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Raleigh St.
Self-released

Although the music on this four-song EP doesn't skimp on commercial elements, it's actually quite an odd hybrid. For the most part, lead singer... More>>

By Michael Roberts

Published: July 02, 2009

Born in Winter

Paper and Roses
Self-released

Upon first listen to Paper and Roses, Born in Winter's latest, inevitable comparisons to Evanescence and Annette Olzon-era Nightwish are bound to... More>>

By Tom Murphy

Published: July 02, 2009

White Leather

White Leather
Self-released

Is White Leather for you? Find out by answering "true" or "false" to the following three statements: 1) My record collection is full of '90s pop... More>>

By Cory Casciato

Published: July 02, 2009

Take the Mickey

They Clean Up Nice EP
Self-released

Scrappy, dark, comedic synth-punk isn't exactly a formula for surefire success. And on They Clean Up Nice, Take the Mickey isn't able to pull... More>>

By Jason Heller

Published: July 02, 2009

Meese

Broadcast
Atlantic

Patrick Meese's friendship with Isaac Slade was handy from a getting-noticed standpoint. But now that Meese's namesake band is receiving the... More>>

By Michael Roberts

Published: June 25, 2009

Otis Taylor

Pentatonic Wars and Love Songs
Telarc

Otis Taylor's tenth album (issued locally this Thursday, June 25, at the Toad Tavern, in the company of John-Alex Mason) explores more love and... More>>

By Tom Murphy

Published: June 25, 2009

Dangerous Nonsense

Weapon of Choice EP
Self-released

In the press release that accompanies Weapon of Choice, Dangerous Nonsense lists one influence: human rights. Accordingly, it's clear the trio... More>>

By Jason Heller

Published: June 25, 2009

Delta Sonics

Never Enough
Self-released

Every time legendary North Carolina-based blues guitarist Steady Rollin' Bob Margolin comes to Colorado, he has the Delta Sonics back him up.... More>>

By Jon Solomon

Published: June 25, 2009

nervesandgel

It Was All Just a Waste
Self-released

Nervesandgel's albums are incredibly varied; sometimes they tend toward pop exploration, other times it's an exercise in the avant-garde. It Was... More>>

By Tom Murphy

Published: June 18, 2009

Eric Sanders

It Ain't All About You
Downtowner Media

"They say it gets better with time," Eric Sanders sings on "They Say All Kinds of Things," It Ain't All About You's fourth cut — and in... More>>

By Michael Roberts

Published: June 18, 2009

Fulcrum

Quack
Self-released

The quotient for another undistinguishable, melodic hard-rock outfit made up of pretty boys has been filled: Fulcrum is here. On Quack, we're... More>>

By Cory Casciato

Published: June 18, 2009

Fell

A Farewell To Echoes
Vacant Songs

Fell mastermind Josh Wambeke spends much of this new album in deadly earnest, Beck-circa-Sea Change depressive space-folk mode, which would... More>>

By Kyle Smith

Published: June 18, 2009

Super Seed

Planted
Self-released

The latest project by Lazyface vets Aaron Rocha and Andy Anderson doesn't qualify as an enormous departure. Planted, the subject of a Friday,... More>>

By Michael Roberts

Published: June 04, 2009

The Widow's Bane

The Widow's Bane
Self-released

Falling somewhere between Tom Waits and the Misfits (with a generous helping of classic seafaring work-song influence), the debut album from... More>>

By Adam Perry

Published: June 04, 2009

Hot Robots

Built to Tilt
Self-released

Power pop, by its nature, is a regressive genre, and Hot Robots is no different. The only thing that's in doubt is exactly which decade the band... More>>

By Jason Heller

Published: June 04, 2009

Peru or Germany

Peru or Germany
Self-released

This experimental pop duo's debut EP begins with the lo-fi indie rock of "Circus." Frayed but controlled guitar riffing and just-off-melodic... More>>

By Tom Murphy

Published: June 04, 2009

Various Artists

Rocky Mountain Low: The Colorado Musical Underground of the Late 1970s
Hyperpycnal Productions

All backward-gazing compilations are exercises in nostalgia to some degree — but the best of the breed eschew sentimentality in favor of a... More>>

By Michael Roberts

Published: May 28, 2009

Adam Adam

Those Clouds Look Like Bats
Black Mountain

It doesn't seem possible that anyone could put a new spin on the Americana thing, but with this latest offering from Adam Adam, that notion can... More>>

By Tom Murphy

Published: May 28, 2009

The Jim Jims

Bottom of the City
Fly Apart Records

Maybe it's bitterness, or creeping cynicism, or simply the fact that every new thing I hear has to measure up to the ever-larger pile of stuff I... More>>

By Cory Casciato

Published: May 28, 2009

Bobby Walker

Git It
Lynx Records

Bobby Walker has been playing professionally for close to four decades, and Git It feels like a document of his time touring around the States,... More>>

By Jon Solomon

Published: May 28, 2009

Glyphic

Everything Eventual
Self-released

Does saying that an album sounds as slick and professional as major-label fare constitute faint praise or the real kind? In the case of Glyphic,... More>>

By Michael Roberts

Published: May 21, 2009

The Alan Baird Project

Tonight's the Night for Kings
Self-released

Listening to this EP makes me wonder if I'm not missing the gene for liking the kind of music you hear on the radio. I mean, I can identify that... More>>

By Cory Casciato

Published: May 21, 2009

The Omens

Send Black Flowers
Hipsville Records

Although the Omens still show a strong Cynics influence here, there are marked departures from the formula. For one, this is probably... More>>

By Tom Murphy

Published: May 21, 2009

Stella Luce

Zugenruhe
Self-released

Take Una Volta-era DeVotchKa, subtract Nick Urata's Morrissey croon and replace it with the sometimes-Ani-DiFranco, sometimes-Sarah-Vaughan... More>>

By Jeff Otte

Published: May 21, 2009

Wentworth Kersey

EP (O)
Plastic Sound Supply

Jeffrey Wentworth Stevens and Joseph Kersey Sampson return with a second EP of eccentric, atmospheric cowboy pop in which Sampson's plaintive... More>>

By Eryc Eyl

Published: May 14, 2009