Tonight at Beta, local experimental electronic auteur CacheFlowe is releasing his new dubstep EP Cache, Stacks and Queues. It features a collaboration with Brer Rabbit of Flobots and a remix by Planet Mu dubstep artist Starkey, who will be headlining the event. And as an extra special treat for those…
This evening at the Skylark, the members of Colorado’s rowdier rockabilly inspired country bands, the Calf Branders, will be tucking in their cowboy shirts, plugging in their Fender Twins and kicking off a party to celebrate the release of their new disc, the fittingly titled, It’s Time to Party. Self…
President Barack Obama has just passed his historic first 100 days in office and what better way to look back on it than via a goofy YouTube mashup via the magic of AutoTune? None. None better way, I say. And so I present to you “Obama Flashback,” a look at…
As you can see from the picture to the left, which features 3OH!3 co-frontman Nathaniel Motte chilling at Bamboozle with the most baddass little chimp darling black and white capuchin on his shoulder, life is clearly very good right now for the boyzos from the People’s Republic. Hot on the…
The DeadThursday, May 7, 2009Pepsi CenterBetter than: a Grateful Dead cover band but at times worse than some of Phil Lesh’s bands — wait, the Dead kind of is a Grateful Dead cover band.Singer/guitarist Bob Weir, always the wild-eyed youngster in the Grateful Dead, was in his late teens and…
The late, lamented Machine Gun Blues was a band known not only for its raucous, high-energy rock and roll but for the intensely theatrical and physical performances of its frontman, Aaron Collins, who would get naked, throw himself around the stage, often careening into the audience and end up covered…
Our premier flier for the week advertises the upcoming CD release party for the Ideal Fathers debut EP on Saturday, May 16, at the Larimer Lounge. The Fathers are great live performers who bring some serious energy, the EP kicks ass and this is pretty much a can’t-miss show –…
O.N.E. is usually the Infinite Mindz crew member who is tasked with singing a majority of the hooks for the group’s songs. But little did fans know, in addition to being a talented vocalist, he’s also a rapper and flexes both skills on his new mixtape, Inglorious Bastard, which was…
In this week’s edition of Rough Mixes, we printed excerpts of Tom Murphy’s recent chat with Dave Dictor from MDC. As you’ll see from the full transcript posted after the jump, the band’s frontman is still very much an iconoclast championing ideals that are as provactive as the revolving moniker…
At times, singer-songwriter Elvis Perkins admits, anonymity is more appealing to him than personal acclaim. “I didn’t do any singing in the first two bands I was in, and it took me a while before I had the nerve or the material I deemed worthy enough to even step onto…
“How does it feel to almost be forty?” asked the bartender at Kazmos Lounge (1381 Kalamath Street) after looking at my driver’s license. “I’ll be forty in a few months, too.” It took me a few moments to formulate a coherent sentence. “Uh, I try to not to think about…
Emerging from the rubble of experimental-rock terrorists Bangtel, Dinner With Cannibals pursues a similarly twisted musical vision. But with a name that alludes to Looney Tunes composer Raymond Scott, these Cannibals (due at the Larimer Lounge on Friday, May 8) also take a comically playful approach to their creative output…
Just like that Mexican flu took DNA from pigs, birds and people and cooked it up into a wholly new and highly infectious mix, San Francisco’s Lazer Sword has swiped bits and pieces from hip-hop, electro, drum and bass (and pretty much anything else the band could lay its hands…
Naming your band Millions of Dead Cops in the late 1970s was a risky move, but it was one that encompassed well the spirit of frontman Dave Dictor and his band. For thirty years, the outfit has been writing hilariously arch and frantic songs that slice at the hypocrisies and…
Before Napalm Death, the bracing amalgam of extreme metal, brutal hardcore and intense speed called grindcore did not exist. With the groundbreaking albums Scum and From Extinction to Obliteration, Napalm Death set a high-water mark for raw power and mind-shearing tempos. In fact, the band holds a world record for…
The prospect is more than a bit jarring: Seeing one of the founders of Ween play a show without the other seems comparable to catching a Bud Abbot routine minus Lou Costello. But Gene Ween (aka Aaron Freeman) is taking a break in Ween’s demanding live and studio schedules to…
No surprise that the Virgins, appearing with Anya Marina and Lissy Trullie, have become New York City’s latest candidate for musical celebrity. Fashion-wise, leader Donald Cumming and his mates bridge the gap between scruffy and glammy in a manner that’s apt to entrance Drew Barrymore, and while the band’s self-titled…
Anyone whose ears are still ringing from the recent My Bloody Valentine show can attest that it was one of the most mind-numbing outings to hit this city in a long time. When the Glasgow-based post-rock outfit known as Mogwai comes to town, there’s a good chance it will be…
Perhaps best known by his performing moniker, Thanksgiving, Adrian Orange has been gracing living rooms and other DIY stages for the past decade. Orange’s sound is the type of avant-folk that inspires immediate comparisons to Phil Elverum of Microphones fame, who, as it happens, has been known to perform several…
According to Nathan Weaver, guitarist for Washington-based Wolves in the Throne Room (joined on this bill by Gojira and Krallice), his band combines “Cascadian eco-spiritual awareness and the misanthropic Norwegian eruptions of the ’90s” — a description that could hardly be more pretentious. And yet, surprisingly enough, a listen to…
“Hyena Arms,” the opening track on Peña’s latest effort, Best Friends, successfully sets the tone for the entire album, with its loping rhythms and logical but ultimately unpredictable changes. Partly introspective, partly aggressive with a pall of impending menace, the all-instrumental songs found here sparkle with a certain mathiness —…
Perhaps having a short time to live makes you reach for everything you hoped to accomplish in a longer lifetime. That could explain why A Better Place is so crammed full of ideas, influences and styles over the course of its fourteen tracks. Gregory Hill and his cohorts channel the…
