Album Review: Broken Record – Routine
Harkening to bands like Title Fight and early Death Cab for Cutie, Routine, the third album from Denver-based Broken Record, is a ride on the churned up wake of late stage capitalism. This post emo/hardcore band is not out to drain your money (although they could probably use some if you’ve got it), instead they […]
DNA Picasso Asks the Big Question: “IF NOT ME, THEN WHO?”
Vulnerability, authenticity, and range are exactly what DNA Picasso’s new album, IF NOT ME, THEN WHO?, brings to the Colorado music scene. Released on October 14, 2025, Picasso’s ninth studio project represents some of his best work yet. With this album, Picasso makes his mark on the music industry, asserting that he’s built for this […]
COLLUR – So Be It
By Shane Loewe It’s not everyday you interview an artist with as much drive and passion for their craft as the underground alternative rapper, COLLUR, and you can tell by the way he talks about his newly released debut album, SO BE IT. Whether you’re a fan or a future-fan, it’s hard to deny the […]
Southern Avenue – Family Album Review
By Briana Harris For Memphis-based blues and soul band Southern Avenue, family is a value interwoven into the band’s past, present, and future together. On the band’s 4th studio album, Family, they proudly own their collective narrative and their powerful sound rooted in the musical life they have built together. The band features Tierinii Jackson […]
Kaoticus: ‘Mass Hysteria’ EP Review
By Nate Wilde For generations, heavy music has served as a worthy and efficient means to disconnect from the mundane and often harsh, debilitating, and unwanted advances of everyday life. Sitting and listening to a record that causes one to involuntarily clench one’s fists and headbang from the sheer energy and passion is an experience […]
Album Review: Frail Talk – Microspirit
As far as albums go, Microspirit is more of a frolic in the garden than a wonder through the woods. Quaint almost to the point of cutesy, Frail Talk crafted a subdued fourteen tracks, spit shining their superb indie folk in nostalgia. Helmed by Northern Colorado-based Cor Wright and Alex Woodchek along with drummer Tobias […]
Album Review: Spencer Zweifel and The Life or Death Situation
Zweifel. German for “Doubt.” From the root word zwei — meaning “two.” Or, when really straining the poetics of Middle High German for the purposes of this clumsy metaphor… Zwei — meaning “dopple.” As in “doppelganger.” A supernatural double which reflects our inner self. Contradictions — like confronting our distorted mirror image — arise when […]
Ovira is on a Mission to Spread Intergalactic Love
Fighting the Force Not so long ago in a galaxy somewhere nearby, an alien empress walked down a boulevard lined with her adoring subjects on her coronation day. Before she could reach the dias, a deafening, hollow sound from above silenced the reverie, and a black cloud spread across the sky. It was the void, […]