to me.”

[russiantsarlag]

Here I go again. Heading out on the road with my good friend Dan Talbot. Playing some haggard, echo-ed out ‘pop’ songs. Peddling my internal ramblings on paper, vinyl, and audio/video cassette. Does this mean I’m still ‘punk’? Hardly. I can’t stand all that screaming. I’m not angry, just lost. 

5/24 - Philadelphia, PA @ Space 1026

5/25 - Pittsburgh, PA @ Collision

5/26 - Columbus, OH @ Dirty Dungarees

5/27 - Chicago, IL @ Cafe Mustache

5/28 - Milwaukee, WI @ Quarters

5/30 - Iowa City, IA @ The Egg Sac

5/31 - Minneapolis, MN @ VFW

6/4 - Seattle, WA @ Lo Fi

6/5 - Portland, OR @ Floating World Comics (book event)

6/5 - Portland, OR @ Seizure Palace

6/7 - Oakland, CA @ Dildo Factory

6/8 - San Francisco @ ATA (early show)

6/9 - Los Angeles, CA @ Handbag Factory

6/10 - Los Angeles, CA @ Family (book event)

6/11 - Phoenix, AZ @ Trunk Space

6/12 - Santa Fe, NM @ Etiquette

6/14 - Denver, CO @ Rhinoceropolis

6/15 - Kansas City, MO @ Stray Cat Film Center (music/video screening)

6/16 - St. Louis, MO @ Chill Dog Cove

6/17 - Nashville, TN @ Betty’s

6/18 - Knoxville, TN @ The Pilot Light

6/19 - Chapel Hill, NC @ The Nightlight

6/20 - Baltimore, MD @ Aquarium

6/21 - Brooklyn, NY @ Desert Island (book event)

6/22 - Brooklyn, NY @ Bohemian Grove

[mdrngoth]

Hooray for new PICTUREPLANE!

Liner notes:

For his sixth album as Pictureplane, Travis Egedy owns the identity that's been his to claim all along: Degenerate. Via music, painting, fashion, and DIY events that combine all three, he's spent a decade investigating the esoteric, embracing the paranormal, and otherwise riding for the lunatic fringe. Now, Degenerate finds our anti-hero standing tall on the periphery of polite society, addressing his fellow outsiders over a booming soundtrack that merges electronic body music, industrial hip-hop, gauzy '90s New Age, and gothic darkwave. If 2015's Technomancer confronted the ways our lives are merging with external technological forces, this album moves inward, examining how pain can cause the soul to either atrophy or—in Egedy's case—thrive. 

We open on a dystopia that's oddly familiar. The squelching synth of "Pit Viper" surges forth like venom catching a pulse as Egedy sings, "I'm lurking for something to get my mind off nothing / Abuse of power comes as no surprise, world on fire, an epitaph for a dying empire." The next scene is no less unsettling as "Gang Stalker" serves up pure paranoia in both message and its relentless, vintage-NIN-evoking beat. Later, "Disasters of War," named after the grisly Francisco Goya print series, depicts disconnect in our violent world: "We sit pretty with our empathy, black-painted shells, youth cast under a spell." But Degenerate soon reveals alternate paths through the murk. We find solidarity on "Sex Trigger (Burn in Heaven)," where Goth Boi Clique founder Wicca Phase Springs Eternal trades lines with Egedy over a beautifully burnt soundscape. And with "BDSM," there's escape—into a soft-focus fantasy of whips, synths, discipline, and drums. 

Pain was a recurring theme in the two-plus years that Egedy made Degenerate in his Brooklyn garage studio. Even as he honed his dark art, embracing both new tech (FL Studio, finally) and old toys (he found the Yamaha keyboard he made his first beats on, via eBay), he saw parts of the DIY community that inspired that art unravel in terrible ways. Oakland's Ghost Ship fire not only took people Egedy knew, it led to the hostile police shutdown of the DIY space he came up in, Denver's Rhinoceropolis. That loss, in turn, factored into the suicide of dear scene compatriot Colin Ward—the kaleidoscopic, breakbeat-driven "Color Spectrum (Tokyo Drift)," which features emo-trap upstart smrtdeath, is a tribute to his magical spirt. Another friend passed too: GBC's shining star Lil Peep, all of which underscored the adversity that artists face in America's rapidly gentrifying cities, from economic hardship to lack of access to safe spaces and health services. 

Degenerate does mourn, getting lost in the crystalline jungle of "Obsidian Blade" and blissing out amid echoing keys in "Intoxicate," but it doesn't acquiesce. In defending his beloved culture online, Egedy became a target for alt-right trolls who'd call his dead colleagues "degenerates"—the same term the Nazis used to debase abstract artists. On this album's thumping title track, he reclaims the word as a badge of honor, something to distinguish truth-seekers from repressed squares. One song later, he's threatening to unleash freaks everywhere over the blown-out rap swagger of "Gatecrasher." And by the bleakly banging closer "White Flowers," Egedy's become some kind of renegade goth warrior: "My blood is like a glacier, living my life on a razor / I'm so erratic, wearing black and white like TV static." In the end, all that radical individualism is about inclusion: we're an entire race of degenerates waiting for the right moment to show our stripes.

[bizarreaudioarts]

John Wiese @ Rhinoceropolis

[mostlysignssomeportents]

#1yrago 4chan's trumpist trolls are exploiting the Ghost Ship fire to narc out other DIY venues

A thread on 4chan's trollish /pol/ board has organized trumpist white-supremacist/alt-right types to find unlicensed venues and spaces and narc them out to city authorities in a bid to shut them down, because they serve as "open hotbeds of liberal radicalism and degeneracy...These places hold Black Lives Matter meetings. These places plan protests that disrupt our cities. These places illegally house our enemies."

The campaign is exploiting the Oakland Ghost Ship fire, which has given many cities the political appetite to shut down unlicensed spaces. The campaign incorporates a lot of neo-Nazi in-jokes (they call themselves the Right Wing Safety Squad, or "SS" for short), and ties itself to trumpism, coopting "Make America Great Again" as "Make America Safe Again."

The group takes credit for the closure of seven spaces in the US so far, including Baltimore's Bell Foundry, Denver's Rhinoceropolis, and Nashville's Glass Menage. It's not clear what role, if any, they played in this closure.

The Ghost Ship fire was the result of many overlapping failures, but primary among them is the soaring rents in American cities, which have made it harder than ever for marginal communities and artists to scrape by. The closure of dance venues and art co-ops doesn't end dance and art -- but it does push it into progressively less safe, more off-the-books sites.

https://boingboing.net/2017/01/05/4chans-trumpist-trolls-are-e.html

[manicpixievideovixen]

John Gross #rhinoceropolis #denvercolorado #denvernoise #hollywood_heartthrobs #hotgirlsummer #wintervacation (at Rhinoceropolis) https://www.instagram.com/p/B4ZFF_aJ0bJ/?igshid=wbspmllsihbe