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Our flier of the week is a doozy this time around. It's for the Get Down party, which is moving to Beta this Friday, July 3, bringing a whole slew of talent including Whygee & Brikabrak, Input, 1984 and a bunch more. But most importantly, for FotW purposes, it gives us this incredible, candy-colored, tangerine-flake monstrosity of a show flier. What you see here is just a tiny part of the whole thing -- it was simply too big to fit in the blog, even in a reduced size/fidelity. The tiny slice you see here is full of pill bombs, graffiti-styled text, psychedelic sneakers ... it's like a hip-hop party on The Yellow Submarine! And lower down, you get AT-AT silhouettes, teddy-bear ghosts, pot leaves, and a dinosaur, among other fun stuff. That's good time in my book. To see the whole thing, click through to the jump -- but be warned, it's frigging huge and may take a while to load.

In this week's Pole Position, we've chosen to spotlight this intriguing design for Lipgloss's eight-year anniversary this Friday, June 26 at La Rumba. This typography heavy design is a little different from the usual flier, but that's what caught our eye. It's bold, stark, distinctive and packs a lot of information into a tight space with relatively high readability. It also reminds us a bit of the iconic, minimal design work from the heyday of Factory Records, which is never a bad thing in our eyes. As always, you can click on the flier for a larger view.

Oh, sweet monster-movie goodness! I'm beginning to think you all are designing just for me (not that I mind). This week's fancy-pants flier (click on it for a bigger version) pays homage to the movie-monster icons of yesteryear with a sweet mashup on the classic Bride of Frankenstein to promote the Inactivists with Mourning Sickness and Little Dead Things tomorrow night at the D-Note in Arvada. What's really cool about this, besides the impeccable taste inherent in ganking such a classic image, is the way that they integrated their own text so seamlessly. I mean, if you'd never seen this image before, would you even know they borrowed it from an old movie? The fonts are complementary, the layout is clean and now I want to go try and synch up Bride with the last Inactivists album, in finest Wizard of Oz/Pink Floyd style.

Looks like we've got dueling fliers in this week's pole position. Not that the one picked by our esteemed colleague this week isn't completely worthy, because it most certainly is; it's just that this particular one, hyping a Sunday, May 24, date at 3 Kings featuring Yerkish, Burn Sand Burn and the Limbs, is so freaking eye-grabbing. It comes as absolutely no surprise that the distinguished gentlemen of Yerkish -- or, more specifically, Ryan Eschenbach -- are responsible for this spectacular handbill. Eschenbach is considered by us to be one of the top designers in the scene (ranked up there right beside Eric Halborg, Jonathan Till and Eric Fletcher) primarily for his creativity and attention to detail. For instance, if you pay especially close attention to the barcode in the lower left hand corner, you'll notice a family of stick figures busting out of the, um, bars, above the words "escape" and what appears to either be "captivity" of "captives." Genius, we say. (Get a better gander of the barcode after the jump.)

Seems like just yesterday I was writing about the influence of horror movies on my musical taste (okay, it was two days ago) when along comes a flier sporting an image of the kind of thing I'd expect to see chasing some hapless victim in the next Silent Hill movie. Or maybe an exceprt from a book of the most bizarre medical aberattions ever. Supporting this groovy image is some nice, stark typography conveying just the minimum set of info needed to get you out to the show -- which I really appreciate, since I find a lot of great fliers ruined by too much text. And if you look closely, you might notice that hand has six fingers -- one for each month to live for the titular band. Deep, man. Real deep. And, as always, if you click on that image you'll get a bigger version in a popup window.

Our premier flier for the week advertises the upcoming CD release party for the Ideal Fathers debut EP on Saturday, May 16, at the Larimer Lounge. The Fathers are great live performers  who bring some serious energy, the EP kicks ass and this is pretty much a can't-miss show -- plus you get Accordion Crimes (great name, guys!) and the Get Down for the same low price. So it's only fitting that this flier is hands-down the most awesome image I've seen in weeks. Unicycle! Accordion! Ridiculously long waxed mustache that spells out "Larimer Lounge"! This illustration is just too freaking cool not to be our flier of the week, so it is. Click on it to see it bigger and head down to the Lounge next Saturday to have your head exploded by the awesomeness.

Admittedly, we clearly have a thing for Houses at the moment (if you've seen this band live or heard the new record, you understand why). Nonetheless, there's something striking about the flier promoting the band's EP release party this Friday, May 1 at the hi-dive. There's just something about the simplistic design and type face and the overall color composition that we find utterly compelling. Click on the image to the left to enlarge and get an eyeful for yourself.

I just caught sight of this excellent poster and knew right away that it was our flier of the week. In the course of advertising the sure-to-be excellent appearance of Dormir, Gloam, Portamento, St. Elias and Woodsman at the Meadowlark this Saturday, April 25, this flier makes a powerful statement for the power of design. Every element here works in concert, from the color choices to the typography to the eye-catching, abstract quasi-mosaic image. It's simultaneously aesthetically pleasing, spare and powerful. In short, it's a triumph of design. Me likey.

Today I woke up thinking, "Thursday already, and no Flier of the Week to light the way?" Then I saw this delightful work and knew the gods of graphic design had seen my plight and taken pity on me. The muted color palette and sea-creature graphic seem especially suited to this wet Thursday afternoon, don't they? The typograpy is great, too, and the whole thing is kind of cute, in a way that even dudes who don't go in much for cute (like me, for instance) can appreciate without feeling the need to throw up in their mouths a little. If you like it too, show your appreciation by going to the show April 24 at the hi-dive to catch the gentle country-kissed pop of Hello Kavita and the fine femme stylings of both Andrea Ball and the Autumn Film.

For reminding me of the Golden Age of movie lobby posters, this flier for local promoter Zombie Rock's show tomorrow night at Cervantes' has earned the nod for flier of the week. Its bold, stark colors, simple, line-illustrated style and suggestion of unspeakable horror proved to be an irresistible combination for me. With a slightly different layout, this could be a great movie poster for a Herschell Gordon Lewis flick and since the days when this kind of art graced movie theater lobbies is long since over, it's all the more exciting to see it repped in band fliers. And the bands fit right in with the style, which helps. The Henchmen and the Royal Dead (a local band currently touring with the Henchmen) are both fine, upstanding psychobilly rockers, and I'm sure the other bands on the bill trade in the same revved up, horrorpunk surf sounds. You can get more details at Zombie Rock's MySpace page.