Justin Criado

1 week ago | westword.com | Justin Criado

Big Gigantic just dropped the soundtrack of the summer, and what a way to celebrate the solstice, as the Boulder EDM duo’s new album, Fluorescence, is out today, Friday, June 20. The twelve new tracks from Dominic Lalli and Jeremy Salken take what the two have done best since 2008 — the hypnotic live drums of Salken, Lalli’s silky sax skills — and sprinkle in some fresh dynamics, including jam-laced bass and sun-kissed vocals, courtesy of several collaborators.

1 week ago | westword.com | Justin Criado

Musicians who experiment with that interplay of sound find a sonic equilibrium that transmits tranquility like a siren’s song. It’s a hypnotic hum that tickles the brain just right. Denver post-metal band Circling Over tapped into that, and the members are discovering just how entrancing mixing such subgenres as shoegaze and doom metal can be. Opposites attract, but the exact reasons why that's an accepted fact of life are open to interpretation.

1 week ago | boulderweekly.com | Justin Criado

Courtesy: Big Love Car Wash Hearing Sol Chase talk about how he and his bandmates first discovered they all possess the same sixth sense makes ESP sound plausible.

1 week ago | westword.com | Justin Criado

If the Front Range is the continental crust of Colorado metal music, then Pueblo is the partially molten asthenosphere (that’s the smaller, smoldering layer just below the larger encrustations). Or to put it in plainer, heavy-metal Bill Nye terms — Pueblo is where the state’s underground metal scene is brewing, and it’s on the precipice of erupting. Especially if death-thrashers Panpsychism have anything to do with it.

2 weeks ago | westword.com | Justin Criado

“I’d say, simply put, 98 percent of suffering is self-made,” he says. “All the suffering in my life comes from my perception of how life is relating to me, or how I’m relating to life, and it’s usually a misperception.” Listening to Clay Rose talk through his contemplative life philosophies is informative and unexpectedly soothing. Rose speaks calmy, choosing his words deliberately like a modern-day Dharma bum.