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2013 Stories by Tom Murphy

• Ethan McCarthy of Aqualung's Community Music Space talks about running a DIY space

  published Mar 13, 2013

  Aqualung's Music Community Space is closing its doors. The north Denver DIY space is hosting its final show this Friday night, with Deceased, Gravehill, 666 Pack, Glutgnar and 3BA. Aqualung's was st... More >>

• Tamed Animals

  published March 14, 2013

  "Repressed Memories," the lead track on this latest release from former Gang Charger drummer Dan Barnett, sounds like something at the nexus of... More >>

• Veronica Falls

  published March 14, 2013

  Veronica Falls formed in 2009, when Roxanne Clifford and Patrick Doyle moved to London from Glasgow and hooked up with the like-minded James... More >>

• Unknown Mortal Orchestra

  published March 14, 2013

  With his old band, the Mint Chicks, Ruban Nielson experienced some degree of success in the underground in Auckland, New Zealand; the group had... More >>

• Singer Brian Hagman on the story behind Il Cattivo's "Damages"

  published March 14, 2013

  Il Cattivo is a band that's made up of various veterans of the punk and hard-rock scene in Denver. When Matthew Bellinger got back to Denver... More >>

• Hi-Strung brings its haunted melodies to Larimer Lounge

  published March 14, 2013

  Samantha Donen came to Denver from British Columbia several years ago and has played bass for various outfits during her time here. From the... More >>

• The Gathering of the Clouds at the Walnut Room, 3/8/13 (review, photos)

  published Mar 09, 2013

  GATHERING OF THE CLOUDS @ WALNUT ROOM |3/8/13 Despite Victoria Cecilia's illness, Gliss managed to put in a solid performance at Gathering of the Clouds last night at the Walnut Room. If she indeed... More >>

• Bobby Hecksher of the Warlocks on playing with Beck and the Brian Jonestown Massacre

  published Mar 08, 2013

  The Warlocks, one of the earlier bands in the new wave of psychedelic rock, formed in 1999 when founder, singer and sole continuous member, guitarist Bobby Hecksher got some encouragement from Anton... More >>

• Russ Waterhouse of Blues Control on the unlikely influence of New Age music

  published Mar 07, 2013

  Blues Control is an experimental rock duo that got started in New York City in 2006 as a kind of side project from their New Age music project Watersports. The greater immediacy and visceral impact ... More >>

• Brandton Manshel of GNU on the struggles of keeping a DIY space going in Fort Collins

  published Mar 06, 2013

  For nearly two years, GNU: Experience Gallery has had the distinction of being one of the few DIY spaces in Fort Collins. Housed in a basement unit of a building in the city square on Linden Street,... More >>

• Distance Research

  published March 7, 2013

  Composed entirely on vintage analog electronic instruments and rendered directly to tape for a vivid and robust sound, this album has to be... More >>

• The Warlocks

  published March 7, 2013

  Bobby Hecksher has been the central figure of this band since its founding, in 1999. In 1994 Hecksher played bass on Beck's Stereopathetic... More >>

• Thao & the Get Down Stay Down

  published March 7, 2013

  Thao Nguyen started writing songs with her acoustic guitar in middle school in Falls Church, Virginia. While attending William & Mary, she met... More >>

• You don't want to miss Dragondeer's cosmic blues

  published March 7, 2013

  Dragondeer, the long-running side project of Swayback frontman Eric Halborg, has always been something you got to see once in a great... More >>

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  Using old faces and a new project, Land Lines created a space of its own

  published March 7, 2013

  Almost a decade ago now, Matson Jones was a humble band from Fort Collins with no real illusions about commercial success. But just like that,... More >>

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  The ten best metal shows in Denver this month

  published Mar 04, 2013

  There's a wide range of metal on tap this month that will appeal to an equally wide range of metal fans, from doom and grindcore to death metal and industrial, from local heroes to renowned internat... More >>

• The Constant Tourists

  published February 28, 2013

  With a diverse collection of sounds and styles, often within the same song, the Constant Tourists have captured a warm, organic vibe on... More >>

• Greensky Bluegrass

  published February 28, 2013

  For the better part of the past fifteen years, this band from Kalamazoo, Michigan, has toured like it was a life mission. True to its name, its... More >>

• Broncho

  published February 28, 2013

  Okalahoma band Broncho — the name is a term used for a mustang that has yet to be broken — plays back-to-basics rock and roll with... More >>

• Glam-metal group Throttlebomb will release its debut album on Saturday

  published February 28, 2013

  Bart McCrorey is probably best known for his skate-punk outfit Frontside Five. Throttlebomb (due Saturday, March 2, at the hi-dive)... More >>

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  FEATURED STORY

  Passion Pit's Jeff Apruzzese on being on SNL and getting hugged by the dude from Portlandia

  published Feb 26, 2013

  Passion Pit began in as a solo project of lead singer and keyboard player Michael Angelakos in 2007. The project quickly fleshed out into a full band that combined a keen sense for upbeat pop melodi... More >>

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  FEATURED STORY

  Mouse on Mars at Summit Music Hall, 2/23/13

  published Feb 25, 2013

  MOUSE ON MARS @ SUMMIT MUSIC HALL |2/23/13 As visuals flashed, streamed, scrolled, blinked, increased in luminosity and otherwise conspired to reflect the jittery, glitchy, sometimes manic and alwa... More >>

• Jan St. Werner of Mouse on Mars on how there's no proper code for behaving to his music

  published Feb 22, 2013

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• Confluence

  published February 21, 2013

  The ebullient melodies that informed the music of Ian Gassman's old band Night Owl can be heard throughout Confluence's new EP. But instead of... More >>

• XXYYXX

  published February 21, 2013

  Marcel Everett (aka XXYYXX) may have just turned seventeen this past October, but his most recent effort, a self-titled album he released last... More >>