Wesley Schultz has never been to the Bluebird Theater. Not for a show, anyway. And he’s never been to Red Rocks, either. Since moving to Denver from New York, he’s purposely avoided both. “I think it’s superstitious or something,” he explains. “If I really want to play somewhere, I probably…
Danielle de Picciotto relocated to Berlin in the late ’80s for a change of scenery and to get away from the violence of New York City, where the artist/musician had been living. In Berlin, de Picciotto quickly became immersed in the rich creative community of the city, and she co-founded…
“Cat Magick” starts this album off on a refreshing, nearly unclassifiable note: The vocals, raspy and difficult to decipher, are right out of crust and black metal, while the music has a kind of mathy but sinuous intensity, like something from At the Drive-In. Twisty guitar leads intertwine with urgent,…
Since 2005, Montreal’s Plants and Animals has been writing some of the most critically acclaimed music to have come out of that town in recent years. Its debut album, Parc Avenue, found the band exploring a vast array of sounds with a sense of playful abandon. It was a sprawling…
Since its earliest days as an appealing garage-surf two-piece, School Knights (due at the hi-dive on Friday, May 11) has doubled its membership. Founded by former Weed Diamond guitarist Michael Stein and drummer Zack Roif, the band added Ben Donehower on bass and Morris Kolontyrsky on guitar to help fill…
The Brian Jonestown Massacre (due tonight at the Bluebird Theater) has been through a lot of ups and downs since 1990. But singer and primary songwriter Anton Newcombe has steered the band through the release of more great albums per decade than most bands have across their entire career. For…
RUBEDO @ UNIT E | 5/4/12 See more photos in Rubedo at Unit E slide show In a show of sustained enthusiasm, Rubedo ended its set with one of its most visceral and dynamic numbers: “Give My Heart a Break.” The song began with feedback created by Kyle Gray as…
M83 @ OGDEN THEATRE | 4/30/12 See Also: Q&A with Maria Linden of I Break Horses The familiar strains of “Intro,” from 2011’s Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming, probably should have been our clue that the band was coming on. But instead, someone dressed up as the creature from the album…
Throughout Grown Alone, its latest effort, Amazing Twin articulates a true fusion of lo-fi pop, garage rock and Elephant 6-era psychedelia. “Gray to Have Eyed” sounds like a reverb-drenched pop song, but just over a minute before the end of the song, the band fuses all of the sounds together…
The Brian Jonestown Massacre is one of those bands that should be a household name, thanks to its incredibly catchy and powerful songs, its compelling backstory and a mythology that’s second to none in the modern era. Some would blame bandleader Anton Newcombe for sabotaging a promising career, but in…
“Chingaso” could mean a couple of things: a heavy blow that comes from life or from an enemy, or a dismissive insult related to being the embodiment of a big phallus. Whatever the case, the name fits this band, whose image is definitely full of attitude and whose sound fits…
I remember at Tiny Telephone we ordered Chinese and my fortune cookie said, ‘If you don’t do it excellently, then don’t do it at all,'” muses singer Kyle Gray about recording Rubedo’s debut full-length, Massa Confusa, in San Francisco. “And Ikey just started laughing hysterically.” The Ikey in question is…
COMMUNIKEY FESTIVAL @ BOULDER, CO | 4/26/12 -4/29/12 See Also: • Laurie Anderson at Boulder Theater, 4/25/12 • Q&A Cameron Stallones of Sun Araw • Q&A with Brian Williams of Lustmord • Q&A with Nick Zammuto • Q&A with Morton Subtonick For the lucky few who got to Communikey HQ…
I Break Horses (due tonight with M83 at the Ogden Theatre) started out as the bedroom project of Maria Lindén. Chances are, if she hadn’t been in contact with Simon Raymonde of Cocteau Twins and Bella Union fame (the label that also released a few albums by the Czars from…
See Also: • Lulacruza wraps up Communikey on April 29 at BMoCA • Q&A with Brian Williams of Lustmord • Q&A with Nick Zammuto • Q&A with Morton Subtonick • CMKY brings electronic arts and music to Boulder for a fourth year Sun Araw (due tonight at the Boulder Museum…
Real Estate (due tonight at the Gothic Theatre) was formed by some friends who grew up in Ridgewood, New Jersey. They were guys who graduated from college in the early ’90s just in time for a severe economic downturn, when it became obvious that the prospects as a new college…
LAURIE ANDERSON @ BOULDER THEATER | 4.25.12 See Also: • Q&A with Laurie Anderson • CMKY brings electronic arts and music to Boulder for a fourth year Laurie Anderson probably could have had a career in comedy if she wanted. Her subtle and playful humor last night definitely balanced the…
See Also: • Q&A with Nick Zammuto • Q&A with Morton Subtonick • CMKY brings electronic arts and music to Boulder for a fourth year Lustmord (due Saturday, April 28, at the ATLAS Institute during the Communikey Festival) is the long-running project of Brian Williams. In the late ’70s and…
See Also: • Q&A with Brian Williams of Lustmord • Q&A with Morton Subtonick • CMKY brings electronic arts and music to Boulder for a fourth year Zammuto (due Thursday, April 26, at Shine for the Communikey Festival) is the latest project from Nick Zammuto, who was one half of…
Since its inception, Carbon Choir has explored many styles of music — all very different from the teenage punk rock of Petrol Apathy, an outfit in which some of the members used to play. Frontman Joel Van Horne left that band in 1999 because he felt like he wanted more…
“Robot Haikus of Despair and Self Loathing” shows Lexigram — the act previously known as Yerkish — stretching out a bit, with more attention given to space within the song, especially in the middle, where Tim Kaminski’s voice spirals off into a tasteful sustain, more operatic than indulgent, before the…
Brian Williams started Lustmord in the early ’80s, when he became involved in the world of music that included avant-garde luminaries like Throbbing Gristle, Clock DVA, Coil and SPK, which he ultimately joined. In June 2006, Williams broke a 25-year streak of no live Lustmord shows when he was convinced…
