History can be mind blowing when we learn how some of the most elaborate, artistically designed buildings, churches and structures took hundreds of years and generations to construct. In this world of speed, where you drive by a building frame one day, and the next week its fully constructed with moving vans out front, our […]
Thinking back on SXSW circa 1996 when I first set my virgin sneakers onto the Austin concrete, I had no idea at that time what I should expect, but I felt like a kid in a candy store. I believe I found out about it through this cool thing called the internet or maybe it […]
As a Red state, Colorado is pretty low on the totem pole when it comes to funding the arts. That may turn around if Hickenlooper throws his Governor’s hat in the ring and makes the kind of dents in the system like he has in Denver, but in the meantime we thankfully have a crew […]
Denver will finally be getting a chance to flex its musical muscles at this year’s South By Southwest Music Conference in Austin, Texas. SXSW, a tradition for the past 18 years, fills Austin’s 50 hottest venues with the best up-and-coming acts of the year, going 24 hours a day for four days straight from March […]
This is the second volume of Denver music that proves once and for all that this town is overflowing with talent in all shapes and sizes. You’ve got the smart, wave punk from The Swayback, sexy vinyl skirt teasing from The Symptoms, a taste of German love for trees from The Czars, the euphoric and […]
eric halborg from the swayback sounds off Aside from this week’s editorial, here is Eric Halborg’s letter to the Westword after their cover feature on Semi-Freak and Uncle Nasty. He urges people to, “Read the articles. Write a letter if you are not happy with it. I just think the creative people in our town […]
MTV may have a show about the making of a band, but in the real world, musicians and artists have to make it completely on their own without the instant exposure of television or a music big wig fine-tuning their every move. After nine months of gestation, The Swayback is discovering how a band comes […]
