War on Sound Mini Album is sort of an appetizer to the Moonbabies upcoming full-length release. A lazier band might consider eight songs totaling around forty minutes as a completed effort that includes eight originals and two covers. Just throw some filler in there and sell it for eighteen bucks. Ola Frick and Carina Johansson, […]
Driving from Portland to San Francisco, Craig Fox, vocalist and guitarist for Detroit base band The Greenhornes, recalls having played in the city over two years ago at Bottom of the Hill. This time around and as headliners for The White Stripes, the group that also includes Patrick Keeler on drums, and Jack Lawrence on […]
Writer of O (Pola Rapaport) Passion comes in all forms, shapes and sizes. It is a very individual thing, like a finger print or your favorite color. What is provocative to some is scandalous to others. Passion is often linked to love, and in the case of Dominique Aury, her timeless gift to her lover […]
LOCAL SHORT FILM – SPIN (JAMIN WINANS) In a deserted alley within the depths of downtown Denver, a DJ angel by the name of Scratch (played by Hayze II) drops from the sky along with his gear and an assignment: to reverse a series of events and right the wrongs. Using his turntable and knobs, […]
For most bands, even for those who are on tour for weeks at a time, the thought of playing two full-length shows in one evening would seem exhausting. For Born in the Flood, it’s just what was planned for their For Fear That We May Not Be EP release party last month at Hi-Dive in […]
To get those of us familiar with the sounds of the down underground, EQ/Stomp Pty Ltd. has launched a new compilation series, an offshoot from their Balance releases called Electric 01. In the past Balance has brought many an unknown DJ into the spotlight, and this time around the light shines on Gavin Keitel. Keitel […]
Brian Setzer‘s been through a few incarnations of swaggerin’, swingin’ hepcat, from the rock of the Stray Cats to his 17-piece Orchestra that helped usher in the neo-swing craze back in the late ‘90s. He’s always had big hair and big dreams of sharing the earliest counter-culture music with the world, though, and on this […]
Alright boys and girls, it’s time to journey into the vast, uncharted territories of the sub-genre lexicon and pick ourselves up some modifiers to describe the debut full length album by the Radiant Republic of Texas. Radiant is not so much a band as it is an ambitious recording endeavor, overseen, and constructed completely (drums, […]
The Occasion strike us like urban gypsies; but that probably makes you think they are a jangling pack of unskilled musicians that would be on target at Burning Man. On the contrary – and to the credit of The Occasion – that is not the case. Rather, the five-piece works each instrument and their vocals […]
I was captured instantly by the line in Matt Costa’s opening track from Songs We Sing, “Yellow Taxi,” where he dreams of how the car-for-hire can take him away. This is especially fitting as I sit with two phones going, one in each ear, and the afternoon sunshine starts to beat through the windows, beckoning […]
