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Albums, singles and shows, reviewed.

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MusicTop Tunes Thursday: Ezra Furman — Perpetual Motion PeopleFrenetic and shaky, Furman delivers a parcel of tunes so jam packed of intention it’s hard not to break down in some punk rock convulsion, hunched over your air piano, banging out imaginary chords. While not as feverishly paced as his usual fare, “Lousy Connection,” a lead single, lays the toothy lyrical musings over a groovy doo-wop, shining light on Furman’s sensitive side.Clark Lamson · Jul 16, 2015

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MusicNew Music Monday: Bilal — In Another LifeWith In Another Life, Bilal releases a collection of tunes ripe for the season. The record kicks off with “Sirens II,” which paints the picture of the slow and unwitting seduction of our main character. With a bossy beat, and a bass line some of you might recognize from Jay-z’s “Picasso Baby,” it’s the perfect setting for the sensual jaunt that is to come.Clark Lamson · Jul 6, 2015

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MusicAlbum Review: Django and Jimmie— Merle Haggard and Willie NelsonThough we’d all like to believe that each inspired sound that comes from our favorite artists are completely original, the fact is that even our heroes have influences.Clark Lamson · Jul 2, 2015

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MusicNew Music Monday: Thundercat — The Beyond / Where Giants RoamThis week, Thundercat has released a new “mini-album” entitled The Beyond / Where the Giants Roam. Co-produced by long time collaborator Flying Lotus, TB/WtGR clocks in at a bite sized six tracks. If you’re thinking the diminutive packaging is telling of the content, think again. In an interview with Billboard, Bruner discussed how the high volume of collaborations he’s been involved with generated a creative catalyst within him: “it was kind of like a by-product of everything that would be happening.Clark Lamson · Jun 29, 2015

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MusicNew Music Monday: Teen Men — Teen MenSet against the 90 degree days and the blood orange sunsets of Colorado summer, Teen Men are a tall glass of cool, dry water. The debut record is out now on most major music services, and look out for the vinyl on shelves July 14.Clark Lamson · Jun 22, 2015

MusicAlbum Review: City States – GeographyNo two people explore loss in the same way, particularly when it comes to musicians.Christopher Sheridan · Jun 18, 2015

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MusicAlbum Review: Deerhoof – La Isla BonitaImagine Speed Racer has just collided with a cargo train full of toxic sludge and candy.Clark Lamson · Jun 18, 2015

Album cover of pink and blue abstract vertical strips with the text A Place to Bury Strangers and Transfixation.

MusicAlbum Review: A Place To Bury Strangers – TransfixationAfter some much needed down time the trio reformed with a new and refreshed outlook on the project and proceeded to lay down the most raucous addition to their discography yet. On February 17th, APTBS released their new album, a perfect representation of why we need pop music and all its predictability. Transfixation exists, if only as a measuring post against the aural insanity that is Transfixation.Clark Lamson · Jun 18, 2015

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MusicAlbum Review: Dark Bird is Home— The Tallest Man On EarthIn late 2006, Kristian Matsson charmed listeners with his debut selftitled EP The Tallest Man on Earth.Clark Lamson · Jun 16, 2015

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MusicNew Music Monday: Sharon Van Etten — I Don’t Want to Let You DownFor me, the best artists (musical or not) are the ones who are growing from project to project.Clark Lamson · Jun 15, 2015

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MusicCrítica del àlbum: Fórmula Vol. 2— Romeo SantosDespués de su desintegración de Aventura, Romeo Santos se lanzó como solista en el 2011.Crystal Mendoza · Jun 12, 2015

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MusicAlbum Review: Kamasi Washington— The EpicIf you’ve never heard the name Kamasi Washington, there’s a reason for that. It’s because up until now, he’s had no solo records outside a few small self releases. Like Kishi Bashi, Washington has supported many a musician. His first national tour was with Snoop Dogg, and he joined Raphael Saadiq for his first international tour. Before releasing his new record The Epic, he lent his skills to records like Flying Lotus’ You’re Dead! and Kendrick Lamar’s masterful To Pimp A Butterfly.Clark Lamson · Jun 9, 2015

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MusicNew Music Monday: Donnie Trumpet & The Social Experiment — SurfIf you were confused this week about reports of a new Chance The Rapper album, don’t worry, you weren’t the only one.Clark Lamson · Jun 8, 2015

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MusicAlbum Review: Bones Muhroni— MaxwellBones Muhroni drummer Ryan Wykert describes their music as a funky folk band, but Ryan was always a little weird.Jed Murphy · Jun 3, 2015

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MusicNew Music Monday: My Brightest Diamond — I Had Grown WildWhen the whisper quiet fire that is My Brightest Diamond first hits your headphones, you wouldn’t expect that its matriarch Shara Worden hails from Arkansas.Clark Lamson · May 25, 2015

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MusicNew Music Monday: Mac Demarco — “The Way You’d Love Her”“The Way You’d Love Her” is the lead single from Another One, the mini-LP scheduled for an August 7th release. The track doesn’t do much to push outside Demarco’s wobbly-kneed stoner yodels, but I’m not sure anyone wanted him to. I know I didn’t. “The Way You’d Love Her” features the same smiley strumming and light keyboard work we have come to expect, though the vocal ventures closer to earlier works from Rock and Rock Night Club. Demarco creates a lazy river with his melodies, which the listeners glide abidingly down. The author has an unusual knack for writing melodies that feel upbeat, while creating a sneaking feeling that the content doesn’t echo the sentiment.Clark Lamson · May 18, 2015

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MusicThe Thrill is Gone: The Passing of BB KingRIP: Riley B. King (1925-2015)BandWagon Magazine · May 15, 2015

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MusicNew Music Monday: Mumford & Sons — Wilder MindMumford may have gained their fame riding (some say starting) the wave of popularity for pop-folk music, but Wilder Mind finds the band ditching almost all of their familiarly twangy tunes for a fairly straight laced alternative rock sound. In place of fever pitched banjos come shining, sometimes dry guitars. The resulting sound places them closer to War on Drugs, Ryan Adams, or Ben Howard than any of their pop-folk contemporaries.Clark Lamson · May 11, 2015

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MusicAblum Review: Breach & Bellow – “Burn the Effigy”esse Spencer, local celebrity and adamant musician released his latest endeavor from his solo project Breach & Bellow this last month. Burn the Effigy is B&B’s debut album, but Spencer is anything but novice to the music scene. From Longmont, Colorado he was born into music.Rose Hedberg · May 4, 2015

Cover art for Peach Kelli Pop showing a woman in a yellow dress with a bulldog on a hilltop above a city.

MusicNew Music Monday: Peach Kelli Pop — Peach Kelli Pop IIIThe tunes on Peach Kelli Pop’s aptly named third record Peach Kelli Pop III are crunchy, low-fi, and (maybe obviously) poppy. Think Ariel Pink meets Blink-182 with a Sailor Moon costume. Tracks like “Princess Castle 1987,” the album’s intro track, features the same fuzzy nerd-pop fans have come to expect from Peach Kelli herself, Allie Hanlon. With releases stretch back to summer of 2011 with her first EP Panchito Blues, Hanlon dances the line between The Runaways and MC Chris, blending nerdcore sentiments with headbanging riffs.Clark Lamson · May 4, 2015