Everything about Air Dubai is ironic. While not strictly hip-hop-based, there is a good amount of cadence in the dueling vocals of Jon Shockness and Julian Thomas. There is a melody and harmony that drives the band’s tunes, and its latest effort, Wonder Age, an album about nothing, has evolved…
Austin’s Woven Bones is serious about rock and roll, and makes no bones about its love affair with the more primitive aspects of drums, bass and guitar. Taking cues from the lo-fi aesthetic of the garage underground and post-punk pantheon, the band runs its cacophonous brand of minimalist hip-shake through…
You can hear the influence of growing up in a musical family (drummer father, singer mother) in pretty much every one of Swedish electro/progressive house producer/DJ John Dahlbäck’s tracks. Presumably, his dad’s penchant for pounding the skins led him to dance music, where he could keep insistent rhythms pumping constantly…
There was a time when pop punk wasn’t just a fashion statement, musical or otherwise, despite bands like Green Day and NOFX making the style known to people who couldn’t tell you anything about 924 Gilman Street. The Gamits emerged in 1996 as an energetic trio that didn’t just play…
Oh, man, it’s about to get all sorts of dumb over at Gallery 22 on Saturday afternoons. Just heard that the Radio Bums crew is taking over the patio from 1-6 p.m. for The Radio Bums Hangout. If the flier is to be believed the Bums will be throwing down…
If we weren’t already completely stoked for this weekend’s Warlock Pinchers reunion (and admittedly, we are), this week’s flier would entice us to check it out. The mirrored symmetry and the long, elfin faces of the ladies central to the image are intriguing. The flowers (and the clever way the…
Spoke In Wordz is a rapper with a background rooted in the structure of poetry. His flow is notably diverse. Like one of his major inspirations, Guru, Spoke uses a velvety voice to deliver his lyrics, but he also spits in Spanish, lightning-fast, with a tone used to provoke thought…
While we always suspected that you could really cut a rug to 3OH!3’s music — especially “My First Kiss,” the first single from the outfit’s new album, Streets of Gold, and the video of which also earned the outfit another MTV VMA nomination earlier this week — now we have…
Lest the rest of the country think we’re merely home to indie rock goodness like Candy Claws and sugary sweet electro-pop confections like 3OH!3 or Breathe Carolina, Allegaeon’s new album, Fragments of Form & Function, issued two weeks ago on the storied Metal Blade Records imprint, should help dispel any…
Our Denver Rock Atlas feature is precisely what it sounds like: A compendium of storied Denver venues, past and present, in which we pick a place and share our favorite memories of the joint. After you read our memories, please feel free to share some of your own. Where does…
From being praised on Pitchfork to having all of their gear destroyed in a car fire, it’s been a month of ups and downs for Candy Claws. Knock on wood, but things look to be back on the upswing: This weekend at the hi-dive in the company of Achille Lauro…
The Absinthe House is slated to open later this month in the former Foundry space at 1109 Walnut Street in Boulder, which has been vacant since November. Its website says it will be serving over forty beers from around the world and boasts the largest selection of genuine absinthe in…
Breathe Carolina fans already know what “I.D.G.A.F.” stands for — no need to spell things out for them. For everyone else, though, “I.D.G.A.F.,” the acronym, is short for “I Don’t Give a Fuck.” And while we hate to suggest otherwise, it’s seems pretty clear from watching the act’s slick, new,…
Judging from the unusually vitriolic comments left at the bottom of our recent post focusing on SP Double, not everybody holds the MC in a particularly high regard. Just the same, personal misgivings aside, the cat is an absolute beast on the mike. That much is undeniable, as evidenced by…
Here’s another brand new, unreleased ditty to lay on you. This one’s from Concept Oner and features his American Trash Republic counterparts Cody Beastly and Chuck Steaks. More summer than a swimming pool brimming with boisterous kids, this notably laid back little track is built upon a breezy Beatles-like arpeggio…
Behold nine-year-old Ezra Lux, possibly the world’s first (and greatest) pre-teen metal blogger. Over at his barely a month old metal blog Crud Wizard (which is also the best name for a metal blog we’ve heard in a long, long time), Ezra is dropping some serious wisdom, such as this…
Here what the area’s local-centric specialty radio shows were spinning this week. We’re currently tracking the playlists a number of different shows including, Radio 1190’s Local Shakedown*, KTCL’s Locals Only, KBCO’s Local Edition, The Colorado Sound, which originates at KRFC and is re-broadcast all over Colorado, 99.5 the Mountain’s Homegrown…
See also: Input on how SupaHotBeats convinced him to share his harrowing Columbine experience These days, older terms like “backpack rap” and “college rap” have become interchangeable with markers like “conscious hip-hop” and “alt hip-hop,” as ways to attempt to describe and categorize hip-hop that’s thoughtful and introspective. While Input’s…
Ansel Adams, famous for capturing a multitude of black-and-white landscape photographs — many of which likely adorn the walls of your dentist’s office — once said, “You don’t take a photograph. You make it.” Seetwist Productions lives, breathes, shoots and essentially embodies those words by profiling some of the most…
It’s been a hell of a week for show announcements. Aside from getting the word on shows by the Cult, Blitzen Trapper, Bad Religion, the Thermals and Drake, Gorillaz announced a show at the Wells Fargo Theatre on Sunday, October 24. Tickets to see the Damon Albarn-fronted group, which includes…
While there weren’t any unanimous winners across the board, Best Coast’s debut, Crazy For You, released last week on Mexican Summer, took the top spot at Wax Trax and the tenth spot at Albums on the Hill for the week ending August 1. Big Boi’s Sir Lucious Left Foot…The Son…
Sometimes it’s not so much about the music as it is the idea. Case in point: The above song, “The Birds and the Beedrills,” by White Licorice and Sad Panda, is not a good rap song. It doesn’t have particularly intriguing beats. It does, however, manage to pack in the…
