Music

Few bass players possess the intensity and stage presence of former Cephalic Carnage bassist Jawsh Mullen. And for his part, Devon Rogers has been equally commanding and powerful behind the drums, keeping time for acts as diverse as Register, Hemi Cuda and Reverend Dead Eye. Munimula (due at 3 Kings…

Glochids, Puppet Sampler KeyboardSwee (Distant Colony Records). Though largely a kind of musique concrète, it sounds as though the composers of this effort watched their share of Gus Van Sant and Larry Clark movies and thought they could write better, more haunting incidental music. The minimalist tapestry of electronic sounds…

If you want to relive the days when you wore oversized pants and candy necklaces, waved glow sticks in everyone’s face and popped pills like tomorrow would never come, you could do a lot worse than heading down to the Church this Thursday, November 20, to catch Commander Tom. The…

Singer-songwriter Matt Morris got his start as a Mouseketeer alongside Justin Timberlake and Christina Aguilera. After spending his early teen years apprenticed to the Mouse, he returned to his native Denver to attend John F. Kennedy High School. These days, he’s an accomplished singer-songwriter who’s co-written tunes with Aguilera and…

When he’s asked to describe his home town of Augusta, Georgia, Dead Confederate singer/guitarist Hardy Morris responds with a single word: “Golf” — a reference to the Masters, a tournament that’s defined the community since the 1930s. Still, Morris admits that even in his youth, the competition never interested him…

Everybody knows AC/DC doesn’t change much; it tweaks its basic sound from album to album, and that’s about it. This time around, producer Brendan O’Brien makes the group sound like live humans playing music in a room rather than gods hurling riffs like thunderbolts from the sky. They’re funkier and…

Her Pinkness likely had no idea that the Stooges used Fun House as the moniker for a genius 1970 album — but the fact that this possibility can’t be entirely ruled out demonstrates why she’s several cuts above the average popster. She’s grown increasingly confident with each passing album, and…

Reliability. It’s underrated. Who even thinks about a car that starts every time? Until the one time it doesn’t. AC/DC is like that. The band rocks. And that’s all it does. The music isn’t complicated. It’s Phil Rudd’s simple drumming. It’s Cliff Williams’s straightforward bass lines. It’s Malcolm Young’s utilitarian…

Diverse, surprising albums and an explosive, engaging live show are the hallmarks of Apollo Sunshine, a trio of friends — Sam Cohen, Jesse Gallagher and Jeremy Black — who met at the Berklee College of Music the better part of a decade ago. The group has drawn comparisons to artists…

Although essentially following the glam-metal trend of the ’80s, the members of Lizzie Borden never embarrassed themselves as egregiously as many of their contemporaries. Instead of draping simperingly saccharine pop in faux-gender-bending rock-satyr guise, the group opted for the harder-edged rock and visually engaging live shows embodied by bands like…

Incubus bassist Ben Kenney isn’t letting the band’s year-long hiatus keep him out of the studio or off the road. The former Roots guitarist is keeping himself plenty busy pushing his latest solo album, Distance and Comfort, on which he wears all the hats as producer, mixer, writer and performer:…

The shimmery cymbals and distant voices in the fog of white noise that opens this album somehow recall the beginning of Days of Future Passed, by the Moody Blues. While musically the work shares little with the high-end production of that ’60s classic, artistically it’s equally as ambitious, with a…

Although Invisible Orange’s previous release was called Valium, the long-player hardly qualified as a depressant — and that’s true of the band’s latest, too. “Run,” the opening cut, is a thundering stampede of rawk obnoxiousness, with Adrian Moore hammering out bottomless guitar tones like a hyperkinetic blacksmith and Donovan Breazeale’s…

For photos from Adam’s reunion with his favorite boy band, go to westword.com/slideshow. Dude, I totally swear to God, at the New Kids on the Block concert, there was a moment during the song “My Favorite Girl” when Joey McIntyre pointed directly fucking at me! I know it sounds ridiculous;…

Scott Baxendale, a master luthier based in Denver, has crafted axes for Carl Perkins, Willie Nelson and John Mellencamp. He’s also made a few guitars for his good buddies, the Drive-By Truckers, with whom he’s also sat in with periodically, most recently, at the Bluebird last month. In this three-minute…

This just in, the Fray, who, as previously reported, will be premiering its new single, “You Found Me,” tomorrow night on its website, after parts of the track appear in a promo for Lost that will air during Grey’s Anatomy, will be pulling back the curtain on its new album…

Hot on the heels of the news that Chinese Democracy has been leaked (see the blog directly below this one) comes what I assume is the first review of the years-in-the-making album from noted rock scribe Chuck Klosterman. The review is full of his usual overblown, overwritten hyperbole, but that…

Senator, we knew GN’R. GN’R was a friend of ours. You’re no GN’R. Less than a week before its official release date, Chinese Democracy has reportedly leaked been posted on Guns N’ Roses’ MySpace page. Yep. The full album. Yesterday Today. After a bazillion years of build up, that’s it…

Presumably in anticipation of its next release, Recollections of Memory, due out on February 10, 2009, the stunningly prolific members of A Shoreline Dream have posted a short — and we do mean short; its running time is one minute and thirteen seconds — clip of themselves performing “Hypermode” at…

Danava, Space In Time and Outer Neon Tuesday, November 18, 2008 Larimer Lounge, Denver Better Than: A good bulk of the neo-classic heavy rock of late. Opening the night was the mighty, sludgy psych-rock duo Outer Neon from Denver. For someone not paying attention, it might be easy to carelessly…