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@tommurphy25.bsky.social

Writer, musician, itinerant filmmaker

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Queen City Sounds Podcast S5E31: Ches Smith Ches Smith’s Clone Row, photo courtesy the artists Ches Smith is a drummer, percussionist and composer originally from California and now based out of New York. His career as a musician has b…
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Eric Angelo Bessel’s Ambient Single “Scavengers” is an Enigmatic and Haunted Evocation of the Mysteries of Hidden Depths Eric Angelo Bessel, photo courtesy the artist Eric Angelo Bessel is half of Portland, Oregon-based, ambient post-punk experimenters Lore City. With solo work the sound palette is more abstract and …
07.10.2025 05:19 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Queen City Sounds Podcast S5E30: Shonen Knife Shonen Knife, photo by Tomoko Ota Shonen Knife is a pioneering Japanese punk band that started out in Osaka in 1981 inspired by the kind of music that influenced the Ramones like 60s girl groups an…
07.10.2025 04:37 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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King-Mob’s Industrial Post-Punk Single “Buddha Tombing” is Like the Menacing Soundtrack to a David Fincher Thriller King-Mob, photo courtesy the artists King-Mob’s single “Buddha Tombing” started off as music for a short film and composed of experiments with an AKAI S900 sampler. But what has evolved from that s…
06.10.2025 04:54 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Queen City Sounds Podcast S5E29: In the Company of Serpents In the Company of Serpents, photo by Tom Murphy In the Company of Serpents began as a kind of doom band in early 2011 and its first few releases were crushing, heavy affairs that set the group apar…
06.10.2025 03:22 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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“Let Go/Ascent” by SOHN is the Sound of Both Cosmic Horror and Existential Transcendence SOHN, photo courtesy the artist “Let Go/Ascent” by SOHN is almost iterative in its slow flowing, evolving harmonics and melodic pulses as the track goes from distant and dusky to bright and present…
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The Analog Detail of loverghost’s “sweet tooth” Render’s Lends Deeply Vulnerable Love Song a Cozy Intimacy loverghost, photo courtesy the artists For the recording and music video for “sweet tooth,” Virginia Beach’s art pop band loverghost undertook meticulous, even granular, execution of production to …
06.10.2025 01:56 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Queen City Sounds Podcast S5E28: Melodies Never Lie Melodies Never Lie, photo by Tom Murphy Melodies Never Lie is the solo project of Isaac Rivera. The musician/songwriter grew up in Denver and in the 2000s Rivera was part of the more left field end…
05.10.2025 06:16 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Kramies’ Psychedelic, Orchestral Pop Single “Hollywood Signs” is a Trip From Haunted Headspaces to Tranquil Accceptance Kramies, photo by Derek Lajoie Kramies’ lead single from the forthcoming new album Goodbye Dreampop Troubadour (out October 10, 2025) “Hollywood Signs” emerges as almost a musical avatar of the his…
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Ana Hausmann’s “nausea-stalgia” is an Organic Ambient Articulation of the Dark Mysteries of Nighttime Streets Ana Hausmann, photo courtesy the artist In the organically immersive flow of Ana Hausmann’s “nausea-stalgia” one hears not just intermittent textures like hearing the detritus in the breeze of nigh…
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Best Shows in Denver and Beyond October 2025 Wednesday performs at The Gothic Theatre October 23 , photo by Martina Gonzalez Bertello Modest Mouse, photo courtesy the artists Wednesday | 10.01What: Modest Mouse w/Built to SpillWhen: 7Where: M…
02.10.2025 04:51 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Ana Hausmann’s “nausea-stalgia” is an Organic Ambient Articulation of the Dark Mysteries of Nighttime Streets Ana Hausmann, photo courtesy the artist In the organically immersive flow of Ana Hausmann’s “nausea-stalgia” one hears not just intermittent textures like hearing the detritus in the breeze of nigh…
02.10.2025 04:50 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Blankslate’s Exuberantly Affectionate “Nov. 16 (Paper Ducks)” is a Riotous Declaration of Love Blankslate, photo courtesy the artists Blankslate’s curiously titled “Nov. 16 (Paper Ducks)” is an unconventional love song, a riotous declaration of affection and devotion worded in endearingly id…
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Also Zach Bauer is in the band. In addition to doing sound for places. He was in The Outer Neon, Zombie Zombie (I think), Wicked Phoenix...all kinds of stuff. Secretly he's also a great pop songwriter.

26.09.2025 03:20 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Yeah, Andrew Lindstrom was in all kinds of bands including Git Some for a bit, Nightshark (even now, they're back), maybe you saw Witch Doctor and way back I saw him in a band called The Clap that opened for Lydia Lunch at the Lion's Lair.

26.09.2025 03:18 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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The Brits have such a way with words. You know. Those things with letter that help you define and say stuff about things.

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They were called something else for awhile but now they're called Future Days. They usually play at Mutiny once in a great while but their next show is at the Hi-Dive on 10/19 opening for Mdou Moctar's rhythm section called Takaat.

26.09.2025 03:13 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Yeah, I know the people in the band, even.

26.09.2025 03:12 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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The Pastoral Grandeur of Dustin O’Halloran’s Minimal Piano Piece “Gold” is an Expression of the Mind Free of the Pressure of Mediated Life Dustin O’Halloran, photo courtesy the artist “Gold” was recorded in one take by Dustin O’Halloran in his studio in Reykjavik, Iceland. The member of A Winged Victory for the Sullen captured t…
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Dag och Natt Leans Into the Acceptance of Impermanence and the Healing Properties of Emotional Drift With Dream Pop Single “Tunis” Dag och Natt, photo by Henrik Mårtensson Almegård The long form travel travel video for “Tunis” by Swedish dream pop band Dag och Natt with the hazy images layered upon each other in moments and th…
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Queen City Sounds Podcast S5E27: Rebecca Pidgeon Rebecca Pidgeon, photo by Banner Gwin Rebecca Pidgeon is songwriter, guitarist, singer and actress who released her twelfth album Unillusion on August 29, 2025 via Toy Canteen Records. Pidgeon’s mo…
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Queen City Sounds Podcast S5E26: Janet Feder Fred Frith and Janet Feder, photo courtesy the artists Janet Feder is considered one of the world’s most inventive and innovative guitarists and she has been a fixture of Denver’s local avant-garde…
15.09.2025 01:59 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Smokey Brights’ “Peace Sign Pentagram” is a Fuzzy Power Pop Anthem to Making One’s Unfulfilled Rock and Roll Dreams Come True Smokey Brights, photo by Jake Hanson “Peace Sign Pentagram,” the title, before you hear a note actually does deliver on the imagery. It’s a gritty, grungy, melodic hard rock song like something you…

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15.09.2025 01:58 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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“Lost & Burnt” by Legends of the Seven Golden Vampires is Hypnotic, Noir-Inflected Downtempo “Lost & Burnt” by Legends of the Seven Golden Vampires with its echoing vocals from Ilsa Van Der Linden and loping, lurking rhythms sounds like a downtempo track from a neo-noir film set in the…
13.09.2025 18:33 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Patrick Shiroishi’s Ambient Jazz Piece “There is no moment in my life in which this is not happening” is a Meditation on the Ongoing, Daily Impact of the Legacy of Racism and Colonialism Patrick Shiroishi, photo courtesy the artist Patrick Shiroishi’s forthcoming new album Forgetting is Violent (out September 19, 2025 on vinyl, for download and streaming via American Dreams) promis…
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Origami Ghosts Travel Through the Ephemeral Charms of Digital Life to the Human Yearning for Analog Connection on Psychedelic Pop Single “Virtual Reality Boy” Origami Ghosts, photo by Brittne Lunniss Origami Ghosts’ “Virtual Reality Boy” is musically reminiscent of something from the 2000s before indie rock and pop became too much of a genre branding exe…
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Pynch Speaks Eloquently to the Anxiety of an Era of Endless Choices on Genre Eclectic Single “Post-Punk/New-Wave” Pynch, photo courtesy the artists London-based post-punk band Pynch will release its new album Beautiful Noise October 3, 2025 on vinyl, digital download and streaming. Its lead singles promise som…
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“Tarha” is Bombino’s Uplifting, Tuareg Guitar Folk Tribute to Love, Friendship and the Beautiful Tranquility of the Desert Bombino, image courtesy the artist “Tarha” came about when Greatg Big Warm House invited Grammy nominated Tuareg artist Bombino into their space Villa Lala in Vienna to record. It’s a song about lo…

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The Picture Tour Debuts Video For Shoegaze Noir Single “Nobody Cruises Anymore” The Picture Tour is releasing its new album Blood. Machine. Gasoline. in late October 2025. Fronted by guitarist Billy Armijo The Picture Tour’s gritty psychedelia fuses dark melodies with an urgen…
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Madeline Goldstein’s Darkwave Synth Pop Single “Apogee” is a Deeply Evocative Song About Embracing the Energy of Complicated Feelings Madeline Goldstein, photo by Aleckz Picha “Apogee” is the second single from Madeline Goldstein’s forthcoming full-length album set for release in fall 2025. It is the first and only co-written son…
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