13th Planet Records, founded by Ministry’s Al Jourgensen, has released a free EP for digital download via Vampirefreaks.com. The EP includes five unreleased tracks and remixes by Ministry, Revolting Cocks, Prong, False Icons and Stayte, plus a video from Ascension of the Watchers (founded by Fear Factory frontman Burton C. Bell)…
Many thanks, for your patience and indulgence as I continue to wrestle with family health drama. Almost two weeks ago, I started to tell you about my experience at LIFEspot, and then left you hanging on the cliff. It’s high time we picked up where we left off — which…
At the end of this month, Tim Pourbaix will leave his home town behind for New York — specifically, the hipster’s promised land of Williamsburg. Before he says goodbye, however, the Denver-based singer-songwriter — who garnered attention as a bassist with Kael Smith’s Bear vs. Larger Bear and Killfix —…
In this week’s issue, we’re running a short profile on Tim Pourbaix in Rough Mixes, based on a lengthy interview Eryc Eyl conducted with Pourbaix. The singer-songwriter had much more to say than could fit into that smaller piece. Subsequently, we’ve opted to allow Pourbaix to tell his story –…
Savoir Adore Machines EP Cantora RecordsThis follow-up to the New York-based quintet’s 2008 debut, The Adventures of Mr. Pumpernickel and the Girl with Animals in Her Throat, is the latest in a long line of artists releasing free download EPs to hype upcoming full-lengths. However, this three-song, 10-minute collection shouldn’t get…
A LullIce Cream BonesLujo RecordsChicago scene veterans Nigel Evan Dennis, Mike Brown and Todd Miller have pulled together their collective indie rock experience to produce a lush, intricate, headphone-ready indie pop record that surprises, delights and frustrates – all in just over 11 minutes. Realized with countless percussion instruments, horns,…
Look, I hear you. I can’t imagine running or walking six miles, except, perhaps, to find some great bands and cold beverages. Still, every Memorial Day, thousands of people descend on Boulder to run the BolderBOULDER. This is the famous 10k race’s 31st year, and, if you’re like me, it’ll…
Earlier this year, I made a commitment to broaden my horizons. I said I’d catch music in different genres and at different venues than I normally frequent. I didn’t set any specific measurable goals to correspond with this resolution, but I think I’ve been fairly successful. For example, last month,…
Jeffrey Wentworth Stevens and Joseph Kersey Sampson return with a second EP of eccentric, atmospheric cowboy pop in which Sampson’s plaintive vocals and obliquely melancholic lyrics nestle languidly into Stevens’s delicately wrought illusions. With only a couple exceeding three minutes, many songs fleet by, like half-remembered dreams. “Adore,” for instance,…
When we made out yesterday, I told you about how to get Wentworth Kersey’s new CD for the price of a cup of coffee. In response to that, I received several incisive and insistent questions, such as: “Huh?” “Wha?” “Why?” and “Is that your hand on my thigh?” So I…
Forgive me, for I have sinned. It’s been nearly two weeks since our last makeout. I’m sure you’ve probably moved on by now, found others to make out with and forgotten me completely, and I don’t blame you. All I can say in my defense is something you undoubtedly already…
3OH!3’s single, “Don’t Trust Me,” is currently the number one four downloaded song on iTunes. If you haven’t yet heard the Colorado-grown duo’s big-time debut, Want, you can now download the whole record without putting a penny in Steve Jobs’s pocket. Lala.com is offering the album for a mere $3.99…
Last week, I downloaded the latest free EP from the Autumn Film, a local act that makes a habit of giving its tracks away online. I must admit that, before I got my hands on this collection, a three-track-and-a-video collection called Heart-Shaped Box, I was far from being a fan…
If you’re like me, when you go out to see live local music, you’re not really thinking about the ecological impact of the experience. You drink a few beers out of plastic cups. You set those beers on a paperboard coaster. You spill beer down your shirt, then wipe it…
Making good on its promise to deliver unique multimedia bundles for download, Max3 is currently offering the latest EP from the Photo Atlas, To Silently Provoke the Ghost, for the recession-friendly price of $3.98. But that’s only part of the story. In addition to the record’s five fresh tracks, you’ll…
I had a very exciting conversation last week with Doug Bohm, co-founder of Bands for Lands. The Denver-based nonprofit, which has used live music and other arts to further the cause of conservation and sustainability for over a decade, is about to embark on a new initiative to increase awareness…
Dish Ma Raison de Vivre Ton AmourROA Records Filtering ’60s pop and garage rock through filial rivalry and junkyard percussion, Roberto and Nathaniel Aguilar make heartfelt, heartsick indie rock that is clever without being cloying, dynamic without being deafening and poppy without being pablum. The wide-eyed optimism and ingenuity of the…
Josh Reichmann Oracle BandCrazy PowerPaper Bag RecordsAfter a perfectly respectable run as frontman of Toronto artsy punk outfit Tangiers, Josh Reichmann set off on his own last year, surprising fans of his earlier work by reinventing himself as a left-field soul man on the Life is Legal EP. With this…
Peaches I Feel CreamXL Recordings If, like me, you haven’t tuned in to what electroclash pioneer Peaches has been up to since 2000’s brash and bracing The Teaches of Peaches, her self-produced fourth album will take you by pleasant surprise. Collaborating with wizards like Soulwax and Simian Mobile Disco, the performer…
Once again, the Boulder bubble will host the socially and musically progressive Communikey Festival of Electronic Arts. Now in its second year, the three-day event includes electronic musicians from the UK, Germany, Canada, Mexico, the US and Belgrade, as well as local freaks, like Denver’s Cacheflowe and Boulder’s Normal Ones…
The Photo Atlas and the Still City will be playing this Thursday night at the Marquis Theater. In itself, that might not seem so noteworthy. Sure, the Photo Atlas has been receiving some great national press lately, and the Still City is one of the best bands I haven’t seen…
On Friday night, I caught an entertaining, thought-provoking and extraordinarily heady bit of theater out at Miners Alley Playhouse in Golden. The play, directed by award-winning Denver actor and skilled chef John Arp, is called The Visitor. Written in 1993 by French playwright Eric Emmanuel-Schmitt, the piece finds God on…
