A Shoreline Dream, Moonspeed, SonnenblumeThursday, February 26, 2009Bluebird TheaterBetter Than: Taking OxyContin and staring at clouds.Maybe it’s the pretty sunsets, or maybe it’s the lack of oxygen, but Denver has the makings of a surprisingly good bliss-rock scene. Last night’s all-local lineup at the Bluebird brought the pink noise in…
On its debut album, Terrific Seasons, These Are Powers — vocalist/guitarist Anna Barie, bassist (and former member of Liars) Pat Noecker and drummer Bill Salas — craft a thick, fetid stew of no-wave post punk and drone that the group dubbed “ghost punk.” Silly descriptor, perhaps, but Barie’s otherworldly howls…
A Shoreline Dream frontman Ryan Policky lives in a modest two-story house near Barnum Park in west Denver. The do-it-yourself ethos gets plenty of lip service these days, but Policky and his bandmates — guitarist Erik Jeffries, bassist Enoc Torraca and drummer Sean Merrell — live it fully, and the…
Remember the term “hyperprog”? Whatever it meant in times past, it describes guitarist Marnie Stern’s music perfectly. On her new album, This Is It and I Am It and You Are It and So Is That and He Is It and She Is It and It Is It and That…
Total Sonic Annihilation. Death by Audio. Loudest Band in New York. For better or worse, these phrases have attached themselves to Brooklyn’s A Place to Bury Strangers. The words seem almost comically boastful: Although they’re meant to be somewhat tongue-in-cheek, there is something funny about a band whose recordings break…
“Everyone shits. Honestly. And everyone has fucked up things they hide. I show mine with a sense of humor.” So wrote Bradford Cox in a blog post last year, and his words —particularly that last sentence — hold the key to Deerhunter, the Atlanta noise-rock quintet that he fronts. But…
Despite all the chatter about Antony and Tim Goldsworthy — and make no mistake, they’re both crucial to the success of this album — Hercules and Love Affair is very much the brainchild of Andrew Butler. The New York-by-way-of-Denver DJ shares his DFA cohorts’ ability to channel the entire history…
