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2011 Stories by Tom Murphy

• Critic's Choice: Glass Hits plays November 4 at the Larimer Lounge

  published November 3, 2011

  Joe Piza, Dave Beckhouse and Brian Wilson were in hardcore band Warsaw Surrenders around the middle of the last decade. That band split too... More >>

• Adam Granduciel of the War on Drugs on the band's history and Slave Ambient

  published Oct 30, 2011

  The War On Drugs (due Sunday, October 30, at the hi-dive with Purling Hiss and Carter Tanton) started to take shape when Adam Granduciel moved back to the East Coast from Oakland to settle in Philadel... More >>

• Review: Portishead at 1STBANK Center, 10/27/11

  published Oct 28, 2011

  PORTISHEAD at 1STBANK CENTER | 10/27/11For the last show of its tour, Portishead put on one of the finest performances anyone is likely to see this year or any year. The band's energy, urgency and int... More >>

• Geoff Barrow of Portishead on Blue Lines, Banksy, Silver Apples and his act's early success

  published Oct 26, 2011

  Portishead (due Thursday, October 27th, at 1stBank Center) wasn't the first band associated with the aesthetic of trip hop but it is the most commercially successful with major hits in the 1990s. The ... More >>

• Review: Check Yo Ponytail 2 at Summit, with Spank Rock, Franki Chan and more, 10/25/11

  published Oct 26, 2011

  CHECK YO PONYTAIL 2 at THE SUMMIT | 10/25/11The highlight of the evening last night came in Big Freedia's set when she showed the audience that she wasn't one to just tell people how to bump, but that... More >>

• Portishead's Geoff Barrow on the Silver Apples and Banksy

  published October 27, 2011

  For many people in America, Portishead was their introduction to the lush, soulful, experimental music collectively stamped as trip-hop. From... More >>

• The War on Drugs

  published October 27, 2011

  When Adam Granduciel moved to Philadelphia nearly a decade ago, he met lo-fi rock wunderkind Kurt Vile and started the first incarnation of the... More >>

• Maria Taylor

  published October 27, 2011

  Maria Taylor grew up in Alabama, where she was part of the band Little Red Rocket with her friend Orenda Fink. Fink and Taylor ended up moving... More >>

• Colfax Speed Queen plays October 27 at the Meadowlark

  published October 27, 2011

  Maybe the name Colfax Speed Queen refers to a weird alcohol- or amphetamine-induced daydream someone had while doing laundry at... More >>

• Gauntlet Hair has found a new home in laid-back Colorado

  published October 27, 2011

  You can't help but calm the fuck down when you move to Colorado from inner-city Chicago," notes Craig Fleischman. The drummer, better known as... More >>

• Naeem Juwan of Spank Rock on "#1 Hit," Bowie, Prince, James Brown, and the perils of nostalgia

  published Oct 25, 2011

  Spank Rock (due tonight at Summit Music Hall for the Check Yo Ponytail 2 tour) emerged in Philadelphia around the middle of the last decade, making music that brought together threads of hip-hop, rock... More >>

• Aberrant

  published October 20, 2011

  Leave it to a South American record label to release a comprehensive double-album retrospective of this influential local death/grind metal... More >>

• Joshua Trinidad

  published October 20, 2011

  The songs on this album conjure the sensation of something unexpected in the weather — unseasonably cold nights in summer or uncommonly... More >>

• Opeth

  published October 20, 2011

  Sweden's Opeth started out as a fairly straightahead death-metal band, but in 1992, after drastic lineup changes, the band, led by singer and... More >>

• Moonface

  published October 20, 2011

  Spencer Krug is probably best known to the world as a former member of Montreal's Wolf Parade. Since that band took a break, Krug has been... More >>

• all capitals brings its punk-infused indie to the hi-dive October 21

  published October 20, 2011

  Guitarist Paul Christus and drummer Tony Corona should be given some kind of medal for weathering numerous lineup changes over the years and... More >>

• Chuck Billy of Testament on the 70,000 Tons of Metal cruise, Reign in Blood and Gene Hoglan

  published Oct 18, 2011

  Testament (sharing a bill tomorrow night at Summit Music Hall with Anthrax and Death Angel) is one of the bands that make a strong case for expanding the Big 4 to the Big 5 (or Big 6, if the often-ove... More >>

• Scott Ian of Anthrax on Worship Music, comic books, Doctor Who, VH1 and interviewing Ozzy

  published Oct 18, 2011

  Anthrax (due Wednesday, October 19, at Summit Music Hall) is one of the Big 4 thrash bands from the '80s, and the only one originally based on the East Coast. More than most metal bands, Anthrax seeme... More >>

• Atsuo of Boris on the band's numerous collaborations over the years and New Album

  published Oct 13, 2011

  Boris (due Saturday, October 15, at the Marquis Theater) has had one prolific career thus far, with seventeen albums released since its start in 1992 and multiple collaboration projects with artists l... More >>

• Howard Jones on performing Human Lib and Dream Into Action in their entirety on this tour

  published Oct 12, 2011

  Howard Jones (due Saturday, October 15, at Summit Music Hall) was one of the most successful and popular synth-pop artists of the 1980s. Jones's songs were uplifting, but never saccharine, and he had ... More >>

• Shadowcaster

  published October 13, 2011

  Originally conceived as part of an elaborate presentation that includes a flashing strobe to go along with elements of binaural audio, this... More >>

• Boris

  published October 13, 2011

  Anyone trying to guess Boris's influences would have a hard time doing so just from listening to one song off of one album. And it's not just... More >>

• Howard Jones

  published October 13, 2011

  Within a year of getting his start in the early '80s, Howard Jones performed on Top of the Pops and subsequently garnered a record deal... More >>

• Catch Bearsnail on October 15 at the Meadowlark

  published October 13, 2011

  Kyle Harris has lived all over this country and seen the ups and downs of personal, professional and political life. But instead of cultivating... More >>

• JD Samson of MEN on her art and the reaction to her political piece in the Huffington Post

  published Oct 10, 2011

  JD Samson of MEN (due Thursday, October 13, at the Bluebird Theater) was once a member of Le Tigre, a band that became synonymous with the electroclash genre. For nearly a decade, Le Tigre wrote some ... More >>