The Death of the Indie Clubs in Denver
Denver was a cow-town fly-over city. Then a crap ton of bands got signed, and then some more, and then we all fought each other and got all stupid and hatey. In the meantime, all the big venue management folks just kept on making money. Then, one fateful day, the Gothic Theatre — the stalwart-local-band-dreamy-safe-haven-and-cornerstone-of-big-pants-defiance-forged-on-linchpins-of-hope-and-cheap-beer — was suddenly “under contract to AEG” (Anschutz Entertainment Group; basically the Google of facilities More …
