Y’all remember that old school jam by Timex Social Club? How do rumors get started…? It’s got to be more than, what, two decades since the group recorded that song, and that ponderous sentiment remains. How do these rumors get started? A few weeks ago, there was scuttlebutt that Tickle…
Stella Luce, one of more interesting acts to emerge from Ft. Collins recently, is issuing a brand new disc, Zugenruhe, this evening at home show at Avogadro’s Number. In honor of the occasion, the outfit — which is in the midst of performing on KRFC’s Live at Lunch right now…
Ancient Mith is currently wrapping up a European tour, and tonight — actually, in about ten minutes, which makes it this afternoon here in the Mountain time zone — he’s slated to perform at the Olympic Cafe Motionless CD release party with Buck 65, Erik Truffaz, Abd Al Malik, Demune,…
Local dubstep producer Alert is re-releasing his July 2007 release Dark Heart as a free, 320 kbps MP3 download. The two-track EP finds Alert emphasizing the dub in dubstep, especially the second track “Creepsville,” which could almost pass as a minimal, stripped and slowed-down slab of old-school Jamaican studio magic…
This week’s Freaky Friday is something truly special. Let me set the scene: It’s 1986 or ’87, somewhere in the Midwest. A grocery store wholesaler marketing and sales manager with delusions of grandeur alights upon a brilliant idea: let’s force our sales team to recreate the “Super Bowl Shuffle” as…
Eric SkiffResistor AnthemsSelf releasedReleased last year, Eric Skiff’s charming Resistor Anthems is a nine tracks of chirping, lo-fi electronic beauty. Reportedly created almost entirely on a borrowed Gameboy hacked into a musical instrument, the album displays an impressive grasp of melody, space and sound design…
Wow! Thanks to the astute observational skills of our homie Castro at A Walking Disaster, we just came across a tweet from DJ AM, in which he asserts that Chris Andersen “looks like an ed hardy model that listens to smashmouth vs linkin park mash ups.” Really, dude? Well, if…
Green Day 21st Century Breakdown (Reprise Records) The five years since the release of American Idiot, an album so strong that most critics didn’t believe the Green Day crew had it in them, have only added to the burden of expectations for 21st Century Breakdown, as Billie Joe Armstrong and…
Just received word that Immortal Dominion, the subject of a recent extended Q&A, has begun the search for a new drummer. Evidently, at the behest of Sterling Winfield, the producer of Primortal, the band’s latest platter, the outfit enlisted a studio drummer named Matt Thompson for the sessions. From the…
All right, so if you’re racking your brain trying to think of things to get us for our birthday or whatever, stop. Here’s what we want. Floorside seats to the Nuggets on Monday night? Naw. A 1987 Honda CRX? Eh-eh. We want a toy, this toy, in fact, a GG…
Well, what do you know? Here’s another reason this week to ditch out on work early. Who, us? Yeah, we know. We just couldn’t, right? Uh, yeah we could. Pffth! What are you talking about? You know how we roll. After we give you drop, in fact, we’re outta here…
Savoir Adore Machines EP Cantora RecordsThis follow-up to the New York-based quintet’s 2008 debut, The Adventures of Mr. Pumpernickel and the Girl with Animals in Her Throat, is the latest in a long line of artists releasing free download EPs to hype upcoming full-lengths. However, this three-song, 10-minute collection shouldn’t get…
Are you in a band? Is your band terrible? If so, I want to say thanks — thanks for sucking. You might think I’m joking but I want to assure you that I am fully serious. In a world filled with mediocrity, being truly terrible is a genuine accomplishment. And…
So before its show last night with the Freeze and Pitch Invasion at 3 Kings Tavern, Nardcore legends Dr. Know played an especially sweaty, late afternoon, show gratis in the back room of Wax Trax. We stopped by and as you can see from the picture above of Brian Hagman…
For those of you that managed to catch the show last night, apologies for the train wreck that was the segue (ahem, read dead-air) between the first and second song and the second and third song. Evidently, there was some button on the board that wasn’t engaged, which caused us…
On the 2002 album Circle Meets the Square, Kevin Devine included a song titled “Protest Singer,” and the tag has stuck to him ever since, despite his lyrical confession that “I’m only protesting myself.” But while plenty of his subsequent compositions have grappled with societal injustice and other crimes against…
When he opened Owsley’s Golden Road (2151 Lawrence Street) last year, Jay Bianchi gave me a whirlwind tour of the spot, showing off the venue’s multiple rooms and its massive patio, the only patio in the Bianchi brothers’ empire, which includes Cervantes’ Masterpiece Ballroom (2637 Welton Street), Quixote’s True Blue…
The latest in a long line of noteworthy bands from the unlikely creative breeding ground of Greeley, The Don’ts and Be Carefuls (due at the Meadowlark on Thursday, May 21) have been making their mark on audiences since spring 2008. Putatively a dance-punk band, these guys have gone beyond that…
Taking its name from something crazy Gary Busey said during his short-lived television series, I’m With Busey, Iwrestledabearonce doesn’t bother fitting into a specific musical genre. On the surface, the members of this sextet from Shreveport, Louisiana, are heirs to the spastic, experimental grindcore/death-metal hybrid that was the Locust. Singer…
The NIN/JA tour isn’t supposed to be an exercise in nostalgia, despite the presence of two ’90s icons (joined by Street Sweeper Social Club, buzzsaw king Tom Morello’s latest project). But one of the headliners avoids this trap more convincingly than the other. The two Jane’s Addiction tracks on a…
Decemberists main man Colin Meloy must have a dandy record collection. The influences throughout the band’s latest opus, The Hazards of Love, are enough to make older prog heads glow with sweet nostalgia. Love is a suite, each track leading into the next, its narrative told via an engaging mixture…
“We’ve never wanted to go out and blow our own trumpet, really,” Doves drummer/vocalist Andy Williams told Westword back in 2002. “We want the music to do the talking, and if people like it, that speaks volumes.” In the years since, Williams and his cohorts (twin brother Jez and bassist/vocalist…
