Jandek at Aztlan Theater

Featuring Jandek, the musical project of Corwood Industries, a record label operating out of Houston, Texas.

Since 1978, Jandek/Corwood Industries has independently released over 135 albums/DVDs of unusual, often emotionally dissolute folk, rock, and blues songs without ever granting an interview or providing any biographical information. Jandek often plays a highly idiosyncratic and frequently atonal form of folk, rock, classical, and blues music, sometimes using an open and unconventional chord structure. The name “Jandek” refers specifically to the musical project.

This is Jandek's first performance of 2025 and the only one announced this year.

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The Aztlan Theater is an iconic venue in Denver, a century old, and under the ownership of Timeo Correa, a lifelong Chicano community activist, for more than fifty years. The Aztlan started its story as one of the few theaters in Denver serving the Chicano/Latino community, playing Spanish-language films at an affordable price. When the VCR was introduced into the market, the theater was forced out of the film business and started hosting concerts, serving as a hotspot of the underground scene and later a regular host of major international rock, hip hop, metal, punk, and Latin music acts, before becoming a staple of the local rave scene in the early 2000s. Pretty much anyone who has been going to shows in Denver for longer than 20 years has meaningful memories at the Aztlan, but the theater has been slowly deteriorating and largely out of commission for the past decade and its future is up in the air as its owners age, its neighborhood gentrifies and property taxes skyrocket. 

We have received Timeo’s blessing to book a series of ticketed shows to raise awareness of the theater’s existence and struggles, invite new generations of patrons to the Aztlan, and sow seeds of a community-oriented future for the theater. We hope that the sonic activation of the space will help breathe new life into it and mobilize community members to take action to preserve this essential community space, rather than waiting until it is lost to try to recover it. We also plan to use these shows to raise funds to help cover the property tax bill on this underutilized space.

With gratitude,

Caracol Productions Team 🌀