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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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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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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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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This was supposed to be the show of the year. The brilliant Enslaved supported by the two biggest metal darlings of 2010, Alcest and Ghost. I got my ticket months ago, was looking forward to seeing all three bands and had the night off of work. However, because of some visa problems or some...
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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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Locked in a garage on a summer night while five guys beat some of the loudest noise you’ve ever heard out of their instruments might not be everyone’s idea of a good time, but for the thirty people who stuck around after a hardcore evening in Denver, Deafheaven were serving up exactly what we...
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Deafheaven – Roads to Judah (Deathwish Inc., 2011) The San Francisco Muni Metro schedule (or lack thereof) has been known to cause fits of extreme rage among the city’s commuters, but instead of turning to vandalism or random acts of violence, George Clarke and Kerry McCoy channeled their fury into Roads to Judah, by...
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Yuck – Yuck (Fat Possum, 2011) Yuck are a group of young individuals from all over the world who came together in London. They make fuzzy, reverb soaked 90′s indie rock in the vein of Sonic Youth, My Bloody Valentine and The Jesus and Mary Chain with some Sebadoh thrown in for good measure. ...
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