Breathe Carolina gets NYT nod, Suburban Home turns 16, and more
Our music scene is a busy place with lots happening. If you don’t obsessively visit the local blogs, alt-weeklies, and other outlets, you could miss something important! That’s okay—we’re here to help with a weekly roundup of some of the more enticing news happening around town.
• Breathe Carolina released Hell Is What You Make It over the summer, but just this week the band got a really nice, if totally unexpected, nod from The New York Times. In what seems to be a slightly backhanded compliment, the paper calls the album “one of the year’s best pure pop albums, even if that’s an increasingly meaningless designation.” Way to go?
• Suburban Home Records is celebrating its Sweet 16 this weekend at 3 Kings Tavern, and yesterday announced an official preshow pregame for Saturday. The Suburban Home crew will host a “hangover brunch” at the Lobby, followed by a bike tour of local breweries before ending at Illegal Pete’s for an eat-and-greet/acoustic set with Joey Briggs and company. And then the anniversary party starts.
• Diamond Boiz are keeping busy with a new YouTube series, Death By Ego. The mini-documentary follows the Boiz into their home recording studio and includes plenty of long, nostalgic shots of Southwest Denver and at least one conversation about chicken noodle soup. The latest episode features Mane Rok and Dyalekt working on the recently released Santanamation, a Carlos Santana tribute EP available now as a free download over on Bandcamp.
• What’s a week in local music without some new and eerie videos? The inexplicable Tollund Men released “Goodbye Horses,” a Silence Of The Lambs-ish visual delve into early industrial weirdness. Similarly disturbing, The Saints posted a video for their newest single “Dark Country.” See: animated black silhouettes on a red background and creepy robot dancing. Also this week, Murder Of Crows’ eyeliner-heavy video for “Hiding” showed up on Vimeo; the black and white reel is set in an archetypal dusty field with lots and lots of sinister-looking smoke in the background. Darkness does indeed come in many forms.
