Modern English is best known for its hit single “I Melt With You,” from the 1982 album After the Snow. The song was in heavy rotation in the early days of MTV and served as an anthem for those struggling to find joy and hope in the dismal age of Thatcher and Reagan.
A group of near-strangers formed the punk band Rotten Reputation in January 2016 after a mutual friend had posted on social media about the lack of women in bands in Denver’s music scene.
Denver based rock trio Down Time is releasing its debut EP, Good Luck!, on GROUPHUG. The five-song offering has its origins in songs singer/guitarist Alyssa Maunders was writing while she was living in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
The Colorado band BANDITS, which will be releasing its latest 7-inch record at Lost Lake on July 1, is teasing the show with a new music video for the song “Enough.”
When Teri Gender Bender – the charismatic front-person and guitarist for the Mexican band with a semi-French name, Le Butcherettes – was born in Denver in 1989, the city still had a small-town vibe.
To record the six songs that comprise Sliver’s new EP, singer Chris Mercer overcame a lifetime of obstacles.
The new Com Truise album Iteration, due out June 16, marks the conclusion of a loosely science-fiction themed trilogy that began with the project’s 2011 debut Galactic Melt. Without lyrics, the themes may not be as obvious, but song titles like “Ether Drift,” “Dreambender” and “Ephemeron” conjure visions of a retro-futurist aesthetic embodied by films like Blade Runner and the more recent Beyond the Black Rainbow.
Simon Green, the brains behind Bonobo, grew up in Brighton, England, playing piano. He picked up guitar in his teens, but soon ditched it for electronic music, preferring the portability of electronics and how they allowed him to create on his own schedule without having to rely on a full band.
Acid Mothers Temple has performed in various incarnations since it formed in 1995 and is touring now as Acid Mothers Temple & the Melting Paraiso UFO. At its core, AMT is a psychedelic rock band informed by noise, the avant-garde, prog rock and jazz. Its shows are mind-altering experiences embodying what the best psychedelic rock does.
Teacup Gorilla may not be prolific, but it’s never afraid to take risks.
Los Angeles-based soul and psychedelia band Chicano Batman is touring in support of its 2017 album Freedom Is Free.
As a kid, Bison Bone’s Courtney Whitehead would leave the radio on all night long and wake up in the middle of the night listening to the more adventurous end of country music programming.
Noisy, experimental rock band Creepoid and its brethren in psychedelic sounds Ecstatic Vision are touring the U.S. this spring, and Thursday, March 23, will stop at Denver’s hi-dive.
Wesley Watkins knows how to bring people together. “That’s my superpower as a human being,” says Watkins, a force in Denver’s music scene who is currently playing trumpet for Wheelchair Sports Camp’s Wall to Wall tour. Before picking up the spring touring gig, Watkins started organizing WMN and the Queen City of the Plains, a showcase of Denver women musicians happening this weekend, March 17 and 18 at Syntax Physic Opera.
Indie/math rock band Montoneros’s members named the band after a leftist political group.
Jesse Manley and his six-piece band will release their latest album, Dust, at Syntax Physic Opera, Friday, March 10. The recording represents the fourth time Manley has written music for the ballet company Wonderbound. This is quite the unusual partnership for a guy whose musical roots lie within the folk…
Curved Light is an electronic music project that emerged in 2015 when Peter Tran moved with his partner, visual artist Deirdre Smith, to Austin. It is the product of his life in music and his work with the experimental rock bands Les Rhinocéros and Hume and her work in video…
Samiam came out of the same Berkeley, California punk scene that was fostered by the legendary DIY venue 924 Gilman Street. Coming along slightly after acts like Green Day and Operation Ivy, Samiam never gained as much commercial popularity as its predecessors. But the group tasted success. In the mid-90s,…
The political post-hardcore act Milemarker, which began in 1997 in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, defied Maximumrocknroll’s rule that bands with keyboards were not punk. The musicians decided the band was “going to be even more punk and get keyboards and make some music that you couldn’t say wasn’t punk and see…
Lo Moon took a different route than other bands coming up in the age of the Internet. Rather than share musical ideas and songs immediately through social media or a digital platform like Bandcamp, the Los Angeles group worked on its music for four and a half years before releasing its debut single, “Loveless” in 2016.
The Pretty Reckless could have been a vanity band led by a previously famous member. When guitarist Ben Phillips met future lead singer Taylor Momsen in 2008, she was a fourteen-year-old up-and-coming actress known for roles in the 2000 version of How the Grinch Stole Christmas and the television show…
At eighty years old, Harry Tuft is finally getting the time and opportunity to do what he came to Colorado to do in the first place in 1960: play music. Not that Tuft hasn’t played music all along and put out albums, but it is the first time he’s been free to do so without the weight of running a store, leading the local chapter of the musicians’ union, or, in years past, booking acts like Joan Baez and arranging for her to meet the Beatles when the Fab Four played Red Rocks in 1964. He basically served as the de facto godfather of Denver folk through his establishment of the Denver Folklore Center in 1962, and he was instrumental in founding Swallow Hill. If Tuft hadn’t left Philadelphia to move here, inspired by stories of the opportunities to play live out west, Denver music and culture would be immeasurably diminished.
