Charles Spearin The Happiness Project Arts & Crafts From Charles Spearin, member of Broken Social Scene and one of the founders of post-rockers Do Make Say Think, comes one of the most exciting and interesting records in recent memory. For The Happiness Project, Spearin interviewed a number of his Toronto neighbors,…
Roger Joseph Manning, Jr.Catnip Dynamite The Oglio Entertainment GroupRoger Joseph Manning Jr. has it tough. As a member of legendary defunct pop band Jellyfish, he ascended to a place of royalty among retro rock and power pop aficionados. The San Francisco-based band’s two albums were full of the type of…
In terms of music news this was a slower week in the Mile High City. The biggest items were news of Overcasters being invited to perform at South By Southwest on the heels of a particularly harrowing trip to the East Coast a few weeks ago with the Fluid, followed…
Did you ever feel like the universe is reaching directly into your brain for inspiration on what crazy shit it should do next? That’s how I feel watching this clip, which takes like five of my favorite things in the world — Krautrock inspired electronic grooves, zombies, G.I. Joe, John…
There’s a great dialogue happening right now on the Denver Music Board about the local bands that mattered the most to everyone individually. While there’s a ton of groups on that list that had a big impact on me, there’s one in particular that I remember fondly as being my…
All week we’ve been talking about talking at shows and all this talking has compelled me to weigh in with my own two cents. Like many of our other commentators, I need to admit a bit of guilt first — I have been known to say a few words whilst…
Thanks to the power of online networking, I recently reconnected with someone I worked with in the corporate world, way back in the mid ’90s. In those days, I was drawn to Jahnavi Stenflo because she had an iconoclastic personal style that allowed her to wear her artist’s soul on…
Photo: Maria Romero My favorite song at the moment, hip-hop or otherwise, is “Reach for the Stars,” by 3 the Hardway. Everything about the track, from the hook — which is built around a sample of “I Just Wanna Be the One in Your Life,” a cover by the Manhattans…
Huzzah! It’s about freaking time that DJ Vajra got his due. To the left of you is a Serato Scratch ad from this month’s BPM magazine, page 38, to be specific. Look closely to the bottom row (second from left), and right there is DJ Vajra’s (aka Chris Karns) mug…
Turn on your radio-listening device tonight at 7:30 to 106.7 KBPI to catch Workhorse, Denver’s southern-rock-fried answer to Mastodon, on Uncle Nasty’s show. They’ll be interviewing Ross and Randy from the band as well as playing the song “Wooly Molasses.” If you like what you hear (and you probably will;…
Another two hours of playing the best hand-picked local music is in the books. Andy and I got all sorts of chatty last night — I mean, more than usual; seriously we were like a gaggle of grandmas chopping it up in a sewing circle — which meant that we…
Photo: Don Cudney Still don’t know if Mama will ever perform live, but we’ve finally gotten a release date for its recorded debut. Bayoutopia, the album containing the songs that we’ve been raving about endlessly since last November when we first heard the demos, is slated for release on Tuesday,…
Considering the frequent hosannas tossed in the direction of old-school, hand-drawn fliers, it should come as no surprise that the flier this week that flipped our wigs was one that we stumbled across from Minor Authority touting a gig at the Gothic this past August. The primitive lettering and pencil…
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…
