Subject: My Bloody Valentine

• 45 Second Reviews: Colour Revolt, Ours, Tokyo Police Club, Jordan Zevon

  April 21, 2008

• The Mating Game: Eric Halborg from the Swayback

  July 15, 2008

• Live Review: Film School, Moonspeed and Ascaris at Larimer Lounge

  July 14, 2008

• Live Review: Shearwater and Wye Oak at hi-dive

  September 3, 2008

• Live Review: A Place to Bury Strangers

  October 9, 2008

• Trashcan Sinatras

  Weightlifting (SpinArt)

  August 19, 2004

• Baby Birds Don't Drink Milk, Yellow Elephant and Married in Berdichev at Rhinoceropolis

  Photo: Tom Murphy Baby Birds Don't Drink Milk w/Yellow Elephant and Married in BerdichevSaturday, November 29th, 2008RhinoceropolisBetter Than: Seeing well-established bands in a less idealistic setting.As a relatively new, experimental band, Yellow Elephant is still working out its kinks and inconsistencies, but this show was one where things came together well. The set started with electro-metallic drums and minimal keyboard atmospherics weaving into a sonic tapestry of plaintive vocals, gen

  December 1, 2008

• Q&A with Ryan Hendrix of Colourmusic

  My first interview with Ryan Hendrix, one of the co-founders of Oklahoma's Colourmusic, didn't happen for one reason or another. But he more than made up for it the second time around. He was incredibly generous with his time, and extremely interesting and honest, too. These qualities come through in our profile of the group, timed to advance its December 17 headlining appearance at the hi-dive, as well as the massive Q&A accessible below.

  December 10, 2008

• Takako Minekawa

  February 17, 2000

• A Shoreline Dream becoming a reality

  Everything is still coming up roses these days for A Shoreline Dream. After roaring out of the gate in 2006, wisely aligning itself with Paste and Filter Magazines and Urban Outfitters, to then earning a nod in Urb's Next 100 issue last spring and collaborating with Ulrich Schnauss, the act has made all the right moves. Considering that frontman Ryan Policky literally mortgaged his future on the band, it's not surprising to see that he's ensured that everything about the band, from the packagi

  January 9, 2009

• Best Band That Sounds Like a Vacuum Cleaner

  March 27, 2003

• Best Live Band

  March 25, 2004

• My Bloody Valentine show announced

  It was a hell of a big deal when My Bloody Valentine reunited last year after a sixteen-year hiatus for gigs in London, Europe, Japan and America, including the Coachella festival in Indio, California, and the All Tommorow's Parties festival in New York. In addition to playing Coachella again, the shoegaze pioneers will play four other American dates that include a stop at the Fillmore on Friday, April 24. Tickets are $39.50 and go on sale Saturday, March 14 at 10 a.m.

  March 12, 2009

• Heavy Rotation, our top five spins for the week of April 13, 2009

  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.

  April 14, 2009

• The (literally) deafening buzz of A Place to Bury Strangers

  October 2, 2008

• Swervedriver

  Friday, May 23, Marquis Theater, 1-866-468-7621.

  May 22, 2008

• Mini Reviews

  May 15, 2008

• Fell to appear on upcoming soundtrack

  The shoegaze narcopop of Fell will be appearing on the soundtrack for The Deepest Blue, an upcoming movie from first-time writer/director Dustin Lane, slated to release in 2010. Fell member Bryan Romero reports that Lane found the band on MySpace, looking for some appropriately "sad music for a sad movie" -- which, given Fell's languid melancholia, sounds like a perfect fit. How many songs and which ones is yet to be determined, but Romero says the director is considering a number of tracks fro

  June 3, 2009

• My Bloody Valentine's Kevin Shields talks Loveless and the influence of bands like Sonic Youth and Dinosaur Jr.

  April 23, 2009

• Silver Cord

  Crossroads Theater

  October 25, 2007

• Silversun Pickups

  Tuesday, March 6, Fillmore Auditorium, 303-830-8497.

  March 1, 2007

• Dirty on Purpose

  Wednesday, November 29, Larimer Lounge, 303-291-1007.

  November 23, 2006

• Asobi Seksu

  Thursday, October 12, hi-dive, 720-570-4500.

  October 12, 2006

• Primal Scream and Kasabian

  Riot City Blues (Columbia) and Empire (RCA)

  September 7, 2006

• Some Velvet Morning

  Brightblack Morning Light gets acclimated to city living.

  July 13, 2006

• Darkness Prevails

  I Love You but I've Chosen Darkness sheds light on its latest disc.

  May 25, 2006

• Listen Up

  Fast reviews of recent releases

  April 27, 2006

• I Love You but I've Chosen Darkness

  Fear Is on Our Side (Secretly Canadian)

  March 9, 2006

• Rocking Class Heroes

  Swearing at Motorists holds steady on the fringe.

  February 23, 2006

• Star Power

  Canada has a wealth of emerging Stars these days.

  February 9, 2006

• Listen Up

  Fast reviews of recent releases

  December 8, 2005

• Mazarin

  We're Already There (I And Ear Records)

  August 4, 2005

• Taking Flight

  With a stellar debut disc, Nightingale is ready to soar.

  April 21, 2005

• Caribou

  The Milk of Human Kindness (Domino)

  April 14, 2005

• Boogie Men

  VHS or Beta inspires communal dance ecstasy and has a good beat. But don't call it disco.

  October 17, 2002

• Critic's Choice

  Seana Carmody

  October 3, 2002

• Lush Life

  May 9, 1996

• TERMINAL VELOCITY

  December 14, 1994

• Moving Pictures: Casselman's Bar & Venue, MBV, Autumn Film, Primasonic, Maris the Great, Adai, To Be Eaten and Dualistics

  'Twas yet another sensational weekend for music in the MHC. Kicked the weekend off by having a few drinks at Casselman's Bar & Venue on Walnut, the latest addition to the Ballpark neighborhood -- or as owner Matt Casselman prefers, "NoDo." The place has tons of potential thanks to an attached thousand-person capacity concert hall. From there, we packed our earplugs and headed to My Bloody Valentine at the Fillmore, which, unsurprisingly, was a veritable who's who of the scene. We caught up w

  April 27, 2009

• Over the Weekend: Hey! Nice Snuggie!

  So it turns out April showers bring... people getting hammered in sleeved blankets. See photos from the Snuggie Pub Crawl, My Bloody Valentine at the Fillmore and DJ Chuck Love at Beta at westword.com/slideshow. And watch video from the weekend in local music on the Backbeat blog.

  April 27, 2009

• The Westword.com blog shortcut, April 30 edition

  Danielle Ate the Sandwich, and all I got was this lousy T-shirt... May flowers on the way. Today in Backbeat Online: • Danielle Ate the Sandwich (and became an internet phenomenon). • My Bloody Valentine at the Fillmore. • Dialed in: This week's local music radio playlists. • Mile Hi-Fidelity playlist -- 04.29.09. • Sound Bites: Quiet Company, Death Cab for Cutie, Peter Doherty, the Fratellis, the Life and Times and the View. • If this photo of Tupac is A) authentic and B) current,

  April 30, 2009

• Mogwai

  Tuesday, May 12, Bluebird Theater, 303-322-2308.

  May 7, 2009

• Q&A with Barney Greenway from Napalm Death

  Photo: Brooke BullardIn this week's Rough Mixes entry focusing on Napalm Death, we only printed highlights of Tom Murphy's recent conversation with Barney Greenway. The two of them actually had a fairly extensive conversation in which Greenway discussed the influence of My Bloody Valentine and other unexpected acts on Napalm Death, how the act has managed to maintain the ferocious level of intensity over the years that the outfit has become known for and more. Before heading to the show tonight

  May 8, 2009

• Monolith Q&A: Depreciation Guild

  Photo by Drew Reynolds​Brooklyn's the Depreciation Guild has spent the last few years fusing elements of synth pop, dream pop and experimental electronic music into an indistinguishable amalgamation of the band's wide-ranging sonic influences. In reviews and profiles of the band, much has been made of the group's use of an old piece of digital sound equipment (discussed below) but the Guild are not 8-bit composers nor are they neo-shoegazers trying to recreate a sound of times past. Instea

  September 11, 2009

• Kissing Party

  September 17, 2009

• Autolux

  September 17, 2009

• Hope Sandoval

  October 1, 2009

• Introducing the complex, beautiful Brim Liski

  Photo by Leah Maupin​Update 11/11/09: The full Brim Liski EP was released yesterday on Latenight Weeknight Records and is now available for download on iTunes for $5.99. We've just learned of a promising new group based here in Denver (with a connection to the Netherlands too, apparently). It's something of a local eclectic supergroup, comprising two members of other well-known and excellent acts that work in diverse styles. Mysterious, too -- they aren't revealing their identities to th

  November 11, 2009

• Top ten reunions we'd rather not see

  Better Than Ezra ​There have been a lot of bands in the history of the universe and most of them, at one point or another, have broken up. Surprisingly, we've found the majority of them have reformed despite themselves. Another surprise is the amount of bands still playing -- Better Than Ezra, Seven Mary Three, the Troggs, and the Zombies -- despite their lack of a mass audience. Last week, we waxed on our dream reunions. This week, we offer up ten bands we think should just stay dead, for one

  October 13, 2009

• Heavy Rotation, our top spins for the week of October 26, 2009

  ​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 picks of your own after the jump.

  October 28, 2009