1928 – 2012 Maurice Sendak, author of Where The Wild Things Are, died this morning due to complications of a stroke. He was 83 years old. Looking back on his life’s work, I realize I only knew him for Where The Wild Things Are, which serves as quite a testament to how strong of...
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1964 – 2012 Adam Yauch has died. He was 47 years old. The man known as MCA was diagnosed with cancer back in 2009 and today he succumbed to the disease. Yauch was one third of the Beastie Boys — the group who started out punk before enraging parents in suburbs all over the...
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Abel Tesfaye and his new band stopped off at the Center Stage in Atlanta for yet another sold out show. The Weeknd have joined the likes of M83 and James Blake in record ticket sales for relatively small acts. Tickets for the San Francisco show at The Fillmore are going for as much as...
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April was a good month for music, but it did provide a lull in what has been an incredible start to the new year. That being said, there are still quite a few albums worth checking out, and as much as I hate grouping recommendations into posts like this, other aspects of life are...
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Nas is one of the best rappers alive. I am happy to say I never gave up on him. In fact, I just saw him perform a couple years ago and he killed it like it was 1994. Sure, not everything he’s released since Illmatic has been newsworthy, but if I’m not mistaken, Nas...
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Highlights include Bon Iver, Feist, The Shins, Santigold, Toxic Holocaust, Jamey Johnson, Xiu Xiu, Mark Lanegan Band, Schoolboy Q, Emily Wells, Meshuggah, Baroness, Social Distortion, Roger Waters, MINI FEST, Lotus Plaza and The Black Keys.
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The Heritage Hunter Tour brought three metal heavyweights back to Denver on Monday night. The sea of black shirts could be seen migrating down Colfax to the Fillmore Auditorium before the sun began to set. With a start time of 7:00pm printed on the tickets, those familiar with the Satanic stylings of Swedish revivalists...
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Saturday turned out to be one of those days when I truly feel for those who do not live in Denver, Colorado. The morning started out in line for Record Store Day at Twist & Shout. This was my third RSD at my favorite mile high record store and once again the crowd was...
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London musician/producer Aaron Jerome brought his masked alter-ego SBTRKT to Boulder last night. Along with his partner in crime, lyricist Sampha, SBRTKT did exactly what you would expect him to do — he turned the nearly sold-out Fox Theatre into a sweltering dance party resembling the UK garage scene that help spawn this brand of...
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As the first chords of “Autre Temps” opened the Alcest show, much the way they open their latest album, Les Voyages de l’Âme, I found it unsettling that we shared the room with less than 100 people. Hailing from Bagnols-sur-Cèze, France, Alcest are arguably the best in the subgenre of musicians combining the density...
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When we wrote the profile on Profound Lore Records earlier this year, one of questions I posed to Chris Bruni was ‘ever thought of doing anything like the Power of the Riff shows that happened on the West Coast this year?’ His answer, in summary, was he would like to do it if he...
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