Like Midlake, Cotton Jones and Sub Pop labelmates Fleet Foxes, Blitzen Trapper is a key player in the current outpouring of poignant lo-fi rock influenced by ’70s legends like CSNY, the Band and Neil Young. However, spearheaded by the quixotic lyrics and vocals of Eric Earley, Blitzen Trapper stands out…
The music of producer/DJ/vocalist ill-esha is a unique take on some of the most exciting developments in recent dance-music history. Let’s start with glitch-hop’s bit-damaged aesthetic of urban futurism; from there, how about we mix in a healthy slug of dubstep whomp and grime? And let’s not be elitist: We…
This week’s flier caught our eye a few days ago, since the main image of it is Adam Reker’s cover art for the new St. Elias CD Altered Beast. It’s a CD cover! It’s a flier! And if you go to the CD release show this Friday at the hi-dive…
This is distinctly American music. Working with a lineup that’s fluctuated between six and ten and has included members of Jurassic 5, Ozomatli has for some fifteen years been blending Latin rhythms and hip-hop influences for a sound that’s as big as it is varied and multicultural. The U.S. State…
Crystal Castles • Rusko, Sinden, and Destructo 08.09.10 | Ogden Theater, Denver, CO Whatever happened before or after Crystal Castles’ set last night at the Ogden really didn’t matter. In fact, Destructo and Sinden’s pre-sets and whatever Rusko followed up with need not to have happened at all, for you…
Indie troubadour Sufjan Stevens, who’s set up a month-long fall tour that will include some of the country’s most historic theaters and venues, is set to visit the Paramount Theatre on Tuesday, November 2. Stevens will be performing fully realized versions of songs he initially debuted at small clubs late…
Props are due to the Foodchain, which has reportedly signed a distribution deal with Statik Selektah’s Showoff Records imprint. Statik delivered the news himself last week during his Showoff Radio program on Sirius’s Shade 45 channel (listen after the jump), when he played “Rich Girl Song,” a cut featuring Big…
Warlock Pinchers Magic Cyclops • Hot White • Melvins Lite • Taun Taun • Itchy-O 08.07.10 | Gothic Theatre | Night Two Before taking the stage, Magic Cyclops or someone was playing a bit of the music from the movie Fletch over the P.A., which was amusing on its own…
WARLOCK PINCHERS Cap’n Fresh and the Stay Fresh Seals • Murder Ranks • Dressy Bessy 08.06.10 | Gothic Theatre | Night One Because some of its shows are so absurd, it’s hard to tell if Cap’n Fresh and the Stay Fresh Seals is some kind of a comedy act or…
As Warped Tour winds down for another summer, Aaron Thackeray shadowed the hardest partier on the tour, Andrew W.K., capturing his average day. Below are a few highlights; check out the full gallery of AWK’s day in our slide show: Day in the Life: Andrew W.K.’s Denver Warped Tour…
Since Crystal Castles first pissed its way into my heart with the irritatingly catchy “Alice Practice” in 2007, I haven’t been at peace with my manic devotion to a duo that seems to take pride in being total assholes. These total assholes, however, keep making great records that I can’t…
Freelance photographer Mark C. Austin is in Chicago this weekend for Lollapalooza. Here are photos from Saturday’s sets. More coming Monday…
Day one of Lollapalooza in Grant Park in Chicago is in the books. Freelance photographer Mark C. Austin brings back these photos from the festival…
#COHipHop Unity Concert 2 08.05.10 | Quixote’s True Blue A strong hip-hop vibe permeated the air at Quioxte’s last night — fitting, since we were all there for the #COHipHop Unity Concert 2. Before everything got going in earnest, a cluster of performers and beat battle contestants chopped it up…
Tonight, Thursday, August 5, Quixote’s True Blue — that’s the place to be if you love local hip-hop. Presented by Yoseph of Fly Magazine, Dent and Shedrick Garrett, #COHIPHOP Unity Concert 2 is going down. The aim, as you’ve probably deduced from the name of the event, is to bring…
They were always the band I thought should have been really big,” declares Dale Crover of the Warlock Pinchers. “Certainly they were doing metal mixed with rap before it became popular, and they were also a lot better than a lot of those later bands. More like if rap was…
In April, Paul Piciocchi announced that he was closing Tryst after six years and moving the concept to Playa del Carmen. Over the next week, he remodeled the space at 1512 Larimer Street, reopening it as Dive on Fifteenth. But now Dive has taken a dive, and the spot turned…
Spilling Over Every Side — that’s the name of Pretty Lights’ latest release, and what a perfectly fitting title. Derek Vincent Smith simply doesn’t stop. When we checked in with the Pretty Lights mastermind this past spring, he had just released his new EP, Making Up a Changing Mind, had…
Like a thermometer crammed up the rectum of punk rock, the Warped Tour has been taking the temperature of teenage rebellion for fifteen years now. This year’s prognosis: typically cold-blooded. As usual, though, the day-long festival has a couple of hot spots on its gazillion-band bill, and one of them…
Too mathy and precise for a lot of hardcore fans and too weird and noisy for a lot of metalheads, the Dillinger Escape Plan has nonetheless carved a niche for itself in both realms. Starting in Morris Plains, New Jersey, the Plan quickly made a name for itself with frenetically…
Way back in 2006, patchy duo Crystal Castles began a rise to high-art infamy based mostly on the negative hype of its supposed 8-bit plagiarism. Along with getting slammed for stealing artist Trevor Brown’s “Bruised Madonna” imagery for unauthorized merchandise (not to mention unsanctioned use of the Chanel logo), the…
George and Caplin’s latest release is one of a dying breed — an album that demands to be listened to as an album. Yes, there are some fine songs on it that can stand alone (particularly “Wilderness Eyes” and “Wanderin'”), but when taken as a whole, the disc really shows…
