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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February turned out to be a great month for music releases, and as much as I hate grouping recommendations into posts like this, other aspects of life are getting in the way of individual recommendations. These types of posts will have to serve as ‘better than nothing’ for the time being. Perfume Genius –...
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Cleveland's Cloud Nothings have arrived with Attack on Memory. There was no doubt this album would be my pick for this first month of 2012. It's inevitable that I miss out on a band at Fun Fun Fun fest every year and it seems 2011 was no exception. I had no...
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Looking out my window on this crisp November morning, all the Fall colors have disappeared and left only a few survivors hanging from the naked trees in the neighborhood. Winter is upon us here in Denver, Colorado and those few hangers-on will be gone with the next storm. It’s a transitional time, out with...
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It’s hard to believe it has been less than a year since we started talking about the black-veiled songstress Chelsea Wolfe. Since then she has released two albums, performed at SXSW, toured Europe, shared a stage with acts as diverse as Liturgy, How To Dress Well and Julianna Barwick, and now her Zev Dean...
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Youth Lagoon – The Year of Hibernation (Fat Possum, 2011) Bedroom projects are not usually known to have an immense amount of personality, so The Year of Hibernation acts as the exception that proves the rule. 22-year-old Trevor Powers is Youth Lagoon, but Youth Lagoon is only a part of Trevor Powers. The tracks...
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Dawn Golden And Rosy Cross – Blow (Mad Decent, 2011) This EP has been out for quite some time, but I’m just getting around to it. One of the earliest reviews of Dexter Tortoriello‘s bedroom project referred to it as ‘the perfect stuff for hangovers and comedowns‘, and while that may be true for...
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If you don’t know Chelsea Wolfe by now, you haven’t been following along. By far our favorite female artist of ’11, this dark(er) interpretation of Nick Cave‘s song might promise an open door, but it is anything but inviting. Chelsea Wolfe - I Let Love In (Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds) @ BOTH,...
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Before Tom Krell knew how to dress well, he lived right here in Colorado — 20 miles away from the stage at Hi-Dive where he just finished his debut performance in The Centennial State. ‘I guess I’m the Homecoming Queen‘ Krell admitted to the audience after an eclectic DJ set comprised of Terius Nash‘s...
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Cults – Cults (In The Name Of, 2011) It seems a little strange to be recommending Cults debut album now. I feel like I have been listening to most of these songs for a over a year now — probably because I have. Go Outside was one of my favorite songs of summer last...
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The ‘chillwave summer’ is officially in the history books and the genre itself has been declared null and void, but that doesn’t mean the market for lo-fi, laptop-manipulated, 80′s synth doesn’t exist. There is still room for the one-man show in the club, in the concert hall and on the festival stage. There are...
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