 Hey all - Lotsa new stuff this week, so I'm just gonna get right to it! Coming up TONIGHT (Friday Oct. 17th) we've got a kick-ass listening party we're all excited about here and think you will be too! Kicking off at 5PM we'll be checking out the new Tame Impala album Deadbeat — their first new album in five years! The record is out now on both CD and indie exclusive clear vinyl 2LP set. To join in our listening party there's no need to RSVP, just come on down and join other fans, get some of the limited free stuff we've got (first come, first served!), and enjoy the music. We'll be starting the record a little after 5, so see ya there! And then next Thursday Oct. 23rd we're doing it again with the new Brandi Carlile album Returning To Myself. This one's an early release party — album is out Friday 10/24 — so you can hear it first here (and pre-order your copy for pickup Friday HERE. But Thursday night you can hear the whole album along with other fans, get some free stuff while supplies last and have a good time overall. As always, we'll kick things off just a little past 5 PM, and there's no need to RSVP — just come on down and have fun! Then that Saturday, Oct. 25th Twist will join a bunch of other businesses along this part of Colfax for this year's annual Boo and Brew — a FREE family-friendly bit of fun on Colfax from 1PM — 4PM featuring Candy, Crafts, Live music, Haunted houses, Face painting, Photo-bombing clowns, Treats, and more! Bring the kids (and pets!) on down to show off their costumes and we'll have treats for them! Read more about the event HERE and we'll see you there. Then the next week, on Halloween Friday, we return to our listening party events with a listening party and costume contest for the new Florence & the Machine album Everybody Scream. The label is sending us the prizes and giveaway shwag, but we'll have the music and the space for fans to come down and enjoy the new record. As usual, no need to RSVP, just come on down, and we'll kick off the music right around 5PM! And rather than inundate you with info about RSD Black Friday every week here, we've moved all the critical info HERE, so whether you need a refresher on how RSD events work or you're new to attending them at our store and want to know the fundamentals, check out the page. And as always, feel free to give us a call with any further questions you have outside of this FAQ! And as always, be sure to stay tuned to this space for updates about Black Friday and any other upcoming events. We also want to make sure you know that we still have a few service fee-free tickets for sale to the upcoming Itchy-O Hallowmass shows at the Summit Music Hall on Halloween (Friday Oct. 31st) and Saturday Nov. 1st. Their Halloween shows are always spectacular, and well worth checking out whether you've seen them a dozen times or never seen them, so score your tix while we've got 'em! And as Denver keeps changing, the ongoing BRT Bus Line construction project has moved even further east on the Colfax Corridor and we've got this little page on our website HERE that will house all the latest information about what's happening and provide links to many of our favorite local business neighbors on this stretch of Colfax — and it's now newly expanded past Colorado Blvd to keep up with the construction. Please make an extra effort to support all these local businesses during this construction project to ensure that Colfax keep its always-unique and fascinating flair! We're back to boom times this week in both newly released albums and reissues of note; here's what's new and cool this week — read on! Genre-bending pop innovator Ashnikko drops Smoochies on CD and yellow vinyl LP, continuing her mix of hyperpop attitude and sly humor; London trio Bar Italia follow up a string of acclaimed releases with Some Like It Hot on CD and indie exclusive blue vinyl LP; Montreal folk-rockers The Barr Brothers share Let It Hiss on CD and indie exclusive purple vinyl LP; banjo great Alison Brown joins comedian-banjoist Steve Martin for Safe, Sensible and Sane on CD and LP, merging virtuosity and wit; North Mississippi Allstars guitarist Luther Dickinson releases Dead Blues Vol. 1 on CD and LP, his first solo outing in years; Pretenders frontwoman Chrissie Hynde offers Duets Special on CD and LP, pairing her unmistakable voice with a host of guests; rising art-pop band The Last Dinner Party deliver their sophomore effort From the Pyre on CD and indie exclusive pink vinyl LP; jazz drummer and producer Makaya McCraven collects four of his recent EPs on Off the Record, out on CD and LP; Icelandic alt-pop favorites Of Monsters and Men return with All Is Love and Pain in the Mouse Parade on CD and LP; Minneapolis synth-pop group Poliça issue Dreams Go on CD and indie exclusive red vinyl LP; British duo the Ruen Brothers release Awooo on CD and a limited indie exclusive autographed LP; Nashville storyteller Todd Snider rolls out High, Lonesome and Then Some on CD and LP; and country hitmaker Chris Young shares I Didn't Come Here to Leave on a limited autographed CD and green vinyl LP.  And in this week's reissues and archival releases, it's yet another sweet batch of goodies; experimental pop collective Animal Collective celebrate 20 years of Feels with deluxe CD and clear purple vinyl editions; metal pioneers Black Sabbath revisit their classic compilation We Sold Our Soul for Rock 'N' Roll on clear green Rocktober vinyl; Japanese heavy legends Boris mark the 20th anniversaries of Dronevil — Example and Pink, both returning on LP with new color variants; Fleetwood Mac's Bare Trees, a gem from their pre-Buckingham/Nicks years featuring Bob Welch's original version of “Sentimental Lady,” gets a Rhino Reserve LP reissue; Foo Fighters' self-titled 1995 debut is back on indie exclusive blue vinyl LP; Ghost reissue their 2015 album Meliora on indie exclusive “Surge” vinyl (an opaque, marbled blue-green variant fitting their spectral aesthetic); the Blue Note Classic Vinyl Series offers two heavyweights — Grant Green's Solid, a 1964 session with Elvin Jones and McCoy Tyner first released in 1979, and Elvin Jones' Puttin' It Together with Jimmy Garrison and Joe Farrell from 1968; crooner Chris Isaak's Forever Blue returns on LP; Morphine's smoky 1992 debut Good gets a Rocktober green vinyl reissue; The Mountain Goats bring back their confessional 2005 classic The Sunset Tree on CD and orange vinyl LP; glam-punk progenitors New York Dolls reissue Cuz I Sez So on Rocktober red vinyl LP; songwriter Randy Newman's Trouble in Paradise, featuring “I Love L.A.”, returns as an expanded CD and Rhino Reserve LP; alt-rock outfit Porno for Pyros' self-titled debut is revived via Rhino Reserve LP; R.E.M.'s earliest single Radio Free Europe is reissued as a limited indie exclusive 10-inch red vinyl EP; German hard-rock titans Scorpions celebrate 60 years together with From the First Sting on CD and LP; cult UK electronic act Seefeel's Pure Impure gets a long-awaited LP reissue; blues icon Muddy Waters' The Best of Muddy Waters joins the Chess 75 Series on LP; The Weeknd's Beauty Behind the Madness celebrates its 10th anniversary on clear vinyl LP; and prog rock mainstays Yes reissue 90125 on Rhino Reserve LP alongside their 1987 follow-up Big Generator on Rocktober orange vinyl LP. This week home video releases are relatively mellow, but we've got some gems. Here's what's out this week: David Gilmour has released both DVD and Blu-ray sets of Live at the Circus Maximus, documenting a 2024 concert at the legendary Roman location; also out on DVD and Blu-ray this week is the hit horror film Weapons. In Blu-ray, we've got the Radiance Films box set Daiei Gothic Vol. 2: Japanese Ghost Stories (box set includes the films: The Demon Of Mount Oe, The Haunted Castle, and The Ghost Of Kasane Swamp), the excellent sci-fi/drama School in the Crosshairs from director Nobuhiko Obayashi (House), and the self-explanatory The Last Drive-In With Joe Bob Briggs: Mayhem/Suitable Flesh Double Feature. And out this week in 4K UHD/Blu-ray combo packages, we have two horror films from Severin Films — the 2015 Turkish sensation Baskin, and the 1972 British horror anthology Asylum — the Criterion Collection combo release of the melancholy 1960 French George Franju horror shocker Eyes Without A Face (and its still disturbing and cringe-worthy scene — if you haven't seen it yet you'll know exactly which one I mean when you see it), and Kino Cult brings us the notorious exploitation film Ilsa: She Wolf of the SS.  Outside the store, our pals at the Sie Film center next door are deep into their October Sie/Saw retrospective series, which focuses on several classics of Hong Kong action cinema. These are from one of the wildest periods of action cinema from anywhere in the world. Remaining films in the series include the last two chapters of the A Better Tomorrow and A Chinese Ghost Story trilogies, plus John Woo's Bullet In The Head, The Killer, and Hard Boiled. You can get all the showtimes, details, and your tix for these by clicking HERE! And coming up next week on Thursday October 23rd the Gothic is will be the site of what will surely be a great show, when North Carolina band Wednesday performs there again, in support of their brand new album Bleeds. Read more about it and get your tix HERE. And as noted above, on Saturday Oct. 25th, our stretch of Colfax will come together again to party for the 19th annual Boo & Brew Celebration, a family-friendly block party taking place from 1—4 PM. Read all the deets HERE! And on the last week of the month, rising singer-songwriter Jesse Welles (whose new album Middle just hit the shelves) will be headlining two nights at the Ogden on Wed. Oct 29th and Thu. Oct 30th! You can check out the Wednesday show HERE and the Thursday show HERE! And back at the Gothic, continuing their hot streak for this month, the great Todd Snider will take the stage on Thursday the 30th. You can read all about that and get your tix HERE. Lastly for October, as noted above, we've got a limited number of service fee-free tickets remaining for Itchy-O's Hallowmass concerts on Halloween Friday and Saturday November 1st, but if you need more info (or for some reason LOVE paying service fees), you can get the info you need for the Halloween show HERE or the Saturday show HERE! Bouncing back to Denver Film Society, the lineup is now available for this year's Denver Film Festival, taking place at the Sie and other locations from Friday October 31st through Sunday November 9th. Passes and individual screening tickets are also available now - read more and keep updated on Denver Film Society's website HERE! And looking to November, On Saturday November 8th, Sunny Jain of the superb Brooklyn-based bhangra band Red Baraat will be appearing at DU's Newman Center. You can read more about the event and get your tix HERE! On Thursday Nov. 13th King Princess will be bringing her queer indie pop/rock to the Ogden Theater in support of her new album Girl Violence. You can get all the deets and your tix HERE! And if you're looking for a unique experience in a unique place, eccentric guitarist Buckethead will be performing at the historic Stanley Hotel in Estes Park for two nights on Saturday and Sunday November 15th/16th. Having seen many shows there over the years, I can vouch for the experience being well worthwhile, and this should be a blast! Read more about the show and the venue and order tix HERE! And then on Tuesday November 18th, our pals at Creative Music Works close out their fall 2025 season with a concert by Brìghde Chaimbeul, master of the Scottish smallpipes (a bellows-blown, mellower cousin to the famous Highland bagpipes). If your musical tastes run to the adventurous and experimental, this show will tick all the right boxes. It's taking place at the Bug Theater and you can read more about it and reserve your tix HERE! And lastly for the month, local stand-up comedy hero Adam Cayton-Holland will be doing a show at the tiny Skylark Lounge on Saturday November 22nd. This will surely sell out, so if you're interested check on the info and get your tix HERE fast! Be sure to stay safe and healthy out there. Please feel free to take advantage of our complimentary masks, gloves, and hand sanitizer while shopping to help keep yourself and your community healthy! Cheers, New Releases 10/17/25
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