Mercury Rev amd the Duke Spirit
Sunday, December 14, 2008
Fox Theatre, Boulder
Better Than: The last unbelievably great Mercury Rev show at The Fox.
It probably would have been wiser to stay home on a night like this and not risk the icy streets and highways between Denver and Boulder just to see a rock band. But some rock bands go beyond just getting up on stage in their jeans and rocking out a little. Some bands command and deserve some daring on your part and that's why I couldn't pass on se
Steve GullickForming in London in 2003, the Duke Spirit has evolved a sound that
brings together elements of garage rock, soul, the blues and swirly,
noisy atmospheric rock. Rather than sounding like's trying to do too
many things at once, act's music sounds rich with textures
and emotional landscapes. A perfect mixture of the gritty and the
sublime, the Duke Spirit employs an impressive palette of sounds and moods.
Frontwoman Liela Moss cuts a commanding figure on stage with an image
reminiscen
All right, a few weeks ago we offered up our take on the ten worst moments of crossover disaster, ill-advised efforts to mate movies with music. Now it's time to look at the flip side of the coin, the ten movies in which music and Hollywood made great bedfellows, outstanding cinematic turns that were win-win in terms of elevating the film and as being a boon to the artist in question. Follow the jump for the full list.
Isaiah "Ikey" Owens is better know these days as the keyboardist of the Mars Volta. His versatile and creative musicianship, though, was honed in the '90s when he played with Sublime and later Long Beach Dub Allstars. Ikey first played with Omar Rodriguez-Lopez and Cedric Bixler-Zavala in the dub project De Facto before being invited to join the Mars Volta as a live keyboard player once Omar and Cedric's notable previous band, At the Drive-In, dissolved. Throughout the past decade, Ikey h
