One of the worst things you can do, in any part of your life, is get set in your ways and lose the willingness to revise your opinions, perspectives and beliefs. Dogmatism always stands in the way of growth and learning. As for me, I love being proven wrong.
Let's hear it for more new music! Better yet, let's hear it for more FREE, new music! Wait, even better -- how about more FREE, new music that kicks ass? Sound good? Yeah? Dig this: Hot Congress affiliates, the Jim Jims, are preparing to release their brand new EP, Bottom of the City, next week at the hi-dive in the company of the Kissing Party, Vitamins and Gangcharger. In honor of the occasion, we convinced the band to bless us with a copy of the new disc, impeccably recorded by Bryan Feuchtin
As previously reported, tonight's the night when Hot IQs retire their jerseys after an estimable six year run. A distinguished, iconic band that earmarked an era, the outfit is immortalized in the pantheon of local music alongside other dearly departed, homegrown legends such as the Fluid, the Czars, the Gamits and Planes Mistaken for Stars, among others. An outfit that began humbly as the Royal We (or Just Odessa, if you're a trivia buff) before morphing into Hot IQs, the group grew from a grou
Just caught a whiff of the line-up for this weekend's Hot IQs barbecue, and we must say it is absolutely, positively killer, friends. Besides being IQs' very last show ever -- unless, of course, the band plays the seemingly inevitable reunion show in a few years from now -- the line-up equates to nine hours of musical wonderment. Discount Cinema, a newer outfit that's got folks around town talking, headlines a bill that also includes the Kissing Party, Wire Faces, I Sank Molly Brown, Joshua N
Without question, Hot IQs, which took the stage for the last time this past weekend at the Larimer Lounge, made its mark on the Mile High City and will be sorely missed. Starting life as the Royal We, the outfit grew ably into its own as songwriters and left us with a slew of outstanding songs, from "Firecracker" to "Duck and Cover" to "Iggy Pop" to "Houndstooth," just to name a few. Those who attended the act's farewell show at the Bluebird this past June were treated to exhilarating renditi
