Music

Blast from the past

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 When I was a teenager, I sweated out my adolescent angst in a barely listenable garage band like countless other young, hopeful musicians with grandiose visions of rock stardom...

Back-to-back spreading the energy

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The Acidophiles want to take you on a trip In Amandha Gilson’s biology textbook at CSU, the word “acidophile” referred to an organism that flourished in an acidic, normally inhospitable environment. As a band name, it evokes lonely, beautiful imagery of obscure ...

Dead Floyd stitches together the best of both worlds

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  If you’re among those who have never heard of Dead Floyd, a very innovative and very talented double tribute band, you might be asking: Huh? Whatizzit? An homage to Pink Floyd, the original psychedelic arena prog-rockers or devotees of the Grateful Dead, ...

Fun is what Cobra Starship does best

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  Sometimes, a band can tell when it’s making a hit song. That’s the story of Cobra Starship and “Good Girls Go Bad...

The Sadies keep it dark and circular on their latest album

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Darker Circles, The Sadies’ latest work, is appropriately titled. The album is as cyclical as it is dark. Guitar chords and drum riffs allude to previous tracks constantly, building a solid and steady album that concludes beautifully...

When rock is illegal

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 Land of the free, sure, but every once in a great while, there will be a story in local and national media that details an American artist’s struggle against censorship. If an artist is in fact fined or jailed, the general response of many Americans is pure outrage ...

30db creates music from personal hardships

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For Jeff Austin, the mandolinist for Yonder Mountain String Band, the new group he has formed by teaming up with Umphrey’s McGee lead singer Brendan Bayliss is completely unlike anything he has done before, and that’s the way he likes it...

Octopus Nebula emerges from the depths

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It`s becoming pretty clear that the summer of 2010 will be the launching point of Octopus Nebula’s success. This is the year when hard work is converted directly into new studio albums, national tour dates and even chumming around with the big names at Colorado’s ...

Inspired by Boulder’s past, Otis Taylor digs into his own

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Brant Turney drove his shovel into the soil on a property in west Boulder a couple of years ago, working a landscaping project for the property owner, when the business end of the blade hit something that wasn’t supposed to be there. Or, wasn’t supposed to be found...

Greg Laswell takes a bow

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  It is nice to know that Greg Laswell has a sense of humor. When asked how his latest album, Take a Bow, compares to his previous albums, he deadpans, “I use different song titles and lyrics and melodies...

For second CD, Mute Math had to restart from scratch

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  As Mute Math began touring in support of its latest CD, Armistice, the band faced a familiar challenge — how to rework the new songs so the four-piece band can play them live...

Mason Reed falls prey to his own pretension

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The most on-target aspect of hippie-blues rocker Mason Reed’s latest EP, You Can’t Come Back From Heaven, is the CD packaging. The cover features a slightly dazed Reed looking resolutely through his aviators and out the windshield of a blurry automobile. Sun-...