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Music. Writing. Want to combine both into a handmade totem of sonic awesomeness? We (Radio 1190) are looking for people like you (or you) to contribute your thoughts and brilliant insights and fragmented conjectures—anything you care to fling at us, really—that bears some association with independent music and radio. We always welcome your album reviews, concert reviews, upcoming events, pictures, venue reviews, stories, and more.
We want detail. We want diverse. Your thoughts about a venue could cover the overall experience, or just the bar the lights, the crowd the vibe, the bathrooms, the first time you played there, the car keys you lost there. If you’re at all curious, pony up and email alex@radio1190.org
Black Moth Super Rainbow at the Bluebird
Depending on the location of a performance, a music artist is afforded the ability to create the atmosphere needed to hype a crowd. Sometimes these efforts blow the recorded material away in clarity and force. Secondarily, certain artists know their efforts need to be amplified in order to make an incompatible venue work for their [...]
Read More...Boris at the Bluebird Theater
Work kept me late and I arrived at Bluebird Theatre well after doors. After some haggling for a photo pass, I went inside to hear the last three or four songs of Pallbearer. Pallbearer, a four-piece from Arkansas, can loosely be categorized as doom metal, though they have distinct flourishes of prog rock and psychedelia [...]
Read More...Deerhunter – “Monomania”
With each album you can hear Deerhunter becoming more and more comfortable with the art of recording music. This album seems to take leaps forward with the their unique style of noisy pop soaked in distortion. For those unfamiliar with their previous releases Deerhunter is a band from Atlanta, Georgia fronted by Bradford Cox. They [...]
Read More...METZ at the Hi-Dive
Unlike the historic garden city located near the French border that shares its name there is nothing peaceful or quiet about the three-piece band known as METZ. Hailing from that noise-rock Shangri-La also known as Toronto, Canada (a city that also boasts hometown status to recent indie rock heroes Japandroids) the band graced Denver with [...]
Read More...The Black Angels at the Boulder Theater
On a recent Friday night at the Boulder Theatre, I was able to join several members of Radio 1190 in an evening with Wall of Death, Hanni El Khatib, and The Black Angels. And what an evening it was. The first act was Wall of Death, a French psyche-rock trio that offers a solid sound [...]
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