Soundcloud Gems: Elektrik Sunset
Only in California would you find a band like Elektrik Sunset: a blend of surfer rock a la Camper Van Beethoven and the stripped down energy of the punk genre…in short, perfect for a Warren Miller video on the ski slopes or shots of summer skating in swimming pools, concrete sidewalks or just about any...
Soundcloud Gems: Mark Petrie
Compliments of Apple, we all have the luxury of walking around with our own personal soundtracks bleeding into every step, every breath, and every daydream. Some of us err on the side of the Top 40 charts or whatever super cool, so-ultra-trendy-I-could-puke tracks are currently featured on Hipster Runoff and then there are those whose...
Soundcloud Gems: Asian She
If Bret Easton Ellis’s book, Less Than Zero, had a soundtrack packaged with it, the tunes might sound a little bit like Asian She–a pair of California music makers whose band name is decidedly deceptive. Frankly, judging the band by its moniker delivers expectations of the ever-saccharin Japanese duo Cibo Matto, but instead Noah Lebenzon and...
Noteworthy: “Near & Undear” ~ The Bixby Knolls
Every now and again, a record turns up that I know is going to use and abuse my headphones for the better part of the next six months. Even rarer is when said record is the debut album from a band I’ve never heard of. If it weren’t for the fact that I know otherwise,...
Soundcloud Gems: Orlando
Some nights you want a particular song as much as you want a particular drink. Whether a broken-hearted lonely dusk or an evening of numb-out or a cascade of hours wherein every moment is a breath of fireworks chroma burning the air around it, you want the sensation that both the music and the drink...
Soundcloud Gems: The Cancel
Just as perfumers are wont to do, The Cancel integrates elements of jazz, lounge and instrumental hip-hop with the auditory essences of the world RJD2 cultivates his own tunes in–sashaying into velvety musical elegance. Popping and locking from beat to beat, this Ukranian duo discharge tunes that take me back to the lounge parties where...
Noteworthy: “Sugar and Spice” ~ Willow Smith
Willow Smith wouldn’t find a place among the more than 100G of music that my iTunes collection consists of–at least not normally. I am neither a fan of the AutoTune generation nor most of the electro-pop meets dubstep auditory horrors that much of the mainstream music industry has churned out over the last few years....
Soundcloud Gems: Andrew Gaskins
A delectable listen featuring sprays of twinkle-light electronica hanging in the window of the contemporary classical genre, Denver composer Andrew Gaskins proffers his painted glass version of the world through the hum of technology. Erring on the side of longer tracks a la Explosions In the Sky or The American Dollar or even British outfit,...
Tuneage at Denver Crowne Plaza New Year’s Eve Block Party
We live in an amalgam of colors, cultures, sounds and shimmering spectacles and the world of music is undoubtedly a part of that gorgeous lattice. In the case of the Denver Crowne Plaza New Year’s Eve Block Party, the experience of keeping it local while embracing what JJ Walker of The Collective 360 calls, “something...
Colorado Day of Peace for the Newtown, CT Tragedy
Commencing in the early blue morning hours of the first day of winter this Friday, Coloradans are invited to come together in a day-long show of support for those affected by the tragic events that took place at Sandy Hook Elementary School last week. It is critical that we come together as a community and...
Soundcloud Gems: Broke For Free
With knives of beach weather, sandy synths hazing the background and thrums of bass guitar swaying seawater submerged, Broke For Free loafs in the liminal space that’s musically season-less. Based in Oakland, the instrumentalist otherwise known as Tom Cascino produces a featherweight soundtrack that’s sprite, fun, and somehow worthy of chilling out to. “The Gold...
The Worst Holiday Music of the Season
Just like during the disco era, it seems every person with half a cell of musical talent feels the need to put out a holiday single or album and frankly, a lot of the tuneage is just terrible. In the non-holiday spirit of bashing on the crummiest of crummy Christmas, Hanukkah or other holiday-oriented songs, here are...
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