Music

There seems to be a big influx of reverby, neo-garage rock everywhere lately. School Knights fares better than many bands because its youthful exuberance is not a pose. It’s obvious from these four songs that this duo has listened to more than its fair share of No Age and Siltbreeze…

Hungry, simple, unpolished, unposed: Indie rock used to be a beautiful thing. But all is not lost in the age of hipster Hyundai commercials. For instance, there’s Makeout Point. Or at least there used to be: The outfit broke up recently, soon after the release of its latest EP, Don’t…

Bigwheel Electrosoul’s The Guac Vol 1. features the intricate live instrumentation you expect from Bigwheel, boosted by the turntable skills of DJ Vajra, who chops things up and keeps them fresh and full. The ambience of the set, recorded live at Lola, is perfect for a progressive brunch crowd. Not…

Mr. Midas has finally put his stamp of approval on his debut, Son of the Crack Era, which details the ills and spills of the crack epidemic on society from a hip-hop perspective. Not only is Midas using his laid-back, honeyed voice to create a line of storytelling that will…

After releasing a short run of independently released cassettes titled Girly Sound in the early ’90s, Liz Phair quickly garnered critical acclaim for her offbeat sense of humor and knack for quirky, inventive pop songs. On the strength of those releases, Phair signed to Matador Records, which released her debut…

Whether or not you dig the heavily trance-influenced livetronica group the Disco Biscuits, you should give the Biscuits’ side project, Conspirator, a fighting chance: Instead of trance-jam-band fusion, Conspirator draws heavily from trance, downtempo and drum-and-bass, creating soundscapes that are eerier, subtler and more interesting to the trained electronica ear…

For some bands, touring is a natural state of being. This is absolutely true for Louisiana’s Cowboy Mouth, as the quartet comes through Denver tonight on it’s 16th annual “Mardi Gras tour.” Making country-twinged pop-rock since 1990, the band pulls from influences like The Clash — heard loud and clear…

Hey, what do you know? Performing at the Showcase can actually be beneficial to your career. Well, so to speak. In a roundabout way, playing at the Showcase helped the men of Boldtype land an opening slot on the upcoming Guttermouth tour. Well, it sealed the deal, anyway. We’ll let…

Ah, here we are again, a new year. You know what that means? Yep. Time to start the South by Southwest countdown. The first bands have been announced, and although there will likely be a bazillion more announced, of the groups announced so far, three local bands have received official…

Call it a hunch, but we’re going to venture a guess that the members of Churchill are falling more on the happy end of the Happy/Sad spectrum these days now that their like-named, fan-funded full-length is under wraps…

We’ll have whatever these folks are having, and make ours a double. Seriously. Having suffered through what was, without question, one of the worst Broncos seasons in our lifetime, we were simply hoping that the team would just go gently into that good night against the Chargers. Not so with…

Even if Dave Aude’s name isn’t immediately recognizable, it is impossible to have missed his work over the past two decades. The prolific DJ and producer has worked with Katy Perry, Mary J. Blige and Lady Gaga on Billboard-charting remixes this year alone, and put his precise ear to task…

After graduating high school in Boulder and obtaining a bachelor’s degree in music from UNC in Greeley, where she honed her piano and vocal skills, songwriter Shenandoah Davis moved to Seattle. That was nearly four years ago, and she’s done anything but sit still since…

Dispatch is back together, and it’s playing its first show in four years at Red Rocks. That’s a pretty big deal. Dispatch, in case the name isn’t immediately familiar, is arguably one of the most successful independent bands of all time. To wit: The band played what was then thought…