AltWeeklies Wire
Stunning and Spellbindingnew
The dozen songs of Springtime span anguish and transcendentally drunken sex as easily as the everyday epiphanies of bus rides and back-road drives.
Leaving the Proverbial Shednew
Denver's music scene could use a healthy dose of Vitamins.
Tags: vitamins, Vitamins EP
Rehashed Yet Illuminatingnew
Via sheer wizardry, Ruin feels like a rebirth, with Joey Burns's recycling of the archetypal taking on the dimension of myth.
Tags: Calexico, Garden Ruin
Fragile, Elastic Masterpiecenew
Destroyer actually does destroy indie-rock wussitude, by channeling it into the sonic equivalent of a passive-aggressive apocalypse.
Tags: Destroyer, Destroyer's Rubies
Rocking Class Heroesnew
"The Two-Man Who" holds steady on the fringe.
Westword |
Jason Heller |
02-28-2006 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Swearing at Motorists
Wild Onesnew
The Horndribbles will satisfy your animal urges.
Westword |
Jason Heller |
02-07-2006 |
Performance
Tags: performance
French Connectionnew
Marianne Dissard and Naim Amor speak the international language.
Westword |
Jason Heller |
01-24-2006 |
Profiles & Interviews
New World Ordernew
Peter Hook has found a new way to move the masses -- as a DJ.
Westword |
Jason Heller |
01-24-2006 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Peter Hook
Notes From Undergroundnew
Two decades on, Denver's Little Fyodor is still strange, witty and putting out geeky art-punk.
Westword |
Jason Heller |
01-09-2006 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Little Fyodor
Well Rednew
Red Sparowes' debut full-length is a pounding, trance-inducing epic akin to a communion of Godspeed You! Black Emperor, the Swans and Sister-era Sonic Youth.
Westword |
Jason Heller |
08-16-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Red Sparowes
Time Machinenew
Songwriting and willful idiocy are two of the strengths of the Omens' debut album.
Westword |
Jason Heller |
07-26-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
Call of the Wildnew
Tweaked and irreverent, Caribou's digital psychedelia refuses to be tamed.
Westword |
Jason Heller |
05-18-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
Rock Ethicnew
Local 33's debut CD is a reminder of all that is pure, simple and honest about country and rock, a pep talk for anyone who's ever stared down misery, mortality and the void of the open road and lived to tell the tale.
Westword |
Jason Heller |
04-12-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
Against the Grainnew
A heckler who demanded that folk group d.biddle play faster might have been surprised to learn that singer/guitarist Duncan Barlow is a punk-rock veteran.
Westword |
Jason Heller |
04-09-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
Low Frontnew
After a decade of frigid indie rock, the Duluth band's temperature is rising.
Westword |
Jason Heller |
04-02-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
