These Are Powers, Extra Life, Bad Weather California, Zach Kahn, Masculine, Neon KnightsTuesday, March 3, 2009RhinoceropolisBetter Than: A show that doesn't feature gratuitous nudity on the rooftop of the venue. Ah, another chaotic night at Rhinoceropolis. The first of six groups to take the, uh, floor was The Masculine, a quartet of young lads from Denver currently working their way through the Big Book o' Post-Punk Sounds; last night they alternated mostly between Chapter 4: The Fall, and Chap
Alexis Johnson
Tuesday, June 2nd, 2009
The Boulder Theater, Boulder
Better Than: Most shows going through Boulder these days.
Brooklyn's Black Dice opened this show in what has lately become their typical fashion. Long gone, I suppose, were the harsh, brutally abrasive textures of old, replaced by something more, well, musical. Nonetheless, you're not likely to hear Black Dice on commercial radio anytime soon, because the threesome still blasted out sculpted chunks of jagged white noise, the g
As music critics, the most common question we get asked (and ask each other, for that matter) is, "What are you listening to?" The pervasiveness of this query is precisely what inspired Heavy Rotation, our latest feature. For the benefit of those who happen to be curious, we've compiled a list of all the things we're listening to this week. Feel free to chime in with your own picks after the jump.
Warren BedellA native of Santa Fe, New Mexico, Travis Egedy, who performs under the
name Pictureplane, has been rapidly gaining the attention of popular
underground bands from around the country for the last few years, most
notably HEALTH who took Pictureplane on a national tour in March 2009.
HEALTH was also instrumental in Egedy's signing to the Lovepump United
imprint. Because of this, Egedy has also received a decent amount of national press
including recent interviews in Pitchfork and Fa
