New music being released in Denver this week includes a marriage of shoegaze and hip-hop, noisy blues rock, a 1981 live set of post punk, lo-fi indie instrumentals, and soul-infused rock and roll.

On the night of its Tuesday album release, Alabama-born, Philadelphia-raised Waxahatchee brought a new breed of intimate punk to Black Cat. Waxahatchee, the newest indie-music incarnation of lo-fi ...

The staggering gamut of cred Lou Barlow boasts in the hardcore, post-punk, lo-fi and indie rock realms toes past the line of the ridiculous and the legendary. In the early ’80s, Barlow obliterated his ...

Punk has always been about refusal. The Bowery art-scum, L.A.-glam burnouts, and British street punks that collectively defined the OG wave were all rejecting the cornball excesses (and masturbatory ...

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