Chris Adolf

Do drugs make musicians more creative?

Do drugs fuel creativity? Is an addled mind essential to making great music? Does sobriety cause creative impotence? What if Jimi Hendrix had suddenly decided to enter a twelve-step program? Would Are You Experienced? have sucked? To answer this nagging question, you have to take a look at rock's re ... More >>

UMS 2012: Bad Weather California delivers an old-fashioned rock show

See Also: People of UMS 2011 Kicked off the first day of UMS by catching Bad Weather California in a very humid 3 Kings Tavern. People were packed in pretty tight in the middle of the room and mostly on the flanks. BWC played a loose, relaxed set like the guys had a group meeting beforehand and all ... More >>

Dirty Projectors

Friday, July 20, Bluebird Theater, 888-929-7849.

Jules Bethea-Rateliff and Joe Sampson talk about Joe's first official release, Kill Our Friends

See Also: Best of Denver 2008: Best Singer-Songwriter Since moving to Denver in 2000, Joe Sampson has been a highly visible member of the scene, but it's always been either as member of bands like A Dog Paloma or Bad Weather California, or collaborating on projects like Wentworth-Kersey or playing ... More >>

Bad Weather California premieres new video from Sunkissed

​Since the guys in Bad Weather California each have busy lives and work at different times, it's hard enough for them to find time to get together for an hour to practice, let alone make a music video. That said, making grandiose videos was just out of the picture for the band, so instead they ... More >>

Review: Nathaniel Rateliff at the Gothic, 11/25

NATHANIEL RATELIFF AT THE GOTHIC | 11/25/11There aren't a whole lot of singers with a magnetism capable of completely hushing a room the size of the Gothic, but Nathaniel Rateliff did just that near the end of his set on Friday night during his annual holiday show. Sure, there were some energetic mo ... More >>

Bad Weather California has the first record on Akron/Family's new Family Tree Records

​Update (11/10/11): While most press releases generally tend to be fairly rote and often times hyperbolic, the one we received about the forthcoming Bad Weather California record, which has Seth Olinsky rhapsodizing about first meeting and then later working with the band, was insightful, and ... More >>

Chris Adolph on Bad Weather California's two new records and how the band has evolved

Cory GustasonOver the past year, Bad Weather California has been hard at work on two albums, Sunkissed, recorded in Detroit with Akron/Family, and Demos and Live Takes for the Fans, recorded at bandleader Chris Adolf's home. The latter is being released this Saturday, April 22, at the Larimer Lounge ... More >>

Chris Jeffries

Self Titled EP
Self-released

Bad Weather California

Live Jammers EP
Self-released

Ghostland Observatory tops a stacked bill at this weekend's Westword Music Showcase

Westword Music Showcase headliners: Behold the majesty of Dirty Projectors

As you'll see from the exchange after the jump, Dirty Projectors mastermind Dave Longstreth isn't much of a talker. It's almost as if he'd rather let the music speak for itself -- and it speaks volumes, as evidenced by the act's latest opus, last year's Bitte Orca. One of the freshest sounding disc ... More >>

Akron/Family at Quixote's: Turn Knobs to Freedom

Akron/Family. Photos by Kiernan Maletsky​ Akron/Family • Bad Weather California • Widowers • Candy Claws 05.15.10 | Quixote's True Blue Obsessive record collectors, potentially-autistic sonic geeks, students of the craft, this one's for you. It was 1:30 in the morning and we still ha ... More >>

Paean album release at the hi-dive: Egg shakers and dirty dancing

Bad Weather California. Photos by Kiernan Maletsky​ Paean • Bad Weather California • Mehko & Ocean Birds 04.31.10 | hi-dive Paean spent eighteen months working on its debut full-length, Songs For Us To Sing. Three of the band's six members are siblings, and the album was recorded in a st ... More >>

Bad Weather California's next album being produced by Akron/Family

​ Splendid news coming out of the Bad Weather California camp this morning: In addition to joining Akron/Family (and Woodsman, Snake Rattle Rattle Snake, Widowers and the Dead Phish Orchestra) for its upcoming three-day residency at Quixotes on May 14-16, Bad Weather California is planning to ... More >>

As nervesandgel, Johnny Wohlfahrt mixes the dark with the comically absurd

Over the Weekend: Bad Weather California at the Hi-Dive

Pink Hawks, Bad Weather California, Pictureplane Saturday, January 9, 2010 Hi-Dive Ideology unites these three bands. Specifically, a belief in the importance of right now. Which makes for a set of live shows that is rough around the edges but breathing and dynamic, with the bands responding to the ... More >>

Over the weekend: Nathaniel Rateliff & the Wheel Variety Show

Nathaniel Rateliff & the Wheel Variety ShowSaturday, December 12, 2009Bluebird TheaterBetter Than: The V Ultimate Variety show featuring Wally Eastwood. An estimated 48 musicians took part in the third annual Nathaniel Rateliff and the Wheel variety show on Saturday night. All of them played br ... More >>

Q&A with Paul Garcia and James Barone of Pacific Pride

Bailey Ferguson​Recalling the frayed pop sounds of New Zealand indie-rock bands of the '80s and the angular, contorted psychedelia of Pavement, Pacific Pride has always focused more on quality over quantity. Beginning in 2004 after the dissolution of the original lineup of the May Riots, Pacific P ... More >>

Over the Weekend: Kissing Party at the Hi-Dive

Tom MurphyBad Weather California​ Kissing Party w/Bad Weather California Friday, August 28, 2009 hi-dive Better Than: What some would say of a Kissing Party show. The Bad Weather California set started off with Chris Adolf playing the recorder, making the song sound like a madrigal or a Kung ... More >>

The members of Bad Weather California are just young punks at heart

Bad Weather California

Young Punks
States Rights Records

Last Night's Show: These Are Powers at Rhinoceropolis

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, fl ... More >>

Littles Paia

Dew on the Needles
Self-released

Camped out for the Wheel, Bad Weather California and Young Coyotes

For me, Friday night's show at the hi-dive embodied everything that I love about Denver's shimmering live music scene. With three heavy hitters on the bill from three different-yet-complementary genres, I just wanted to camp out forever, right in front of the hi-dive's humble stage. Any one of the b ... More >>

Lil' Slugger/The Good Old Fashioned Sinners

Untitled Split CD
Self-released

Live Review: UMS Day One, Baker District

Over the Weekend...Bad Weather California, Velella Velella and Hearts of Palm @ hi-dive

Over the Weekend...Beach House, Papercuts, Future of the Ghost, Bad Weather California @ Hi-Dive

Last Night: the Widowers, Bad Weather California and the Dirty Projectors @ hi-dive

Period Piece

Making great-looking videos on a shoestring budget.

The Love Letter Band

Fear Not My Brothers, Fear Not My Sisters, For I Have Seen the Future... (Happy Happy Birthday to Me)

Hit Pick

Navy Girls

Simple Folk

Bad Weather California whittles indie pop down to the basics.