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2011 Stories by Tom Murphy

• Review: Goldrush Festival on South Broadway, Delite and hi-dive, Night One, 9/16/11

  published Sep 17, 2011

  GOLDRUSH FESTIVAL | NIGHT ONE, 9/16/11With no real low points at the first night of the Gold Rush festival, one performance that stood out was that of Drew Englander during his set as R E A L M A G I ... More >>

• The Organizers of Goldrush Festival on the festival and blogging

  published Sep 16, 2011

  For the next two days, the Goldrush festival will take place at Delite and the hi-dive. The event was the brainchild of three local music bloggers: Jake Martin, Crawford Philleo and Ryan Pjesky. For t... More >>

• Peter Hook on revisting classic Joy Division songs and what he learned about Ian Curtis

  published Sep 15, 2011

  With his ground-breaking band Joy Division, Peter Hook (due this Monday, September 19, at the Bluebird Theater) perhaps accidentally created a style of playing bass that made the instrument not just a... More >>

• Peter Hook revisits Joy Division's music, September 19 at the Bluebird

  published September 15, 2011

  Joy Division made an immediate mark on the world of music with its two full-length albums, 1979's Unknown Pleasures and 1980's... More >>

• Extra Kool & Satyre

  published September 15, 2011

  Extra Kool and Satyre once worked together as Optik Fusion Embrace, and the two recently teamed up again for this album full of wry... More >>

• Queensryche

  published September 15, 2011

  Called the Mob when it first started out in Seattle in 1981, Queensrÿche quickly developed what would later be called a "progressive... More >>

• Critic's Choice: Osyluth performs September 17 at 1.21 Jiggawatts

  published September 15, 2011

  Big suprise that a bunch of guys who might have been gamers formed a metal band and named themselves after one of the denizens of Hell in... More >>

• The Kevin Costner Suicide Pact doesn't stick to a script

  published September 15, 2011

  Sketch comedy is the best way to describe it," says Nathan Wright, discussing the process of composition within the Kevin Costner Suicide... More >>

• Review: The Don'ts and Be Carefuls at Hi-Dive, 9/9/11

  published Sep 10, 2011

  THE DON'TS AND BE CAREULS at the HI-DIVE | 9/9/11 The Don'ts and Be Carefuls did something at this "Triple EP Release" show that you just knew the band had in it but you might not expect to see: they... More >>

• The Raven and the Writing Desk

  published September 8, 2011

  Picking up where Recidivist, the band's audacious 2010 debut album, left off, this EP from the Raven and the Writing Desk displays an... More >>

• Explosions in the Sky

  published September 8, 2011

  Since forming in Austin in 1999, Explosions in the Sky has had a bit of a charmed career for an instrumental rock band in the wake of critical... More >>

• King Mob performs on September 13 at Moe's

  published September 8, 2011

  Anyone who saw experimental pop band Lil Slugger probably wouldn't have guessed that Ben Martin was a talented R&B singer. Slugger, after all,... More >>

• The Don'ts and Be Carefuls show songwriting growth on the Sun Hits EP

  published September 8, 2011

  "I actually just got out of jail four hours before that show." Casey Banker, frontman for the Don'ts and Be Carefuls, is relating the... More >>

• Tollund Men releases "Goodbye Horses" video

  published Sep 06, 2011

  Tollund Men is no longer just a bunch of poor saps buried in a Danish peat bog from the time before the Roman Republic transitioned to Empire. In Denver, it's the solo project of Neal Samples, with so... More >>

• An interview with Ideal Fathers in advance of their farewell show tonight at the Larimer

  published Sep 03, 2011

  Over the course of a line-up change or two, Ideal Fathers, playing its final show tonight at the Larimer Lounge, developed a sound and a stage presence that probably would have otherwise been lumped i... More >>

• The members of Mitya discuss their songwriting process in advance of tonight's CD release show

  published Sep 01, 2011

  Borrowing its name from the carousing, profligate brother in Fyodor Dostoyevsky's classic novel, The Brothers Karamazov, Mitya (due tonight at Larimer Lounge with Young Analogs and Sparkle & Burn) has... More >>

• Danielle de Picciotto and Alexander Hacke on The Love Parade, Neubauten and Berlin

  published Aug 31, 2011

  Danielle de Picciotto and Alexander Hacke were both important figures in the recent cultural history of Berlin. De Picciotto was one of the co-founders of The Love Parade, a long-running electronic mu... More >>

• Clinging to the Trees of a Forest Fire

  published September 1, 2011

  "Lower Than Life, High as the Sky," the opening track on Clinging to the Trees of a Forest Fire's new EP, is built on a foundation of death... More >>

• Ganglians

  published September 1, 2011

  With a name that is an amalgamation of "gang" and "aliens," this Sacramento band has often been lumped in with the summery surf/garage pop... More >>

• Balkans

  published September 1, 2011

  Someone is bound to compare Balkans to the Strokes because of the spiky, jangly guitar sound and the vocals, which are just shy of crooning.... More >>

• Ideal Fathers farewell show, September 3 at the Larimer Lounge

  published September 1, 2011

  For a long time, "dance punk" was a bit of a fashionable joke in music. The guys in Ideal Fathers (playing a farewell show this... More >>

• Review: Christie Front Drive Denver reunion at the Larimer Lounge, 8/28/11

  published Aug 29, 2011

  CHRISTIE FRONT DRIVE at LARIMER | 8.28.11Christie Front Drive, the band that embodied the best of what emo was about and could be, last played a show on September 1, 2007 at the Marquis after a ten ye... More >>

• Review: The Christines at the hi-dive, 8/27/11

  published Aug 29, 2011

  THE CHRISTINES at HI-DIVE | 8.27.11The last time the Christines played, it was December 6, 2008 at the hi-dive, around the release of its most recent offering, Here It Comes Again. This time around, i... More >>

• Denver Afterdark travelogue: Safe Boating, Gauntlet Hair, Force Publique and more

  published Aug 27, 2011

  DENVER AFTERDARK on LARIMER | 08.26.11While there were many memorable performances at the Denver Afterdark festival -- presented by Analog Space, curated by Peter Black and spread out between several ... More >>

• Joe Plummer of Mister Heavenly on "doom-wop," Michael Cera and Johnny Marr

  published Aug 25, 2011

  Mister Heavenly (due tonight at the hi-dive with WATERS and ManCub) came together when Ryan Kattner approached his friends Joe Plummer of Modest Mouse and Nick Thorburn of Islands with some songs he'd... More >>