Monoliths & Dimensions, the brand new release by Sunn O))), grabbed the top spot at Wax Trax for the week ending May 31. New releases by the Monks, Fishcherspooner, Clues and Eminem also placed in the top five. See the full breakdown after the jump…
Grizzly Bear’s Veckatimest, released last week on the Warp imprint, knocked Green Day down to the second slot at Twist & Shout for the week ending May31. Phoenix’s new album, Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix, grabbed the third slot while Steve Earle and Bob Dylan rounded out the top five. See the…
Spinal Tap fans, rejoice! At long last, the fabled “Saucy Jack” — the centerpiece to the Tap’s unfinished rock musical about the notorious London serial murderer Jack the Ripper — has been released. And it won’t set you back nearly as much as those long-rumored, impossible to find Japanese bootlegs…
Eminem’s Relapse grabbed the top spot for the second week in a row at Independent Records for the week ending May 31. Marilyn Manson’s High End Low, released last week on Interscope, came in second while Tech N9ne, Method Man & Redman and Busta Rhymes rounded out the top five…
The Dualisitcs have been on something of a hot streak for the past six months. They kicked off the year with a brand-new EP that drew great buzz, a solid review and warranted a feature from us. They followed that up a few months later with a Nirvana cover show…
This Freaky Friday is a slow burn. You will start off wondering what the fuck is wrong with me for posting this (well, I expect a lot of you always wonder exactly that). Then you will begin to be transfixed by Ms. Terri’s troll-like countenance and her sad, sad tale…
As you’ve undoubtedly gathered by now if you’ve read this week’s items on Tim Pourbaix, in Rough Mixes and the extended companion piece on the blog, tonight will mark one of the singer-songwriter’s last local performances as a resident of Denver. Pourbaix has made quite a mark on this town…
Oh, sweet monster-movie goodness! I’m beginning to think you all are designing just for me (not that I mind). This week’s fancy-pants flier (click on it for a bigger version) pays homage to the movie-monster icons of yesteryear with a sweet mashup on the classic Bride of Frankenstein to promote…
If you read the profile of the Rouge in this week’s issue, you know that the band blanches at the prospect of being considered a pop band. Nonetheless, one listen to Joshua Vaught’s instantly memorable melodies couched in the beyond tuneful framework of the compositions, and it seems glaringly remiss…
Just in time for the Westword Music Showcase, Spoke-In-Wordz and his folks put the finishing touches on his newest mixtape Catch the Buzz 3. The mix is a collection of freestyles, collaborations and unreleased material from the last few years. Mixed entirely by DJ Chonz, Spoke-In-Wordz and Playalitical trade verses…
Punk Rocks: Offspring, Alkaline Trio, The Vandals, Street Dogs, Frontside FiveRed Rocks AmphitheaterThursday, May 28, 2009 Better than: Attending a purported punk festival at the Pepsi Center. It was an unlikely forum for a punk show. Red Rocks Amphitheater isn’t the first venue that pops into my mind when I…
Last month, the Fort Collins Music Association hosted the area’s first ever all local music festival, dubbed the Fort Collins Music Experiment (FoCoMx for short). As hard to believe as it is that such an event never existed until this year, it’s not difficult to see that the supply definitely…
No Doubt, Paramore and The Sounds May 27 Fiddler’s Green Not so long ago, major bands in their prime, not past it, would seldom tour without a new album to promote, since recordings represented a — and often the — major profit center. But times have changed. In the age…
Some scars are forever, some fade with time. For the members of the Rouge, who all have matching cigarette-burn scars on their arms, it doesn’t matter how long the mark stays, as long as the feeling of camaraderie that caused them to do it in the first place lasts forever. …
There’s a scene in the Blues Brothers where Jake, Elwood and the rest of the band are playing “Stand by Your Man” at Bob’s Country Bunker. The camera pans across a bunch of loving couples holding each other, then comes to rest on a pathetic guy sitting alone, almost in…
In an era when we’ve all been hit over the head once too often with pop punk, a band like the Fire Drills (due at Bender’s Tavern on Saturday, May 30) can superficially sound like a continuation of that sort of thing. Except with this band, the most cursory of…
The most compelling thing about trance duo Kyau & Albert is the bizarre vibe of their podcast voiceovers: it’s very Dieter-from-Sprockets meets Hans & Franz, and it is hilarious (unintentionally, we presume). Those awkward interludes really liven up the mixes and make the whole thing more fun. The act is…
On its recently released fourth album, My Maudlin Career, Scotland’s Camera Obscura continues to swathe Tracyanne Campbell’s melancholy yet droll lyrics in the warm glow of ’60s pop and classic country, creating one of the year’s most lovable releases so far. On the eve of the band’s Stateside tour, we…
At the end of this month, Tim Pourbaix will leave his home town behind for New York — specifically, the hipster’s promised land of Williamsburg. Before he says goodbye, however, the Denver-based singer-songwriter — who garnered attention as a bassist with Kael Smith’s Bear vs. Larger Bear and Killfix —…
All backward-gazing compilations are exercises in nostalgia to some degree — but the best of the breed eschew sentimentality in favor of a more clear-eyed brand of affection. Exhibit A: Rocky Mountain Low, which captures the vitality, humor and exuberance of a punk and post-punk scene that flourished in the…
It doesn’t seem possible that anyone could put a new spin on the Americana thing, but with this latest offering from Adam Adam, that notion can be put to rest. Part folk, part Americana and part experimental lo-fi, these three songs explore new territories in each. Recalling the bleakest, most…
Maybe it’s bitterness, or creeping cynicism, or simply the fact that every new thing I hear has to measure up to the ever-larger pile of stuff I already know and love, but the older I get, the harder it is for anything to simply blow me away. Bottom of the…
