This week’s Beatdown deals with the whole idea of talking during shows, as it seems like a fairly frequent occurrence regardless of who’s performing. I offered up a few viable theories as to why it happens and asserted that, for the most part, I sincerely don’t believe that anyone truly…
This week’s Beatdown deals with the whole idea of talking during shows, as it seems like a fairly frequent occurrence regardless of who’s performing. I offered up a few viable theories as to why it happens and asserted that, for the most part, I sincerely don’t believe that anyone truly…
This week’s Beatdown deals with the whole idea of talking during shows, as it seems like a fairly frequent occurrence regardless of who’s performing. I offered up a few viable theories as to why it happens and asserted that, for the most part, I sincerely don’t believe that anyone truly…
This week’s Beatdown deals with the whole idea of talking during shows, as it seems like a fairly frequent occurrence regardless of who’s performing. I offered up a few viable theories as to why it happens and asserted that, for the most part, I sincerely don’t believe that anyone truly…
Looks like the third time’s a charm for Dualistics. “I think there’s a lot of excitement, especially with us, for this disc,” enthuses bassist Jimmy Stofer of the band’s new album, its third. “Even just the way it looks, the tangible product, and the way it sounds. I think we’re…
A couple years back, I stopped by Club Boca on one of its weekly goth nights, which always looked like a high-school makeout party — only darker. Soon after I walked in, I spotted this dude wearing a ponytail and a wife beater entangled in the arms of a goth…
Lately, I’ve been thinking about all the talking that takes place during shows. I first broached the subject a few years back after seeing Ian Cooke at the hi-dive; in that column, I wondered why folks would take considerable effort to see local bands they clearly care about (I mean,…
Sometimes songwriters take well until adulthood to reach a level of creative maturity warranting attention by anyone beyond their peer group. Cody Crump got a jump start, through extensive experience in his youth, being an old soul, or both. Whatever the source of his preternatural wisdom, he reaches surprising depths…
Not many people know this about me, because, well, I don’t like to talk about it much: I used to be a Mouseketeer. But I was chewed up and spat out of the Disney machine faster than an ill-conceived Parisian theme park. I started out on Kids Incorporated, belting out…
Get ready to get twisted. One of the most innovative, intense and flat-out insane artists in the world is coming to Aquarius on January 31. I’m talking about the incomparable Otto von Schirach. He’s loud, he’s crude, and he’s the very essence of awesome. His discography includes such tasteless titles…
Three years ago, Big Timber got its start playing punk. The band then tried its hand at alt-country before settling on its current sound — indie rock infused with a ’60s garage flair. On its latest EP, Midnight on the Mainland, the group plays to both sides of its personality…
There isn’t a song on Dew on the Needles that doesn’t incorporate an unexpected twist or pleasant surprise. Songs will start out one way, set a nice groove, then take a hard left into weird territory; fairly straightforward tunes will suddenly give way to an extended sample of a woman…
Gription is basically a boogie band of the sort that’s provided a soundtrack for generations of suds-guzzlers. But it sounds like a damn good one on Last in Line thanks largely to Bill Stevenson and Jason Livermore of Fort Collins’s Blasting Room Studios. The pair, who recorded the last two…
The Dreaming Machines’ debut is a compilation of live tunes that displays the vast scope of Kurt Bauer and Arnie Swenson. It starts off with a few somewhat tame guitar/banjo duos, but as the album progresses, the two dig into various worldly excursions using instruments like the Vietnamese dan tinh,…
Although this record was put to tape around a decade ago, the resurgence of psychedelically tinged indie pop has made the Christines’ music both ahead of its time and eminently contemporary. Uniting elements of space rock, indie pop, psychedelic garage rock and power pop, the band has progressed beyond its…
Who knows what the hell’s going on with Scott Weiland these days? After Stone Temple Pilots collapsed largely because of his parade of personal issues (arrests, rehab stints et. al.), he landed the frontman spot in Velvet Revolver, the rare supergroup that actually made a commercial mark — at least…
If the idea of a great rock band from Siberia sounds like the setup for a particularly lame joke, you clearly haven’t heard Mumiy Troll yet. Formed in Vladivostok in 1983, the quartet was condemned back in the U.S.S.R. as “one of the most socially dangerous bands in the world.”…
Musically, State Radio, which is paired with Rebelution at both of these gigs, doesn’t always sound especially aggressive. “Rash of Robberies,” “CIA” and other tracks from the Massachusetts band’s latest album, 2008’s Year of the Crow, kinda/sorta rock when they’re not inviting noodle dancing with modified reggae riffs, but they…
There is much more to Salt Lake City punk than some silly movie set in the ’80s. The real thing is very much alive and well in hard-edged experimental bands such as Form of Rocket and the decidedly more poppy but just as energetic and fiery Fail to Follow. These…
Todd Snider’s Americana is a far cry from punk rock, yet the singer-songwriter embodies a punk attitude, especially on his latest release, Peace Queer. Channeling Dylan with the balls of, say, Jello Biafra, Snider rails with his trademark dry wit against the war and George W. Bush. The eight-song, half-hour-long…
Photo: Summit Sudios Found yet another batch of videos of a band hard at work in the studio. These feature Rough Draft, an up-and-coming, unabashed Christian rock act from Fort Collins that spends the bulk of its time on the road. Coming off winning the band competition at the Gospel…
Photo: Gary IsaacsBefore heading off across the pond for a sizable nineteen-day jaunt through Europe in April, Slim Cessna’s Auto Club will be crisscrossing Colorado in the company of the Reverend Horton Heat. Kicking things off at the Ogden Theatre this Friday night alongside Reno Divorce, the band will accompany…
