The Pirate Signal, 3 the Hardway, The ReMINDers, Fresh Breath Committee, Masta Ace. Fox Theater Thursday October 8, 2009 Better than: Anything you have to wake up for on Friday that would have stopped you from being there. Approaching the Fox last night for the Fresh Breath Committee’s CD release…
Time, A Clock, Damon JeVon, Agent Strange and Doctype Thursday, October 8, 2009 hi-dive Better Than: That Alex Jones documentary on Bohemian Grove.A Clock from Fort Collins kicked off Thursday’s night show at the hi-dive, with his skilled sidekick, a DJ named Deadbeat, spinning jazz and R&B. Throughout his set,…
If you’re in need of some new music to freshen up the ol’ iPod, yet find yourself as bereft of disposable income as ever, here’s some good news: more than three dozen free albums from Rope Swing Cities, all in one place for easy perusal. The local IDM/ambient electronic netlabel…
Update: Manchester Orchestra is playing on Friday night at Club 156 in Boulder. Andy Hull’s solo project, Right Away, Great Captain is slated to open. Tonight will mark the first time the two have performed together. Bad news for those expecting to see Manchester Orchestra, the subject of this week’s…
The other significant local hip-hop release this evening comes from the Fresh Breath Committee, who also took time to mix it up with us this week. It’s pretty safe bet that all the local heads that aren’t at the hi-dive will be at the Fox Theatre in Boulder for the…
Tonight’s a pretty big night for local hip-hop. Two significant releases are both being released tonight. The first of today’s Freeloader tracks is taken from Naked Dinner, Time’s brand new album, which he’ll be dropping tonight at the hi-dive in the company of Whygee, Agent Strange and Damon JeVon &…
As music critics, the most common question we get asked (and ask each other, for that matter) is, “What are you listening to?” The pervasiveness of this query is precisely what inspired Heavy Rotation, our latest feature. For the benefit of those who happen to be curious, we’ve compiled a…
The Avett Brothers’ I and Love and You, released last week on American Recordings, grabbed the top spot at Bart’s CD Cellar for the week ending October 4. Jay-Z’s The Blueprint 3 and Alice in Chains’ Black Gives Way to Blue nabbed the second and third slots while Mariah Carey’s…
Remember back when we didn’t really have too many high-profile bands, before the Fray and all the other members of the Neo Denver Invasion were even a gleam in their daddy’s eye? Then you probably remember Five Iron Frenzy, the ridiculously popular ska-core outfit fronted by Reese Roper whose members…
All right, break’s over, kids. Time for the big takeover. Looks like the Flobots are getting back to work — and it’s about damn time, for chrissakes. While the rest of us slept in intervals as a result of our efforts to diligently invest our time in such noble and…
Fear Before, Solar Bear, My Body Sings Electric Wednesday, October 7, 2009 The Marquis Theater Better Than: A junkyard bonfire Solar Bear began the onslaught at around 8:30, and for the rest of the evening the only respite to be found was between sets. The three bands are demonstrably different…
If you’re seeking Nirvana, you shall find it. It’s all there. From the dark, diary-style lyrics to the tortured-growl delivery to the loud-quiet-loud dynamic, you can hear the influence Kurt Cobain has had on Andy Hull as you listen to the super-serious, 22-year-old Manchester Orchestra frontman howling about such heavy…
I really wanted to play the sax when I was a kid, but ended up with the trombone, since a family friend let me borrow one. I got pretty good at it, and my folks finally bought me my own trombone — but once I was old enough to drive,…
Plenty of bands have overmined the new wave of British heavy metal and mixed it with a bit of glam rock and thrash. Sonically, Gritt Hitter (due at the hi-dive on Thursday, October 8) comes from that milieu, but instead of limiting itself to creating music in the shadow of…
If you like your militantly vegetarian metal fast, loud and brutal — splattered with specks of blood, shards of entrails and other bodily fluids — you owe it to yourself to catch Cattle Decapitation when the band stampedes into town with Soulfly and Prong. Earlier this year, after more than…
After one look at Strike Anywhere’s logo, it’s clear that this is a band with a heavily political stance. The logo, comprising three downward pointing arrows, is a nod to the Antifascist Circle, which was first designed to cover up Nazi swastikas. Strike Anywhere’s politically biting lyrics touch on such…
Like a Brillo pad stuffed with a gooey cream filling, Nebraska’s Box Elders smuggle sweet and luscious pop songs inside a raw, scratchy-as-hell shell. It’s not a new recipe, but Box Elders know how to make it their own; brothers Clayton and Jeremiah McIntyre, along with drummer/organist Dave Goldberg, ooze…
After his noise-rock band Calvin Krime broke up in the late ’90s, Sean Tillman performed as Sean Na Na before that project ultimately transformed into his current persona. Before it became something of a trend, Tillman performed profane and sexually oriented R&B as a solo act called Har Mar Superstar…
Few artists have explored the theme of paranoia as thoroughly as Time does on this latest release. In “Naked Brunch,” conspiracy-theory icon William Cooper is woven into that story about Paul McCartney being dead and Billy Shears acting as his stand-in for one of the most deft lyrical and conceptual…
Although it’s labeled as a mere demo, this three-song, self-titled disc from Science Partner — formerly the Tyler Despres band — is far from a sketch or work in progress. Tightly controlled and clean as a whistle, it offers a quick dose of acoustic-based indie pop that, while sugary and…
The distinction between indelible hip-hop and the dismissible kind is so narrow that artists can straddle the line without realizing it — which pretty much tells the story of Tr3CooH’s latest. He’s got a strong voice — gritty, light and nimble — but his prose can be inconsistent even when…
Onetime Westword contributor Marty Jones knows a few things about boozing and singing, so it’s no surprise that he’d dub his new five-song EP Drink & Song. While fronting his previous band, the Pork Boilin’ Poor Boys, he penned quite a few tunes about imbibing, and he also booked bands…
