Which Cults of The Radio Age
Broadcast has released a new album along with a set of new videos in collaboration with graphic designer Julian House, the co-creator of the experimental record lable Ghost Box and also the man behind the experimental music project called The Focus Group. Julian House has worked with artists such as Stereolab and Primal Scream, designing cover art and directing music videos. The first collaborative album between Broadcast and Julian House is called Broadcast and The Focus Group Investigate Witch Cults Of The Radio Age. This album is true Psych-pop at its best, with ethereal vocals, Ghost Box inspired “vintage electronics, haunted television sountracks,” and killer visuals. ...Read more
Two Interactive Music Videos
In a time where everyone and their mom can throw a music video up on Youtube, the newest, most wow-making way to produce music videos is to make them interactive. In the video “Dark Bubbles” from Black Moth Super Rainbow, the user can change the sky from night to day with a wave of her mouse, or, if preferred, by waving at the webcam. As the actor trampolines through the song, the darkness or lightness of the video depends on the choices of the listener. The video, then, becomes something of a game, an experience where certain movements produce certain rewards. Screen Shot from Dark Bubbles Like any game, some interactive music videos can be befuddling...Read more
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tags: Black Moth Super Rainbow Emilie Simon Interactivity Dark Bubbles Chinatown
Haiti Benefit Show
Some local bands and the rad dudes who live at 124 Delaware are doing a benefit show for the unfortunate residents of Haiti. In order to see this show you must donate at least one can of food and $1 to the Haitians. Cannons, Tired Eyes, Citizen, & Ashtray will begin playing at 9:00 on Saturday, January 30th. Let's do this!...Read more
Harper Phillips Cartography on ITunes!
Artists You Need To Be Paying Attention To Right Now: Harper Phillips This week’s installment of Artists You Need To Be Paying Attention To Right Now stars Harper Phillips, the singer/ukulele playing songwriter behind the new album, Cartography, which is available on ITunes (or if you dig purchasing things that you can hold in your hand, you can get an old fashioned hard copy by going to www.harperphillips.com). A bit of advice, if you go to ITunes, don’t just pick two or three tunes that you think you’ll like the best, hit the tiny ‘purchase’ button, and then leave the rest of the songs on the shelves to electronically rot. We’v...Read more
Hanatarash
Snot-nosed. Fucking snot-nosed. Hanatarash pours out of your mouth like a coarse slur aimed directly at the son of a bitch who just laid his fist into your jaw. Historically-speaking, Hanatarash (Hanatarashi [literally meaning "snot-nosed"] as known earlier on in their development) were an outfit that developed from Osaka, Japan in 1984. Yamantaka Eye, who later started Boredoms, and Mitsuru Tabata made up the original line-up of this front (to refer to them as a band seems unwarranted or insult. Somewhere between these two junctures. Maybe more simply like a half-yellowed bruise that didn't hurt as much as it does now when it was a deep hematoma blue. Just before the heal). From its early, ...Read more
Matt & Baily's Excellent Monolith Adventures
ACCESS PASS Photographs by Matthew Novak, our Photography Editor (except this one. I took it. duh.) THE ILLITERATE FASHION EDITOR That is I, Baily Rose. I studied & took notes & stuff on my cute little Steno Notepad I had gotten from my Grandma.... but I still couldn't figure out who the hell those old guys were (Monotonix) back stage everybody was taking pictures of. Matt: " They look pretty important." Me: "Yah.... they must be... hmmm... wonder who they are...?" OUR FIRST INTERVIEW This guy. I stopped him because I liked his outfit. and his necklace. Turns out this Peter D Spear fellow was in the band R...Read more
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tags: Monolith Matt Novak Baily Rose Benjamin Miller Sandi Calistro Neon Indian HEALTH
Interactivity: The Music Video 2.0
It was only a matter of time before somebody updated the music video for the age of interactive media. That somebody is Director Sam Jones. With the aide of interactive production company Tool of North America, Jones created a choose your own adventure version of the Cold War Kids' "I've Seen Enough", in which users can customize the video and the song in an almost infinite amount of combinations. Shot inside a dimly lit studio, the video captures the band playing and recording four variations of the song. Filmed individualy, each band member plays their part four separate times, each time changing instrumentation while maintaining the same tempo. The resulting video is actual...Read more
Denver Does Denver Recorded!
Thanks to Lance over at The Flat Response, a majority of the music from Denver Does Denver, illiterate's night of song swapping at Old Curtis St. and Bar Bar back on June 6 , is now available for your listening pleasure. Re-live almost all of the magical madness here. My personal highlights included: 1. The Legendary River Drifters unexpectedly jerking a heart string or two with Onemana's Cummdumpster 2. Safeboating is No Accident's old timey jangle of Pictureplane's neon dance anthem Day Glowed 3. Doo Crowder, the mild mannered songsmith channeling the fire for Pirate Signal's Yonnas 4. Ian Cooke crooning Rachel Pollard's love lament the Sea Surged 5. The Pink Hawks' hau...Read more
TITWRENCH!
When the Underground reaches the surface, where do you go to find the really rawkus kids? You know, the one's who, if they don't always push the envelope, aren't afraid to push to get there? In the case of the Underground Music Showcase, which has dropped "Denver" from it's title and added national acts to it's lineup in an attempt to grow into, what event organizer and Denver Post Music Critic, Ricardo Baca, calls "a South By Southwest style festival" to find the underground within the underground look to the feminine fringe i.e. TITWRENCH. Spearheaded by Denver's DJ Sarah Slater, TITWRENCH formed as a committe of radical female Denverites who believed Denver neede...Read more
A weekend of Casual Satisfaction.
Wednesday night’s accidental jaunt to Rhinoceropolis led me to a rad laser and smoke machine-laced dance party with Denver’s best-kept secret, Millennium Child. His set of crazy space jams was other-worldly, and a nice kick off to an otherwise drab early week of dancing (I’m really only referring to the Fischerspooner show Monday night at the Ogden that went off like two gay dads practicing dance routines in their garage.) But enough about what’s already happened this week… The later half of the week is super promising, beginning with a trip to Beta tonight, Thursday, May 22nd, for a killer set by Moderat. Modeselektor and Apparat, two giant German ele...Read more