Blink’s return on a bill co-starring Weezer, Taking Back Sunday and Chester French could be really, really good or really, really bad. Pros: Because the trio’s only been on the shelf for four years, the rust isn’t that thick — and the impetus for their hatchet-burying, a horrific airplane accident…
If all you know about Amanda Blank comes from her guest spots with Spank Rock, you’re hardly prepared for everything she can do. On her debut album, I Love You, the multi-talented diva forges hip-hop, electro and punk into a dance-friendly amalgam while literally invoking R.E.M. and Romeo Void, among…
High priests of Florida’s legendary death-metal scene alongside Death and Deicide, the members of Obituary have been grinding morbidity and decay into heavy, guttural masterpieces since their seminal 1989 album, Slowly We Rot, a disc that helped define the genre and lock it forever into the metal pantheon. After a…
Hailing from Milan, Italy, OvO is essentially an international duo at this point, keeping up a rigorous yearly tour schedule that traverses Europe and North America. The act’s sound could be termed “gothic power violence,” in that its sharp-edged dynamics and acidic drones are an alloy of black metal’s unblinking…
Rambling down a country back road of old-time bluegrass and Americana-inspired ditties, Paonia’s husband-and-wife team of Bill Powers and Shelley Gray (best known for their work with the Sweet Sunny South) lead a nimble acoustic formation through a musical holler of lazy hounds, yawning porches, banjos and long-gone neon motels…
People don’t push enough — especially rock musicians, a generally sedentary lot who love to remain at rest, both on stage and in their brains. Snake Mountain, however, is all about pushing. And pulling. And yanking you through a ditch, a deep one full of dripping hypodermics and raw sewage,…
The subtly disturbing “Death Sides Now,” a Joni Mitchell cover, opens the latest full-length from Little Fyodor. Recalling the more demented side of Sun City Girls, Peace Is Boring is possibly this act’s most actualized release to date. Before punk became codified, weirdos like the Residents, Ranaldo and the Loaf…
For the Motet, the groove is paramount — no shock, since the band’s de facto leader, Dave Watts, is a drummer. But despite the presence of African inspirations that are at least as prominent as jazz-fusion influences, the beats on Dig Deep (available for free download at www.myspace.com/themotet) are slicker…
Ialways wanted to do a punk-rock dancehall thing,” says Daniel Wanush, taking a drag on his cognac-dipped cigarillo. Wanush’s image and the bizarre musical mash-up might be thoroughly ridiculous were it not for the source. Wanush, after all, is better known as King Scratchie, the frontman for one of Denver’s…
A native of Santa Fe, New Mexico, Travis Egedy, who performs under the name Pictureplane, has been rapidly gaining the attention of popular underground bands such as HEALTH, which praised the act on Pitchfork, invited Pictureplane to go on tour, and brought it to the attention of the Lovepump United…
After releasing a slew of records under such aliases as Mario Fabriani, White Collar Criminals and Frequent Fliers, Joey Youngman hit it big with his latest and greatest nom de beats: Wolfgang Gartner. Under that alias, introduced in 2007, Youngman has quickly built a worldwide buzz for his brazen style…
Boasting may seem like a hip-hop requirement, but it’s actually possible to play the rap game without overdosing on self-love every other line. For proof, direct your gaze to the following Q&A with Regan Farquhar, who performs as Busdriver. The subject of a Westword profile published in advance of his…
Summer is almost over, but it’s not gone yet. That’s why this week’s flier caught our eye — it grabs that last little bit of summer firmly and has a bit of fun with it. The show is Dressy Bessy at the Gothic this Saturday, September 5 and the poster…
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…
Welcome to the debut of our random midweek contest in which we give you a bunch of you a bunch of random things from our office for answering a bunch of random questions every week. Kind of random, eh? Anyhow, for the inaugural edition of our humpday hoedown, we thought…
When it opened in 2002, Dulcinea’s 100th Monkey was hip jazz, blues and funk spot, but within a few years it gradually morphed into more of club that embraced the jam nation. It was a fine addition to the Bianchi brothers empire that now includes Cervantes’ Masterpiece Ballroom, Quixote’s and Sancho’s Broken Arrow…
Behold another edition of the Single File road files: In this week’s episode, we find our heroes set up on the showroom floor of the Gap performing “Zombies Ate My Neighbors.” The in-store is purportedly in honor of the retailers 40th anniversary (really? forty years? who knew?). Which Gap? Dunno…
If karma truly is a boomerang, then may the thieving, unscrupulous jerkoffs who stole a truckload of gear belonging to End of Empires get audited by the IRS — or at least, like, I don’t know, come down with a nasty case of swine flu or something. Earlier this week,…
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*, KQMT’s Mountain Homegrown Show, the Colorado Sound, which originates at KRFC and is re-broadcast all over Colorado, and the Colorado…
Seems like Dressy Bessy is all about the videos these days. It was just last month we posted a bevy of Bessy vids and now we have a brand-new bit of eye candy from the delectable popsters. It’s a mad festival of astro-pops (I think that’s what those things are…
Hall & OatesSunday, August 30, 2009 Paramount TheatreBetter Than: Seeing most other bands of this vintageThe Hall & Oates show this past Sunday at the Paramount Theatre attracted a well-heeled, recital-worthy crowd. Aside from a few rogue, enthusiastic fans who just couldn’t resist dancing in their seats, the majority of the audience…
Matisyahu’s Light, released last week on Sony, grabbed the top spot while Boulder Acoustic Society’s in store performance last week might have helped Punchline, which has some insanely cool packaging, nab the second slot for the week ending August 30. Arctic Monkeys’ Humbug, Imogen Heap’s Ellipse and Ingrid Michaelson’s Everybody,…
