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2012 Stories by Tom Murphy

• Sharon Van Etten

  published March 22, 2012

  Although she grew up in New Jersey, it wasn't until Sharon Van Etten went to Murfreesboro, Tennessee, that she became exposed to the music that... More >>

• The Hive Dwellers

  published March 22, 2012

  If you haven't heard of K Records, you should seek it out immediately. The label's founder, Calvin Johnson, has embraced the idea of the... More >>

• Ryan McRyhew's Thug Entrancer, March 22 at the Meadowlark

  published March 22, 2012

  Over the past few years, Ryan McRyhew has been a perpetrator of innovative electronic music that more people should have heard. As a member of... More >>

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  White Rabbits: "It was more important to be emotionally visceral and in the moment'"

  published Mar 19, 2012

  White Rabbits (due tonight at the Bluebird Theater) moved from Columbia, Missouri to Brooklyn within a year of forming in 2004. The group's music had, from the beginning, an ineffably energetic spir... More >>

• Review: The Joy Formidable and A Place to Bury Strangers at the Bluebird Theater, 3/17/12

  published Mar 19, 2012

  THE JOY FORMIDABLE @ BLUEBIRD | 3/17/12With a sample of spoken words as an intro, one of the moments in the set where The Joy Formidable shined the brightest was during "Buoy." From its moody, murky b... More >>

• Review: Girls at GothicTheatre, with Unknown Mortal Orchestra, 3/16/12

  published Mar 17, 2012

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• Q&A with The Joy Formidable: "It's important to always push people to feel something"

  published Mar 15, 2012

  The Joy Formidable (due this Saturday, March 17, at the Bluebird Theater with A Place to Bury Strangers) is one of the most aptly named bands of the last several years. Its dream pop atmospheres and... More >>

• Ruban Nielson of Unknown Mortal Orchestra: "My musical career is like one big ticky tour"

  published Mar 14, 2012

  Unknown Mortal Orchestra (due Friday, March 16 at the Gothic Theatre) is based on Portland, Oregon. The band's frontman, Ruban Nielson, however, spent nearly a decade in punk band the Mint Chicks wh... More >>

• Accordion Crimes

  published March 15, 2012

  At the outset, the cutting build of "Extractor" lets you know that maybe these guys listened to a bit of Shellac. Bryon Parker's impassioned... More >>

• The Joy Formidable

  published March 15, 2012

  Ritzy Bryan and Rhydian Dafydd grew up together in North Wales and formed their first band, Tricky Nixon, while living in Manchester. When that... More >>

• Girls

  published March 15, 2012

  Christopher Owens and Chet White formed Girls in 2007, when the two met in the Bay Area. Owens, who was brought up in the Children of God cult,... More >>

• Dripfed drops in at Blast-O-Mat on March 20

  published March 15, 2012

  To a lot of people with mostly mainstream sensibilities and cultural affiliations, grindcore, crust and death metal will always just sound like... More >>

• Jesse Tabish of Other Lives: "There were about thirty people and half of Radiohead there"

  published Mar 13, 2012

  Update 3/14/12: Radiohead and Other Lives at 1STBANK Center review posted with photos and setlist. Other Lives (due at 1STBANK Center tonight with Radiohead) started in Stillwater, Oklahoma, in 200... More >>

• Sonolumina

  published March 8, 2012

  There doesn't seem to be much obvious or interesting use of stereo effects on recordings anymore. But on "Fire," the opening tune on... More >>

• Youth Lagoon

  published March 8, 2012

  It hasn't been that long that Trevor Powers has been playing out live with his band Youth Lagoon — or even very long since he started... More >>

• Men in Burka mix it up at Rhinoceropolis on March 8

  published March 8, 2012

  You may have seen Kamran Khan playing bass and other instruments in Modern Witch — and while that band was one of a wave of acts that got... More >>

• Pete Bell's Rhinoceropolis documentary offers insightful look at Denver's underground culture

  published Mar 06, 2012

  Sometime in 2011, a high-school student named Pete Bell started filming shows at Rhinoceropolis as part of a documentary project for his video class. Interviewing many of the people who made the place... More >>

• Pictureplane bidding farewell to Denver

  published Mar 06, 2012

  It was bound to happen. Travis Egedy is leaving Denver. When Egedy moved here in 2003 to go to art school, his one-man experimental music project, Pictureplane, was just getting off the ground. For a ... More >>

• Gemini Trajectory

  published February 23, 2012

  Charles Ballas is the kind of record nerd a lot of people wish they were but could never be. He's probably heard most things you'd throw his way,... More >>

• Review: Pure Sunshine II at BluebirdTheater, 3/2/12

  published Mar 03, 2012

  PURE SUNSHINE II @ BLUEBIRD THEATER | 3/2/12 It would be hard to have picked the star attraction for this show because the crowd changed and switched throughout the show with some people sticking aro... More >>

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  Matt Bischoff of '57 Lesbian: "You need to still enjoy the company of your friends and do stuff you enjoy doing with those people"

  published Mar 02, 2012

  '57 Lesbian (due tonight at the Bluebird Theater) came about when Matt Bischoff of the Fluid and the Frantix had some downtime and got together with his old friend and former Frantix drummer, Dave S... More >>

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  Megadeth at Fillmore Auditorium, 2/28/12

  published Feb 29, 2012

  MEGADETH @ FILLMORE AUDITORIUM | 2.28.12 See Also: Interviews with Chris Broderick and David Ellefson Last night at the Fillmore, Dave Mustaine stopped the show after "Whose Life Is It Anyway," an... More >>

• Magic Cyclops dishes on his American Idol tryouts

  published March 1, 2012

  Magic Cyclops began making himself known to audiences outside of Fort Collins around ten years ago. Whether he was putting on a show or running... More >>

• The Swayback

  published March 1, 2012

  Most bands offer few surprises more than ten years into their career. While people who never liked the Swayback probably won't be persuaded by... More >>

• Memoryhouse

  published March 1, 2012

  As is the case with many musicians who got their artistic start in another field, Evan Abeele and Denise Nouvion intended their project to be... More >>