Friday, April 30, 2010
Thirty Seconds to Mars and Mutemath
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Cedric Gervais
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Ate Bitten
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The Mile High Makeout: KVDU releases free compilation of exclusive local music
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Kaki King
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Thursday, April 29, 2010
Oblio Arrow (CD release)
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Lion Sized (EP release)
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Gil Mantera's Party Dream
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Lisa Bell
On her debut album, Dare to Be..., Boulder-based singer Lisa Bell put modern spins on jazz standards, and there was still a fair amount of jazz on her second album, It's All About Love. On her third and latest effort, Dancing on the Moon, Bell holds on to her jazz beginnings ...
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3014 learns the cold, hard fax of surviving on Colfax
After a two year-stint as Senger's on the Fax, the bar at 3014 East Colfax Avenue closed quietly last July, then reopened the next month as 3014, under the ownership of Nick O'Sullivan, one of the brothers responsible for Brothers BBQ, with former owner David Senger back running the joint....
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Common Loon
Champaign, Illinois, hardly seems like a catalyst for noteworthy bands, but Hum came from there and so does Common Loon, an act that occupies similarly atmospheric territory. A quick listen to any of the music from the band's new album, The Long Dream of Birds, reveals that these guys migh...
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Hannah Montana 3 - Full Length Concert
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Lion Sized's new album is all about coughing up your teeth
Ever been pelted in the face with anything before? Doesn't matter what it is — snow, water, spitballs — it smarts a little, doesn't it? So why would someone to allow himself to be blasted in the face with a paint cannon over and over and over and over again?
"I think it's sign...
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Matt Darey at the Church
Trance DJ, producer and radio host Matt Darey is probably best known for his 2007 hit "Beautiful Day," but he's been a force in the dance-music world for close to fifteen years: He was releasing tracks like "From Russia With Love" and remixing such trance classics as Binary Finary's "1998"...
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Bob Mould
As one-third of Hüsker Dü, Bob Mould would have been important solely for having been in one of the most influential bands of the 1980s — a band that arguably established "alternative" music as commercially viable in the world beyond the American underground. But after the group's...
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Fucked Up
Fucked Up seems to have a little crush on Denver. Besides playing a now-legendary show inside the cramped confines of Wax Trax Records last February, the Canadian punk outfit even chose a photograph submitted by Wax Trax co-owner Duane David to grace one of the alternative covers of the band's re...
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Get Three Coffins Ready
In one of the best scenes in the spaghetti Western A Fistful of Dollars, Clint Eastwood tells the old undertaker to "get three coffins ready," then blows away a few of the Baxter clan for laughing at his mule. While this band might have borrowed its name from that film, it actually ...
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Pat Metheny
As one who's embraced musical technology for over three decades, guitarist Pat Metheny has put a completely new spin on an old idea with his latest album, Orchestrion. With some help from inventors, Metheny took the player-piano concept to a whole other level by using devices like pianos, ...
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Oblio's Arrow has changed its name, but not its sound
First known as Oblio Duo and then Oblio Duo + the Archers, the newly christened Oblio's Arrow makes music as mercurial as its name. Over the past few years, the ever-shifting outfit — which revolves around singer-songwriters William Duncan and Steven Lee Lawson — has crafted a body of...
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Paean
There is no shortage of super-earnest bands with a dozen members and twice that many instruments in Colorado. Paean, probably the flagship band of Fort Collins label Act So Big Forest, is one of the better entrants in the category (real number of members: six). Live, the act is consuming and mesm...
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Wednesday, April 28, 2010
Meet the curators of the Denver Noise Fest
The idea of "noise" as a form of audio art can be traced to the early-twentieth-century avant-garde. In the larger realm of music, the aesthetic of noise and its sound can be heard in the work of bands like Sonic Youth and newer acts like HEALTH. In Denver, noise is outside the realm and experien...
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Jazz at the Root, at the Meadowlark
Jazz has long been music reserved for the best players and has produced some of popular music's most memorable eccentrics and rebels. While not a jazz show in the purest sense, Jazz at the Root (taking place this Thursday, April 29, at the Meadowlark with a wealth of talent on the bill) li...
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Dodsfalla
Forget trying to decide whether or not this music is just grind or a combination of crust and grind. What this record does from beginning to end is comment on the horrors of the modern world by embodying them in feral, distorted vocals and slashing yet pummeling guitar riffs. Where Dödsf&aum...
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MAD - THE CONCERT
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MAD - THE CONCERT
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Tuesday, April 27, 2010
Rich Mullins Concert Part #5
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Live review: Sublime with Rome @ the Fillmore Auditorium
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The Congress
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CD reviews: The Apples in Stereo, Carole King and James Taylor, Roky Erikson, Aqualung
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Leon Redbone
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Monday, April 26, 2010
Live review: The Flaming Lips, the Dead Weather @ Capitol Federal Park at Sandstone (in Kansas City)
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Creating, Stading In Motion, Rainmaker - Yanni Live! The Concert Event - Video 1
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Live review: Ani DiFranco, Buddy Wakefield @ the Ogden Theatre
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Live review: The Flaming Lips, the Dead Weather @ Capitol Federal Park at Sandstone (in Kansas City)
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[HD/FANCAM] SNSD || 1st Asia Tour (Shanghai) - Full concert pt. 6/16
Cameron McGill & What Army
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Peter Rogers (pianist) live in concert - What Wondrous Love Is This
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25.04.2010 Metallica live concert in Moscow. part 2
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[HD/Fancam] SNSD || 1st Asia Tour (Shanghai) - Full concert pt. 3/16
[HD/FANCAM] SNSD || 1st Asia Tour (Shanghai) - Full concert pt. 4/16
Casey James Prestwood & the Burning Angels
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Sunday, April 25, 2010
[HD/Fancam] SNSD || 1st Asia Tour (Shanghai) - Full concert pt. 3/16
[HD/Fancam] SNSD || 1st Asia Tour (Shanghai) - Full concert pt. 3/16
Aloft in the Sundry
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King for a Day
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Saturday, April 24, 2010
TS6 - mini concert - กั�" [2/4] �"�0ำ�"าแส�!๒�"�0
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The Closer Golf Mike National Tour Concert 3
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Le Divorce
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Common Loon
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Pat Metheny Orchestrion
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Against Me!
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Fucked Up
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Tequila Mockingbird
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Big Sandy & His Fly-Rite Boys
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Li Yuchun (Chris Lee) 2010"Why Me" Concert in NanJing�0.13 Love letter
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Cannibal Corpse
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Jazz at the Root Series
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Friday, April 23, 2010
Bob Mould
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Solar Bear
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Matt Darey
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The Informants
"People seem to think they need a cover because it makes them feel like, 'If I can hear a cover, I can have a good time,'" Kerry Pastine points out. "We give them a good time no matter what, and they're hooked after the first song....
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Damien Saez - J'accuse (Concert Lausanne)
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Greenwheel - "Dim Halo" (Live in Concert) RMTV official
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Live review: J�nsi @ the Paramount Theatre
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Live review: The Avett Brothers (both nights) @ the Boulder Theater � and an Avetty haiku contest
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Comedians of Chelsea Lately
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Eminem Mockingbird Live Concert
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The Mile High Makeout: The Pirate Signal warns that �No Weak Heart Shall Prosper�
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JS - Fireflies - Owl City (LA CONCERT!)
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Thursday, April 22, 2010
SNSD Concert- Oh! & Jessica Birthday w/ SHINee @ Shanghai (100417)
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All Leather
Justin Pearson has made a career out of being annoying — but it's a brutal, funny, sublime, uncompromising and at times even groundbreaking kind of annoying. With his main band of the past fifteen years, the mighty cyber-grind outfit the Locust, on an apparently indefinite hiatus, Pearson h...
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Savoy
"We did always want to play dance music, but we're also fascinated with the big-time stadium-rock feel, too," explains Ben Eberdt. "All of our music is dance-y, but a lot of it is very hard-edged and rock-y. We take a lot of rock influences. ...
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Nathaniel Rateliff
When Nathaniel Rateliff was fronting Born in the Flood, his voice was strident, powerful and pensive. It was impressive, but not uniquely his own. On "Once in a Great While," the opening track of his Rounder debut, an unblemished near-falsetto croon introduces the world to the new and improved Na...
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He may no longer be Rotten, but John Lydon is still quite the PiL
The same year the Sex Pistols broke up, John Lydon dropped the stage name of Johnny Rotten and formed what was arguably the most influential band of the post-punk era with Public Image Ltd. The band's second album, 1979's Metal Box, still seems brilliantly out of place and out of time with...
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Hot White at the Meadowlark
When Kevin Wesley and Darren Kulback started Hot White, it was more of an experimental noise-rock instrumental duo, with guitar and drums laying into seemingly improvisational pieces that were as angular as the were incendiary. With the addition in the fall of 2008 of Tiana Bernard on bent...
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Tommy Metz
Tommy Metz is at something of a crossroads with his main project, Iuengliss: He's talking about going fully instrumental on the next album, and the The Blossom Frontier sounds a lot like a musical release valve. True to the form of his previous work, there are two types of songs: electroni...
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Pitch Invasion makes poppy punk rock seem relevant again
Comprising veterans of Denver's punk-rock scene, the Pitch Invasion took its name from the phenomenon of a crowd at a soccer game getting unruly and invading the field, also known as "the pitch," and taking events into its own hands.
This weekend, the band — made up of Mike McCrory ...
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Under the electronic exterior of Savoy beats the heart of rock and roll
Meet Savoy, a dance act with the soul of a rock band.
"We did always want to play dance music, but we're also fascinated with the big-time stadium-rock feel, too," explains Ben Eberdt. "All of our music is dance-y, but a lot of it is very hard-edged and rock-y. We take a lot of rock influ...
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Pitch Invasion (CD release)
This weekend, the band � made up of Mike McCrory and Shane...
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Lust-Cats of the Gutters
From the opening track, the comically harrowing "Cemetary," through the playful nostalgia of "Pac-Man," the Lust-Cats have carved a new chapter in outsider punk rock by updating riot grrrl for the current era. "Stand-up Gal," especially the chorus ("Can't wait to see her/Kinda want to be her/She'...
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Megasoid at City Hall
Megasoid got its start as a Montreal-based mobile sound system with a predilection for turning illegal and unconventional spaces into after-hours parties. The duo's aggressive street sound is based in hip-hop beats wrapped in edgy, innovative production that blends old-school electro and n...
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Take the Mickey
Electro-pop has been zombified so badly over the past few years, it's no wonder that futurism now sounds totally quaint. The Denver trio Take the Mickey doesn't try to reinvent the CPU with its new full-length, Dinosaurs Now and Machines Later — but the band does make a valiant attem...
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Fang Island
Even though this Brooklyn-based band took its name from an article in The Onion about the location of Donald Rumsfeld's secret hideout, there's nothing sinister about the act's music. If anything, Fang Island, not unlike White Denim, figured out how to bring together styles that shouldn't ...
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Psychedelic Horseshit
Someone should seriously kill the term "shitgaze" — but it's not going to be these guys. Given the scatological name and the release of their 2009 Woodsist Records release, Shitgaze Anthems, it's clear that they embrace the designation. In 2008, Psychedelic Horseshit was part of an M...
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Get ready for dueling dueling piano bars
Reprise. A decade ago, Denver had dueling dueling piano bars: Sing Sing, which is still going strong at 1735 19th Street (with the slogan "LoDo doesn't get any lower"); and, over at 1949 Market Street, the Tavern Downtown was once the piano-pushing Soiled Dove. But now...
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Wednesday, April 21, 2010
B.o.B.
B.o.B. did his time in rap's AAA league, having brushes with success, remaining one or two degrees of separation from household-name status for three years. But that's all over now: His proper debut full-length, The Adventures of Bobby Ray, will be in stores next Tuesday, and, more likely ...
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Tuesday, April 20, 2010
Desert dispatch No. 3: Live review from Coachella
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Steal This Track: Orbit Service, Broken Tongues and Lust-Cats of the Gutters
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Lupe Fiasco and B.o.B.
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Monday, April 19, 2010
ACDC animated concert intro
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King Sunny Ade tour canceled after two deaths
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All Leather
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Megasoid
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Psychedelic Horseshit
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Red Sparowes and Fang Island
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Sunday, April 18, 2010
Desert dispatch No. 2: Live review from Coachella
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Keith Jarrett Köln Concert - Part 1 1 / 3
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The Dear Hunter
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Holly Golightly & the Broke-Offs
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Goatwhore
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Saturday, April 17, 2010
Desert dispatch No. 1: Live review from Coachella
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Richard Lewis
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The Swayback
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Yeasayer
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Hot White
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The Album Leaf
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In Bloom VII: Wunderland
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Public Image Ltd.
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Friday, April 16, 2010
Beatles Rooftop Concert - 2/3
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Jeffrey Osborne "Love Ballad" - Live Concert
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The Mile High Makeout: Who�s having fun?
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Tia Fuller Quartet (CD release)
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Thursday, April 15, 2010
Paul Simon: Call me Al, concert zimbabwe / South Africa
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The Big Motif
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Hannah Montana 3 - Full Length Concert
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News: Here�s your exclusive first look at the 2010 Denver Botanic Gardens concert series
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Josh Groban on Michael Buble's Concert
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The Who-Baba O'Riley@Concert For New York City 2/4
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Beatles Rooftop Concert - 1/3
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Holley 750
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Hunter Dragon (CD release)
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The Who-Won't Get Fooled Again@Concert For New York City 4/4
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The Who-Who Are You@Concert For New York City 1/4
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[HD] Radiohead - Saitama 2008 [TV Broadcast]
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White Rabbits
With the release of 2009's It's Frightening, White Rabbits took a darker turn in its musical path, with songs about uncertainty and human frailty. Even though the music was moodier, the frenetic energy of the Rabbits remained firmly in place, as evidenced by their fiery and forceful perfor...
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The Bedsit Infamy
Opening track "Harvest of the West" has the kind of blue-eyed soul sound favored by English bands of the early '80s — the kind that is clearly written to be catchy and poppy but with an underlying element of darkness and sharply observed commentary. "The Film Society Is Watching Me" deftly ...
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Phoenix
It will be hard to top last summer, when Phoenix unofficially took the mantle of the world's house band. But Thomas Mars and company are hardly a flash in the pan: After all, the album that catapulted them to unprecedented success was their fourth studio effort. They've been doing this for more t...
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Rightfully Accused
Remember the late '80s, when indistinguishable second-tier acts with names like Hurricane, Steelheart and Southgang walked the earth? Their stock-in-trade was power ballads, and their prettier, more polished brand of metal made the ladies swoon. Fittingly, their sound was reflected in their image...
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The Lumineers
The Lumineers recently transplanted from Brooklyn to Denver, but don't let that inform your opinions. Wesley and Jeremiah do not sound like the wave-catching hipsters associated with New York's hippest borough. No, these two sound honest and unadorned. Their self-titled EP is seven songs of what ...
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Wednesday, April 14, 2010
Akufen at the Bunker
Akufen's 2002 debut album, My Way, was one of those records that just seemed to stand alone, unique and perfect. The microhouse sound championed on the disc was deep and technical without being over-intellectualized. The use of microsecond snippets of sound, chopped up and shaped in...
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Jonsi
With Sigur Rós taking a break while some of its members start families, frontman Jón Thor "Jónsi" Birgisson decided to use the downtime to release an up album. Aptly titled Go, the disc is a delicate, earthy, orchestral marriage of spring-like warmth and Birgisson's fl...
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