Five 13 trades in a very distinctive blend of metal, minted in the latter part of the second Reagan administration. If the names Fates Warning, Scorpions, Dokken or Warrant make you scoff or otherwise turn up your nose, you’ll want to steer clear of this album, which sounds like a…
Daralee Fallin is working with drum machines and synths with effects — familiar elements of electronic music — across this four-song release. From the jump, though, there’s an undeniably organic feel to the music and a warmth that doesn’t just cradle the listener in a sense of comfort and well-being;…
Listening to side one of this cassette-only release, you can’t help but think of the scenes from Videodrome where James Woods watches the TV show of the same name and becomes both repulsed and obsessed with the programming. The textured drone is reminiscent of those distorted images, and, while abstract,…
The promo sticker on Crowded House vocalist/guitarist Neil Finn’s 1998 debut solo disc, Try Whistling This, praised him as “one of the finest songsmiths of his generation.” It was a claim few pop lovers would dare to deny. If you’ve turned on a radio in the past two decades, chances are…
If not for Pavement all but deconstructing the dominant paradigm of rock music throughout the ’90s with albums like Slanted and Enchanted, Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain and Wowee Zowee!, so much of the underground rock that’s come out since the band parted ways in 1999 would have been much more…
Along with Claude Von Stroke, the Martin Brothers (actual brothers Christian and Justin Martin) have carved out a distinctive brand of dance music on the dirtybird label. The brothers have both notched some notable successes on their own, but their collaborations on tracks such as “Dum,” “Duckface” and “Stoopit” are…
Back in the 1980s, music journalism was a field people were falling over themselves to get into. This was hot on the heels of the Lester Bangs era, when DIY and punk movements started taking over and bands were coming out of every small town in America. It also marked…
Pavement is among the most influential rock bands of the ’90s, despite not quite becoming a household name, and you can hear the band’s influence in virtually all underground rock since then, from the slightly off-center rhythms, the jagged but melodic guitar riffs and the fascinatingly obtuse lyrics. Taking some…
Earlier this morning, we were blessed with a brand-new cut from Punchline and Fokis that features none other than the Mile High City’s own Spoke In Wordz. Spoke handles the third verse on “Threshold,” as the track is titled, and more than holds his own with his New York counterparts…
DJ Low Key is certainly no stranger to the local hip-hop scene. And for the past few years, he’s been making a name for himself nationally putting in work with such heavy-hitters as TiRon, Tanya Morgan and, most recently, Che Grand, whose Fixtape #2 project, mixed exclusively by Low Key,…
Club night and rave fliers tend to be…not elegant. Loud, crass, busy and clumsy are the rule of the day. Ugly, even. So it’s nice and refreshing when you see one that’s simple, clean and appealing, such as this week’s top flier pick for Jump Start, a monthly disco and…
Glitch Mob, which released its debut, Drink the Sea, this past spring, is slated to perform at the Fillmore Auditorium on Halloween night, Sunday, October 31. In August, the electronic trio also teamed up with MishkaNYC to release Drink The Sea Part 2: The Mixtape, which can be downloaded here…
Ryan Bingham, who won an Oscar for his theme song to the film Crazy Heart, claimed the number two and four spots at Albums on the Hill and Twist & Shout with his new album, Junky Star, released last week on Lost Highway. Arcade Fire’s The Suburbs and the Black…
Nothing says summer like hot dogs, ice cream cones, and Whitney Houston’s head exploding into a pile of raw meat. Artist Milton Melvin Croissant III (www.mmciii.com) and musician Colin Ward (of local outfits Phonebooks and Alphabets) celebrate the end of the season with “Summer Hitz 20XX,” a music-video collaboration that…
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Not sure if the Epilogues’ new video, “Hunting Season,” directed by Dillon Novak for Montauk Media, is meant to be scary (we suspect not), but it nonetheless scared the crap out of us, mainly because we harbor a latent fear of being buried alive. Not that we’re that big of…
NPR has been quietly building a reputation as the best place to get a peek at hotly anticipated new albums a week or two before their official releases (welll, for those of us who prefer to avoid leak sites and torrent servers, anyway). Today, it got a lot louder, with…
Merton is a Colorado resident who has gained a good amount of Internet celebrity for the spontaneous songs he plays for random people he meets on chatroulette.com. But he’s not just an online phenomenon. In fact, he frequently takes his show on the road, literally, by playing to passersby on…
Is it too early for Halloween? Heck, no, it isn’t, at least if you go by typical retail standards! Right now, department stores everywhere are stocking candy and costumes, and by golly, if it’s good enough for them, it’s good enough for us! Plus, this was just too good to…
SLEEP Git Some • Russian Circles 09.05.10 | Gothic Theatre view full slide show From brutal, clipped guitar work to huge, foreboding sounds created by guitars that are more akin to synths, Russian Circles scrolled through a wide range of styles that it executed with both ease and precision, like…
WILCO 09.03.10 | Jazz Aspen Snowmass “Don’t even think about yelling ‘Freebird,” Wilco frontman Jeff Tweedy responded to the guy in the crowd who screamed out the name of the Lynyrd Skynyrd tune early in Wilco’s ambitious two-hour set at the Jazz Aspen Snowmass Labor Day festival. “You can wait…
Vampire Weekend Dum Dum Girls • Beach House 09.03.10 | Red Rocks Amphitheatre view full slide show Dum Dum Girls opened the show with a notable display of confidence and music reminiscent of Elastica with a ’60s girl-group vibe. The combination of chiming textures and flowing atmospheres in the guitar…
