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2006 Stories by Tom Murphy

• Action Packed Thrill Ride

  published December 7, 2006

  Spacemen 3 very well may have taken drugs in order to make music to take drugs to. Action Packed Thrill Ride, on the other hand, appears to... More >>

• Division Day

  published December 7, 2006

  Though the members of Division Day cite noise-rock auteurs Unwound and Drive Like Jehu as influences, their music has more in common with the... More >>

• The Haggardies

  published November 23, 2006

  The Haggardies' debut full-length, So Good You'll Think You're Eating! (scheduled for release this Saturday, November 25, at the... More >>

• Parenthetical Girls

  published November 23, 2006

  Originally named after an early Brian Eno and Robert Fripp song called "Swastika Girls," this Seattle band wisely settled on the more congenial... More >>

• Sepultura

  published November 23, 2006

  While it may be an overstatement to say that Sepultura is the most influential death-metal band of all time, you'd be hard-pressed to find a... More >>

• Yerkish

  published November 23, 2006

  Yerkish is a language created by experimental researchers to facilitate communication between chimpanzees and humans using geometric forms. And... More >>

• Johnny Knows Karate

  published November 16, 2006

  The men of Johnny Knows Karate (due at the Larimer Lounge on Monday, November 20) cite the calculatedly offensive Hate Fuck Trio as an... More >>

• Tom Heinl

  published November 16, 2006

  Tom Heinl's music is either inspired kitsch or demented satire. Like Gene and Dean Ween (a pair of admirable oddballs to whom he's often compared)... More >>

• Lee "Scratch" Perry

  published November 16, 2006

  Whether Lee "Scratch" Perry got his nickname through some association with the Devil or because he's well known for being more than a little crazy... More >>

• Day Dissolved Dream

  published November 9, 2006

  The music of Day Dissolved Dream evokes images of Denver's night skies in November: Clouds drift across the face of the moon while the... More >>

• Two Ton Boa

  published November 2, 2006

  Like a non-bluesy Johnette Napolitano seething with righteous venom, Sherry Fraser is back with a new album after a seven-year hiatus. Her band,... More >>

• Hillstomp

  published November 2, 2006

  These days, it seems like anyone with even the slightest notion of getting down to their roots -- particularly ex-punk rockers, for whatever... More >>

• Blue Blooded Girls

  published October 26, 2006

  Existing somewhere at the crossroads of complete abandon and tightly controlled psychosis, the music of the Blue Blooded Girls jerks the... More >>

• Sound Team

  published October 26, 2006

  Oftentimes a band waters down its artistic vision by incorporating too many disparate elements into its sound. Although Austin's Sound Team has... More >>

• Now It's Overhead

  published October 26, 2006

  Taking Pulp's more orchestral moments and sewing them to the dark, experimental synth pop of Macha, Now It's Overhead crafts what could be termed... More >>

• To Be Eaten

  published October 19, 2006

  Formed in 2003 by the members of Rivers Run Dry, To Be Eaten -- which will play one of its last shows ever this Friday, October 20, at the... More >>

• The Willowz

  published October 19, 2006

  Anaheim, California, seems an unlikely place for one of the country's better garage-rock revival bands to call home. Fortunately, the saccharine... More >>

• Nathan & Stephen

  published October 12, 2006

  The field of atmospheric pop is horribly crowded at the moment. And it only gets worse every time some trendy would-be hipster kid picks up a... More >>

• Sonnenblume

  published October 5, 2006

  Avant guitarist Todd Ayers has been a catalyst for some of the best and most compelling music to ever come out of Denver. He's performed with and... More >>

• Yo La Tengo

  published October 5, 2006

  More than twenty years and twelve albums into its career, Yo La Tengo remains one of the few vital bands that manage to release brilliant albums... More >>

• The Long Winters

  published October 5, 2006

  When John Roderick was a member of Harvey Danger, few would have predicted that he would go on to do bigger and better things. But after leaving... More >>

• Krakatau

  published September 28, 2006

  In August 1883, Krakatau, south of Java, violently erupted, producing a cataclysmic sound -- the loudest ever recorded by humans. Earlier this... More >>

• The Human League

  published September 21, 2006

  Few would suspect that a band like the Human League -- which prided itself on using no rock instruments on its first three albums -- was inspired... More >>

• DJ Krush

  published September 21, 2006

  Inspired by the 1982 cult film Wild Style, DJ Krush became one of Japan's first turntablists. Equally adept at breakbeats, trip-hop,... More >>

• King for a Day

  published September 7, 2006

  Although King for a Day (due at the Exchange Tavern on Saturday, September 9) sounds like it could come from Manchester, England, the... More >>