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Remodel....

So I have been throwing some new ideas together and will be re-doing the site with new logos, layouts, contributors,....and more in the meantime I am headed to Austin for this weeks SXSW festivities....I will be doing coverage for both The Denver Post and my other blog ULTRA8201....so follow my shenannigans.

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Denver American Idol

For those of you who haven't seen this a good friend and co-worker of mine was on tonight's American Idol and pretty much rocked the judges. I still remember going to core training with this guy and telling myself "dat boy got talent". Congratulations Mark....from A Walking Disaster.

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Coachella 2010

Here is the lineup for this year....looks promising, I have yet to attend Coachella so this may be the year.

Top Ten Albums Of 2009

So here it is folks my top albums of 2009. I had an opportunity to catch a few of these bands this year during SXSW, Monolith, and other shows here in Denver. So without further adieu I present you A Walking Disaster's Top Ten.

1. Phoenix-Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix

2. Grizzly Bear-Veckatimest

3. Animal Collective-Meriweather Post Pavillion

4. Metric-Fantasies

5. The XX-Self Titled

6. The Dirty Projectors-Bitte Orca

7. Julian Plenti-Julian Plenti...Is Skyscraper

8. Raekwon-Only Built 4 Cuban Linx.. II

9. The Yeah Yeah Yeahs-It's Blitz

10. Blakroc-Blakroc

STS9 News and New Year's Eve Show Info

So it looks like the boys from Sound Tribe Sector Nine have released their new album AD EXPLORATA....and with that being said the will be playing a New Year's Eve show here in Denver......

STS9 are pleased to announce they will be celebrating New Years Eve 2009-2010 at Denver, Colorado’s Wells Fargo Theatre on December 30 and 31. Located in the heart of downtown Denver and part of the city’s world renowned convention center, Wells Fargo Theatre is a state of the art masterpiece that boasts over 5,000 seats all less than 150 feet from the stage. Its stage will be the biggest STS9 has ever had the pleasure of performing on and is located directly in the heart of one of America’s greatest cities with tons of hotels, restaurants, clubs and cultural attractions just footsteps away.

TICKETING INFO / DETAILS:
Tickets for the Wells Fargo Theatre go on-sale this Thursday August 20th at NOON MOUNTAIN / 2PM EASTERN time exclusively through STS9Store.com. Due to the fact that each venue employs different ticketing systems, the first 1,000 two day passes sold for Wells Fargo Theatre will be provided a unique code to be used to purchase tickets for the Gates Hall event which will go on-sale MONDAY AUGUST 31st at NOON MOUNTAIN TIME via TicketMaster. Codes will be unique to each user and cannot be shared or transferred. You will be allotted the same number of tickets for the Gates Hall show that you purchased for Wells Fargo. You can buy up to that number of tickets, however each code expires after purchase whether you buy all of your allotted tickets or not. You will have until MIDNIGHT on FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 4th MTN time to buy these tickets that are held for you, however, they are indeed first come first served in regards to seat location. Any remaining tickets will be released to the public at a later date.
- Two night passes for Wells Fargo Theatre are $97.50 + a one time $5.00 processing fee per order + shipping.
- STS9 are waiving service charges on the first thousand tickets but must ship registered mail via UPS.
- There will be no will-call option.
- Gates Hall tickets will be approximately $35.00 with all per ticket service charges included via TicketMaster.
- Wells Fargo Theatre will feature general admission seating and a large GA PIT both nights.
- Gates Hall is a RESERVED SEATING SHOW.

-Single Day Wells Fargo tickets do not allow access to buy tickets for Gates Hall @ University of Denver on 12/29. Only 2-Day Pass purchasers will qualify to purchase Dec. 29 tickets at a later date

-2-Day Pass Purchasers: Please save email confirmation to use to purchase 12/29 Gates Hall tickets at a later date

- All shows are ALL AGES.


THE GENESIS OF AD EXPLORATA Santa Cruz, CA...10.06.09....A family member of ours has a shortwave radio that we have all been messing around with. We had been using it for sound effects and noises when one day it was left it on in the studio. Keyboardist David Phipps' daughter Aya was playing around with the dials when all of a sudden it stopped on this voice on the super low frequencies of the spectrum. It was a woman's voice, artificial we later found out, counting off numbers in a very clear and concise way. We became obsessed with what we had heard and for weeks we sat behind the dials trying to find more voices. There was only one more to be found, the voice we sampled for the beginning of the song "Central". After a bit of research, we found that these were numbers stations, thought to be coded messages various governments use to send correspondence to spy's overseas. This of course isn't publicly acknowledged by any government, even though in 2001 the United States tried the Cuban Five for spying using information they supposedly received and decoded by broadcast from a Cuban numbers station. STS9 has always been fascinated by numbers; finding this transmission captured our imagination so much that we had to see if there was something more to what we had found. Immediately we enlisted the skills of a crypto-hacker friend of ours to see if she could find any relevance to the sequence we had recorded. When she ran the numbers as coordinates corresponding to a map of military bases in California, she came up with an exact location in Big Sur. We immediately went to check it out and sure enough there was a trail about 10 miles back off of Nacimiento Rd. just south of the park that led to this old abandoned bunker type structure. It was crazy. We were all looking at each other in disbelief but there we were. We crawled through a hole at the bottom of the fence and walked inside. There we found a rusted metal box that had a few pictures, documents, patches, passports, and a knife in it. The first picture was of a document from Allen Dulles to J. Edgar Hoover on brainwashing. The second was of two men standing over a map of the Middle East. That image became the cover of our first single "Atlas" off the upcoming release 'Ad Explorata'. One of the patches we found was the most intriguing of our finds. It had this physically impossible symbol on it that looked futuristic next to all of the older documents. It's the symbol we lay over top of every image you will see for the album. In doing some research, we later found an old book of 'black ops' military patches at the Prelinger Library that had a brief description of this patch. It was thought to be for a secret unit that first used satellites to gather SIGINT (signal intelligence) from other countries during the Cold War. The story is that this team actually gathered signals from another civilization in our galaxy. Their motto was 'Ad Explorata, Forward into the Unexplored'. We're not ones for conspiracies but sometimes the truth is stranger than anything we could imagine. With this, we present to you STS9's newest studio release "Ad Explorata" due out December of 2009, inspired by the idea that there is always more to be discovered, manifested by the belief that you can always push towards the unknown and unexplored, and created by the will and desire for constant artistic evolution, expression and change. STS9. AD EXPLORATA. 2009.

Pursuit Of Happiness-Kid Cudi ft. MGMT & Ratatat Video

Here is a pretty hype video off Kid Cudi's album....look for a cameo by Drake.