Alright, now this is a frightening proposition, just utterly frightening — and mind you, this is coming from a guy who files taxes each year with somebody who actually has Elvis’s visage tattooed on her person. I, perhaps more than most people, have a firm grasp on maniacal, inexplicable fanaticism,…
Live! with Regis and Kelly? Naw. We’re good. Not that anybody’s asking us, but if they were, we’d have to take a pass. That’s just us, though. What do we know? Hell, it was probably pretty cool to meet someone who was actually around when dinosaurs roamed the earth (just…
Oh and speaking of local hip-hop videos: We just got a sneak peek of the new 20:12/Spoke In Wordz video for “Por Aqui, Por Alla.” Premiering tonight at Casselman’s, the clip is directed by esteemed director Eric Heights, from a track from 20:12’s self-titled album, which carries a timely message…
Ever had your heart broken? I mean, just absolutely shattered, utterly smashed to pieces to the point where you can’t tell up from down and it’s all you can do to find the strength to pick yourself off the floor? In “I Can’t Stop Crying,” one of my all time…
Spilling Over Every Side: That’s the name of Pretty Lights’ latest release, and what a perfectly fitting title it is. Derek Vincent Smith simply just doesn’t stop. Smith, of course, is Pretty Lights’ mastermind. When we last checked in with Smith in March, he had just released his new EP,…
Growing up in rural Missouri, it’s doubtful that the prospect of being written up in the pages of prestigious publications like the New York Times ever crossed Nathaniel Rateliff’s mind. That said, you’ve gotta think that the thought of one day having his music reviewed in the pages of Mojo,…
Andy Thomas is bummed. Can’t say that we blame him. See that beautiful black resonator he’s playing here? She’s a beauty, yeah? Well, “was” a beauty is more accurate. Seems some unscrupulous jerk apparently swiped it this past weekend after his set with Tin Horn Prayer at the Irish Rover…
Nod your head to this: We’ve got another brand new track to lay on you on this week. This one, fresh out of the lab and still hot to the touch, is by Lil Ceej from his forthcoming mixtape, Street Fame Vol. 1: Told You So. The cut, which is…
Parts. That’s the name of the new Gamits record. This is the artwork for the new platter, which we just learned will be co-released by Suburban Home Records and Paper + Plastick, the imprint owned by Vinnie Fiorello of Less Than Jake, sometime in October. While we can’t say for…
From the possibility of the Nathan & Stephen reunion becoming more than just a one-off proposition to former Speakeasy Tiger frontwoman Kyle Simmons making her debut with her new band Boys, we heard several intriguing rumors and were made aware of quite a few new developments this past weekend. None…
It’s all Pinchers all the time around here. In case you can’t tell, we’re all sorts of giddy about this pair of reunion shows happening next weekend. Hell, we’ve only been waiting for these gigs to take place for, what, like, eighteen years or so? And we purposely (well, some…
A big hell yeah for Tjutjuna, who was written up last week on Altered Zones, Pitchfork’s sister site, made up of a consortium of forward-thinking bloggers devoted to highlighting “the most notable and adventurous new artists.” Although we have to admit that the writing is a little dense for our…
All right, so if for some reason, you’re crabby about the line-up for this year’s Mile High Music Festival — which, you know what, say what you will about DMB and Jack Johnson; love ’em or loathe ’em, you can’t deny there’s some serious gems on the undercard (um, hello,…
Naeem Oba should already be on your radar. But just in case he isn’t, feel free to get up to speed on the Minneapolis-bred MC by reading the Q&A we posted with him and brikAbrak this past December. Dude is deep. Real deep. Right now, he’s working on an album…
Have you seen this yet? It recently started making its way around the internet. If not, it’s totally worth six minutes of your time. This is one of three videos that Vitamins and Danny Shyman of Josephine and the Mousepeople scored. Presumably taking a cue from Yo La Tengo, who…
Sadly, we missed Dan Craig Band’s set at the South Broadway Christian church this past weekend, and from the looks of this clip posted by The Ruckus, we missed a great deal. See more videos of Craig from this past weekend filmed and submitted by Tiffany, the site’s Denver correspondent,…
More fresh footage for ya’ to make your Monday massive. Our boy Ralphie captured these moving pictures last night at the UMS: Here’s Whygeezy rocking the mike with Jonny 5 of Flobots, backed by Big Wheel Electrosoul at Moe’s Original BBQ, the new joint on Broadway and Sixth. Enjoy…
Wind up the hype machine and cue hyperventilation: Unless you just flew in from a remote village on the outskirts of Machu Pichu, you’re well aware that the Warlock Pinchers — a few members of which played a teaser set this past weekend at the UMS as Murder Pinchers –…
Dig it: Here’s some fresh baked goodness straight out of the Mile High City. This one here’s from another talented young lad named Pries. Spoiler alert: If the title, “Sex Ed,” and the suggestive, heavy petting visuals after the jump aren’t enough to clue you in, this cut, which features…
A couple quick notes about today’s UMS lineup — but first a post-script to the travelogues we’ve already posted from Jef Otte and Tom Murphy: Heard bits of Papa Bear from the sidewalk outside the Rover, and it was quite lovely. Very eager to hear more. Caught part of the…
In case you missed it, 3OH!3 was on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno last night performing “My First Kiss,” the first single from their new album Streets of Gold. Compared to their shiny vest, bulging-chest-hair and mustache flaunting turn on Jimmy Kimmel last month, this performance is slightly more…
So this is pretty cool, particularly for those of us who couldn’t attend. Our sister paper in Minneapolis, City Pages, just shared this with us. Seems they teamed up with MPLS.TV and sent a film crew to this past weekend’s Pitchfork Music Festival, and they came back with some pretty…
