Hopefully you've got some great plans for your long weekend! Here at Twist we are open regular hours for the weekend, but on Monday Sept. 2nd, for Labor Day itself, we will be open from 10AM — 5PM so we can get out and enjoy the last gasp of summer ourselves! And we also want to offer up a special thanks to everyone who came down Thursday for our listening party to check out the new album from Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds, Wild God, which is now out on shelves! Keep your eye on this spot for announcements of all upcoming events we do here! And don't forget to click the link at the bottom of the page to check out the latest, coolest used acquisitions we've gotten in Used Vinyl Rarities — we just got in a couple great collections you'll be seeing a lot of over the coming weeks as we process them!
In new releases this week, we've got a few bigger key releases (which you can click through below to order copies), and plenty of more modest releases and reissues worth talking about as well. Read on: Minneapolis country/indie band The Cactus Blossoms are back in action with their newest release Every Time I Think About You, out now on CD and indie exclusive bronze vinyl LP; Miami hip-hop artist Denzel Curry has released King of the Mischievous South Vol. 2, a sequel of sorts to an early mixtape of his, on CD and indie exclusive violet vinyl LP; two LPs have come out this week in the Original Jazz Classics series of vinyl reissues — Miles Davis' 1956 album Miles, which features the debut of his famed group featuring John Coltrane, Paul Chambers, Philly Joe Jones, and Red Garland — what became known as THE Miles Davis Quintet — and Clark Terry's 1958 classic In Orbit, featuring the great Thelonious Monk on piano!; another great jazz vinyl reissue this week is the Verve Acoustic Sounds Series LP release Staz Getz' beautiful 1967 album Sweet Rain, featuring Getz in an all-star quartet of Chick Corea, Ron Carter, and Grady Tate; legendary British psychedelic space rockers Hawkwind have reissued their 1971 album In Search of Space on LP and in a deluxe CD box set this week; English electronic musician Jon Hopkins releases his seventh solo studio album Ritual this week on both CD and indie exclusive clear etched vinyl LP; the sophomore album by Latin-tinged (mostly) instrumental group Los Bitchos, Talkie Talkie, is out now on CD and indie exclusive purple vinyl LP; Megan Thee Stallion's newest CD Megan is also out today (no LP date yet listed); the terrific compilation Nigeria 70: The Definitive Guide to 1970's Funky Lagos has been reissued this week on translucent green vinyl LP; Sebadoh's best album (well, MY favorite anyway) Bakesale has been reissued this week on silver vinyl LP; Ty Segall's new album Love Rudiments is out now on LP and Cassette only (no CD release date listed); and last but not least, Katherine Whalen pays tribute to Mr. Baker with her new album Let's Get Lost: Songs Chet Sang, out on CD and LP.
On Blu-ray and other video formats we're back to a strong week, and here are some highlights: the great French director Claire Denis' enigmatic, disturbing film Bastards is out on Blu-ray; Vinegar Syndrome, as always, has shown up with a good batch of releases this week: the Balkan horror/thriller Eight Eyes, the banned Polish arthouse film Interrogation, the Mexican exploitation twofer of vicious roving motorcycle gangs Intrépidos Punks / Vengeance of the Punks, and a 4K UHD of the cult classic Reptilicus; the 2023 British queer cinema thriller Femme is also out on Blu-ray this week; the Criterion Collection brings us a paid of Albert Brooks comedy classics — Mother and Real Life — in both Blu-ray and UHD/Blu-ray combo packages; director Yves Robert helmed a pair of 1990 films written by the French cinema great Marcel Pagnol — My Father's Glory and My Mother's Castle — and they have been released as one Blu-ray package this week; also out this week on Blu-ray is the complete series of the classic children's show Pee-Wee's Playhouse; and lastly for Blu-ray releases this week Radiance Films brings us a paid of underseen international films — the 1966 Japanese crime film Tokijiro: Lone Yakuza and the 1971 oedipal Spanish drama Viva la Muerte. In 4K UHD reissues we've got quite a few things out now: a pair of French New Wave classics — Jean-Luc Godard's deconstructed sci-fi film Alphaville and Alain Resnais' intricate puzzle of memory Last Year at Marienbad — the Nicolas Winding Refn modern action classic Drive (in a limited edition steebook Blu-ray/UHD combo pack), an Arrow Films box set of The Mexico Trilogy: El Mariachi, Desperado & Once Upon A Time In Mexico (plus a limited edition stand-alone release of Desperado), another Arrow horror set of the films The Woman and Offspring, and the first sequel to an 80s horror classic, Poltergeist II: The Other Side.
Outside the store, happening this weekend, Denver's newest indie/DIY festival, Ghost Canyon Fest, will be taking place in various venues on South Broadway from Friday-Sunday August 23rd through 25th. They are focused on “the heavy and the weird” according to their site, and they will highlight a unique batch of artists, both local and touring. Check out the full lineup HERE and then bounce around the site for more info of all types, or to get tix. And coming up next week, we point you toward yet another festival — this one a single-day event, and best of all, it's a FREE show at Levitt Pavilion — the Jello Biafra-curated Tentaclefest, taking place Friday August 30th at Levitt, and with a lineup featuring punk, hip-hop, and more, including performances by Tsunami Bomb, Wheelchair Sports Camp, and more. Read all the deets and reserve your tix HERE!
Outside the store, TODAY, there is a FREE show at Levitt Pavilion — the Jello Biafra-curated Tentaclefest, taking place Friday August 30th at Levitt, with a lineup featuring punk, hip-hop, and more, including performances by Tsunami Bomb, Wheelchair Sports Camp, and more. Read all the deets and reserve your tix HERE! Dazzle Jazz is continuing their series of musicians paying homage to the great guitarist and teacher Dale Bruning on Sunday Sept. 8th, with a quintet lead by Mike Hyland, that will also feature Bruning himself on guitar! Read more about it and get your tix HERE! The legendary Lucinda Williams and her band will be performing on Saturday September 14th at CU Boulder's lovely Macky Auditorium, and you can find all the info and secure your tickets by clicking HERE! Also up in Boulder the very next night at the Boulder Theater, Ukrainian group DakhaBrakha will be performing on Sunday Sept 15th. I caught part of their set at Big Ears a few years ago and they were riveting, so if you can find your way to Boulder for the show it comes HIGHLY recommended. Details and tix HERE. And next door, happening on Tuesday September 17th, we've teamed up with our pals at the Sie Film Center to present Art Dealers, a documentary about the evolution of the fantastic rock and roll band Low Cut Connie. And the best part — leader Adam Weiner will be there in person for an intro and Q&A hosted by Alisha Sweeney of Colorado Public Radio! Get more info and your tix HERE. And the next night jazz guitarist extraordinaire Julian Lage brings his group to the Gothic Theater on Wednesday September 18th and everything you need for that show can be found HERE. But if that's not your vibe, English art rockers Ulrika Spacek are appearing the same night at the Hi-Dive, along with a pair of excellent local openers — Bluebook and Pale Sun — and you can get more deets and tix HERE. On Friday September 20th there will be a superb two-guitar jazz lineup, as legendary guitarist Marc Ribot will be performing at the Mercury Café in a quartet that includes the sensational second guitar of jazz great Mary Halvorson! Read all details and get your tix HERE. And back at the Sie on Saturday Septmeber 21st at 7:00PM, Scream Screen brings another great event to the complex — a 50th anniversary screening of Brian De Palma's cult Glam Rock musical Phantom of the Paradise! Get more info and tix HERE! 90s indie rockers Soul Coughing have reunited their original lineup for the first time in 25 years and are touring now. Their Boulder show is already sold out, but while tickets last you can still catch them here in Denver at the Ogden on Saturday September 21st! Info and tix HERE. And the very next night, Built to Spill will take the stage at the Ogden, with the excellent band Quasi (who recently tore up their headlining show at the Marquis) on Sunday Sept. 22nd, with info and tix available HERE! And last but not least for September, the legendary Jonathan Richman brings his rock and roll show tot he Bluebird on Sunday Sept. 29th and you can get what you need HERE!
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