To call it a music festival is an understatement. The Scattered Arts Collective’s Underground Music Festival was a feast for the ears, eyes and everything else right down to our happy little neurons that danced the night away to this delectable indulgence of the senses and sent the 2700 block of Larimer Street aglow. We […]
After two extremely successful albums in their native Sweden as well as Italy, The Ark returns with their third album, State of the Ark.
Formed in the winter of 2004, Cities already has a few notches on their belt to be proud of. They’ve shared the stage with such notables as Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, I Love You But I’ve Chosen Darkness, Thunderbirds are Now!, and We are Scientists. Now the baby-faced boys from Chapel Hill, NC have […]
Exploding out of Long Beach California, Clit 45 hit the ground running with their debut full length Self-Hate Crimes in 2005. To supply the demand of their quickly growing fan base they return with this collection of out-of-print songs from past 7”s and EP’s entitled, 2,4,6,8…we’re the kids you love hate. Their brand of punk […]
2Mex (of the world famous Visionaries) and beat maker/emcee, Life Rexall, are $martyr. With their underground epoch Money Symbol Martyrs, they deliver 13 tracks that run the gamut from cream pursuits to love to the craft of hip-hop. They also allow room to showcase talent from guests like Busdriver, Sondoobie, Akuma, and The Shapeshifters’ own […]
The tracks on YoYoYoYo are friggin’ sneaky. Rapper Naeem Juwan, known as Spank Rock, and the eclectic skills of Alex Epton, aka xxxchange, throw down some mad beats, sprinkled with all sorts of alien, space age tricks and tweaks. Then, after a few listens, his lyrics “I tapped the ho” and “ooh that pussy gets […]
Wolfmother – WolfmotherInterscopeThe transition of quality from CD to live set isn’t always guaranteed to be consistent. It can actually go either way. A band that rocked your world at a club over the weekend can fall flat on Monday morning when you throw their $5 EP into your car’s stereo. Or you find that […]
Say what they will about hipsters (though no self-respecting hipster would admit to being one), but we tend to encourage creativity and have many varied interests. Sure, some of those interests include spending obscene amounts of time on hair, but also include art and music. These twenty-to-thirty-something’s are the people who make First Friday a […]
