“Lu-ci-feeeeeer!” The ceremony started at 10:30pm on a bone chilling night at Denver’s Marquis Theater. The 8th of 13 ‘dates of doom’ for Sweden’s enigmatic retro-metallers brought with it all the elements that are now expected from this young, hyped group of nameless ghouls. Fronted by Papa Emeritus, a skeletal figure in red and...
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Grimes (aka Claire Boucher) first sparked my interest with 2010′s Halfaxa, became one of my favorite new artists with her daytime performance at FFF6 and left me wanting more with this year’s Darkbloom. According to GvB the wait will not be long for the next full length LP, Visions. What was originally slated for...
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Those of us who made it out to Hi-Dive last night were rewarded with a surprisingly mellow psychedelic jam from Philadelphia‘s The War On Drugs. The band took the stage at 11:00pm with very little audience engagement. Adam Granduciel is not your dynamic frontman, and to be honest I was a little put off...
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The Morning Clouds – Wasted Youth Blues (Lefse, 2011) Wasted Youth Blues is the debut EP from Colorado’s own Josh Wambeke (of Phineas Gage and Fell). His latest solo project, The Morning Clouds, is a dreamy, druggy affair that blends as well with the crispness of these autumn evenings as it does with the misty...
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Zola Jesus – Conatus (Sacred Bones, 2011) Don’t let the album artwork fool you, Nika Roza Danilova is still making dark, gloomy music as Zola Jesus. Stridulum was one of the most exciting releases from a young artist in 2010, and while Conatus is just slightly less addictive, it is worth checking out. Her...
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WU LYF – Go Tell Fire To The Mountain (LYF Recordings, 2011) WU LYF (pronounced Woo Life) are World United! Lucifer Youth Foundation and no, they are not the newest black metal band from Brooklyn. They are a ‘heavy pop’ band from Manchester, England and now you know more than I did when I...
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As Yeasayer took the stage for their encore at the Ogden Theatre last night, I was hoping for redemption. What I got instead was another unrecognizable composition; an electronic tribal jam from the future about faith and patience, two things I had given up on a half hour earlier. Having abandoned my post up...
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Spring is in full effect in Denver today. I am looking out my window at the kids on their bikes as the sun sets over the Rockies. The scene is quite different from the wet gloom that was 4/20. Yesterday was a shitty day overall and even though I had purchased an advance ticket...
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If there was one show I was sorry to have missed while in Asia, it was the Metalliance Tour at Summit Music Hall. I don’t know anyone who made that show in Denver, but Genji (and Ian Mackaye) caught the House of Blues show on 4/5 and his review is like salt in the...
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One of the first bands we stumbled across this year at the Westword Music Showcase was Houses. I had seen their name on the marquis quite a few times but had never taken the time to check them out. We only caught the last few songs of their set, but they really peeked the...
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How To Dress Well – Love Remains Tom Krell from New York also lives in Germany. He also goes by the name How To Dress Well and has put out an EP, a R. Kelly tribute to his best friend and a full length album of his lo-fi R&B stylings. I have been listening...
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