In five short, slashing songs, Lion Sized has created a classic punk-rock release for people who hate punk rock — or hate what it’s become, anyway. It’s tempting to call it post-punk as a nod to its intelligence, but that’s just because we’ve (mostly) forgotten how fucking smart punk can…
As musicians, the members of Kinetix have stellar chops. That much is clear just from hearing the band even once: These are some monster players. And the band’s latest album, Let Me In, recorded at the Blasting Room with Jason Livermore and produced by Flobot Andy Guerrero, does a great…
The conversation in Saratoga Springs, New York, is mostly about turf conditions at the local racetrack, the winners of the last big race and the other finer points of horse racing. It’s been nicknamed “Spa City” for its abundance of natural mineral springs, which help make it a favorite tourist…
Before striking out on his own, Pezzner put in sixteen years as half of the duo Jacob London. As interesting as that act’s take on house and breaks was, though, Pezzner’s solo work has quickly surpassed it. His mesmeric take on deep house has quickly gained the attention and admiration…
You excited for Showcase? Yeah, us too. So excited, in fact, we can’t wait. June 19 seems a long way off, so we’re throwing a free Showcase preparty called Get Your Pink On starting at 9:30 tonight at City Hall, 1144 Broadway. DJs A-Ray (grab his latest mixtape) and Mu$a…
If this new fangled Internet machine has proven one thing to us, it’s that we wasted our youth smoking pot and reading comic books. It seems like every damn day there’s a video of some little turd doing some amazing music thing and we’re left trying to find someone to…
If you haven’t got on the Savoy bandwagon yet, perhaps the video embedded above will help you make the jump. As we told you in our recent feature on the act, this is an electronic dance act with the soul of a rock band — and the show to go…
The browns, beiges and orange-reds of this week’s top flier put us more in mind of autumn than late spring. But looking out the window at the gray sky and scrim of snow sticking to things puts us more in mind of autumn too, so it’s strangely fitting. Perhaps Sun…
While we’re well aware that most of you could care less about a soundtrack to a decade-old computer game, that doesn’t mean we can’t spark your interest with the magical key phrase “free.” If that doesn’t work we might have to resort to tossing in “remastered” and “remixed.” The soundtrack…
In this week’s paper, we ran excerpts of Andy Thomas’s recent conversation with the members of Kinetix in Rough Mixes. That Q&A barely scratched the surface. After the jump, you’ll find not only Thomas’s exchange with band in its entirety but the transcript from Dutch Seyfarth’s recent chat with the…
Makeout Point is a relatively new Denver band you can call post-punk because it’s literally true: At least two of the four members used to be in hardcore bands. They’ve settled down now with fuzz pedals and melody, and you can hear the lead single from the upcoming 7-inch Night…
As people who think about, talk about, listen to and make music, the most common question we encounter is, “What are you listening to right now?” So whether you’re looking for recommendations, trying to get a feel for our individual sensibilities, or are just curious, we’ve compiled a list of…
The second single off Drake’s upcoming blockbuster finds him with some 808s and orchestra, courtesy of (who else?) Kanye West, doing his Casanova thing. The reaction was sort of neutral — it’s not terrible, but it’s also not “Forever.” Something of a holding pattern. But then the video came out…
The just-announced Black Crowes show the Fillmore on Sunday, August 29 might be the last chance to see them in the area for a while. The group is planning on taking an indefinite hiatus after its “Say Goodnight to the Bad Guys 2010 Tour,” which kicks off in August and…
It’s a simple concept: Write a program that searches news articles for naturally occurring Haikus and pair them with an obliquely related flickr photo. Personally, we could never do this because we do not know how to use something called Unix Cron Scheduling. But Eric Peterson does. You may know…
Back in the day, if you wanted to pull off a one-man band shtick, you needed a lot of instruments, a clever way to strap them all to your body and an unreal amount of coordination. Now, you just need five cellphones, some tape and a portable speaker. Oh, and…
Nearly a year after Tool’s triumphant headlining set at the Mile High Music Festival, Maynard James Keenan and company return to the area for a two-night stand at Red Rocks Amphitheatre on Monday and Tuesday, June 28 and 29. Reserved tickets are $52.50 to $69.50 and go on sale Saturday,…
Gotta give it up to the men of Ozomatli for having the cojones to embody their convictions rather than merely paying lip service with vacant platitudes, as so many artists do. These cats are putting themselves out there for better or worse. Witness the track “Gay Vatos in Love,” from…
Yesterday the art world bid farewell to one of its most badass and cryptic members when Frank Frazetta died of a stroke at the age of 82. His dark and often gruesome work will be missed. His comic artwork alone contributed to many of our own doodles of death-dealing knights…
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, The Colorado Sound, which originates at KRFC and is re-broadcast all over Colorado, 99.5 the Mountain’s Homegrown Show, and the…
Beltania 2010 05.06.2010-05.09.2010|Florence First things first: Beltania is primarily a festival for people practicing Earth-centered religions — paganism, Wicca, Native American religions, or even a very steward-centered (and non-exclusive, non-judgmental) form of Christianity. The four-day festival in the mountains included rituals for men and women, a sweat lodge, workshops on…
In Memory of Loss, Nathaniel Rateliff’s outstanding Rounder Records debut, topped the charts at Twist & Shout (where he also did an in-store performance last week) and Wax Trax, while rounding out the top ten at Albums on the Hill for the week ending May 8. Forgiveness Rock Record, meanwhile,…
