With a dreamy, uplifting sound reminiscent of bands like Lush, Curve and Stereolab, School of Seven Bells creates deeply atmospheric music that explores the inner reaches of the human psyche with a surprisingly colorful yet concrete flair. Sisters Alejandra and Claudia Deheza came from the experimental band On!Air!Library!, while guitarist…
Performing for the last several years under the moniker Otem Rellik, Toby Hendricks has certainly paid his dues. Living in Fort Collins, he’s developed his craft largely through experimenting at open mikes and performing at shows with indie rock bands. Although his own vocal delivery is heavily influenced by Sole…
Producer/rapper Mr. Dean (aka Dean Lopez) has spent the last ten years making music and honing his craft. He says that his faith and the support of others — including area churches and their flock — have served to keep him encouraged and focused on his path, which is to…
Titus Andronicus is frightfully serious about punk rock. The group of well-read, New Jersey-bred twenty-somethings recently released The Monitor, a concept album about the Civil War that contains spoken-word, era-appropriate interludes, male-female call-and-response, and three track punk suites that can individually go on for as long as fourteen minutes. And…
One of the most anticipated albums in local hip-hop circles this fall is Dispensary Music, the long-awaited full-length collaboration between Whygee and Foe, slated to drop tomorrow on iTunes.The collaboration between these two rappers was inspired by sporadic features on various songs in the past and the undeniable chemistry they…
GirlGrabbers is the cross-pollination of music personalities, Qknox (aka Jerod Sarlo) and DJ GypdaHip (aka Anwar Woody). Together the two are determined to highlight the essence of beat making in its purist form. The duo’s first two beat tapes, GirlGrabbers and Good Time With a Bad Girl, served as a…
Kristín Anna Valtýsdóttir was part of the popular Icelandic dream pop group múm, which she fronted with her twin sister Gyða. Before leaving the band in 2006, Valtýsdóttir, also known by her stage name Kría Brekkan, performed on the 2005 Animal Collective album Feels. A talented multi-instrumentalist, Brekkan performed mostly…
Casiotone for the Painfully Alone started out in 1997 as a solo project for songwriter Owen Ashworth. Initially using just a keyboard and a basic drum machine, Ashworth challenged himself to make the most of minimal elements. The result has been a body of work that not only speaks directly…
Pavement is among the most influential rock bands of the ’90s, despite not quite becoming a household name, and you can hear the band’s influence in virtually all underground rock since then, from the slightly off-center rhythms, the jagged but melodic guitar riffs and the fascinatingly obtuse lyrics. Taking some…
DJ Low Key is certainly no stranger to the local hip-hop scene. And for the past few years, he’s been making a name for himself nationally putting in work with such heavy-hitters as TiRon, Tanya Morgan and, most recently, Che Grand, whose Fixtape #2 project, mixed exclusively by Low Key,…
Merton is a Colorado resident who has gained a good amount of Internet celebrity for the spontaneous songs he plays for random people he meets on chatroulette.com. But he’s not just an online phenomenon. In fact, he frequently takes his show on the road, literally, by playing to passersby on…
As much fun as he has touring with 3OH!3 and being a member of that act’s live band, and as fond as he is of playing in Young Coyotes with Zach Tipton, American Tomahawk is Adam Halferty’s baby, the place where he’s able to express himself the most freely as…
The Gamits were one of the classic, melodic punk bands of the late ’90s. Unlike many of their peers, they survived well into the new decade before calling it quits, shortly after releasing the best album of their career, Antidote, in the summer of 2004. After touring extensively across the…
Safe Boating is No Accident is the musical/performance art project of Leighton Peterson and Neil McCormick, who both came to Colorado within the last several years. Forming Safe Boating about two years ago, Peterson and McCormick found a way to combine their love of old timey music with a modern…
Turner Jackson is still a youngster in the game. Just shy of 22 years old, he doesn’t consider himself a “rapper.” You’d be hard pressed to find him spouting capricious odes of gratitude to the heart of hip-hop — he’s still a novice when it comes to the foundations of…
Joe Thunder is not a DJ. Nor is he an MC. Just the same, he’s a widely recognizable figure in the local hip-hop scene, and he’s equally as well regarded as those who are making the music. A tireless champion of Colorado hip-hop, Joe has been doing everything he can…
Ace Miyamoto’s his given name, but he’s known by a few other handles: Acezi, Ronin or just plain Ace, as we know him. Part producer, part MC, part promoter, Ace is involved in many diverse projects that require him to utilize all of the skills listed on his resume. Whether…
Okay, gonna go out on a limb here and say that tix for these dates are probably going to sell out in a little more than the time it takes to read this item: We just learned that Phish — hot on the heels of a pair of well-received dates…
As Pollination Population, Katherine Ersing folds volumes of personal stories into melodies made from bells, acoustic guitar and her trademark cassette tape samples. Finding beauty in the easily ignored sounds of traffic noise and passing conversation, the Buffalo, New York transplant makes them all unintentional players in her music, forming…
Julox, a southern native who relocated to Aurora in 1991 is a busy man. With more than twenty projects already under his belt and eight more on the way, including a joint project with UGK records, this dedicated rapper is proving that he truly is trill. Although he draws inspiration…
Seven years and more than six-hundred live shows into its career, Whitewater Ramble has completed work on its long awaited studio debut, All Night Drive. It’s been quite a road getting to this point. The Fort Collins-based act could easily write a book chronicling its path from playing tiny and…
When the crack epidemic hit the streets in the ’80s, it changed the social constructs of a generation. Not only did it birth a legion of children with addicted parents, but from Jay-Z to Rick Ross, it also served as thematic fodder for some of rap’s biggest names. Like hip-hop,…
