Wax Trax Records' blog with news from our little block in the city and the music our staff are into right now.
By Simone Fohrman If you’ve been digging into the Denver music scene you’ve most likely heard The New Country Sounds of Ryan Wong, released in May. In my ear it's a perfect clash of the punk attitude with a gentle folk expression, and a good fit for Denver--a reconstruction of the music historically associated with... Continue Reading →
New Album Review: Diamanda Galas: You Must Be Certain of the Devil LP (Restless/US/1988) This is the final installment in Diamanda Galas's "Masque of the Red Death Plague," a trilogy dealing, at least partly, with her brother's death from AIDS. I say partly because Galas's extraordinary handling of this material does what all great art... Continue Reading →
Review by Duane Davis, October 2023 Listening to the new Quits album "Feeling it," recently released by the reliably noisy Sleeping Giant Glossolalia label, felt a little like being dropped into a lost chapter of Hubert Selby's Last Exit To Brooklyn. There's a dense claustrophobia, a feeling of walls closing in, of impending violence, of... Continue Reading →
Review by Duane Davis The history of loving someone is necessarily going to be a history of sorrow: it's as true as death and taxes: nothing lasts, not love, not life, not you, not me. The veteran Denver four-piece Super Bummer just released a collection of 11 lovely and loving songs that, each and every... Continue Reading →
By Duane Davis After 40 years as one of the co-owners of Wax Trax, I am occasionally asked what the secret might be to keeping a business open that long. My answer has always been simple and unequivocal: go into business with a workaholic. Which is exactly what I did when I went into business... Continue Reading →
Review by Duane Davis Uh Oh! I know what you're thinking: 'New Country Sounds'! Merle Haggard with an iPhone and a White claw? Gram Parsons on a yoga mat busting out a Supine Pigeon Pose?? Another Millennial cowboy trying to Waltz Across Brooklyn??? Nope. What we have is a fine set of folk inflected C&W... Continue Reading →
Sundays on 13th is a gathering of micro businesses, artists, musicians, and others that gather every Sunday along 13th Avenue to sell their wares and play/hear some great local music. This article features just one of the many excellent folks who participate. Wulf Apple is Sarah Eason. As a kid, Sarah loved dolls and... Continue Reading →
By Simone Fohrman Hannah Alexander AKA Sybil Attack struck a chord on a Saturday earlier this summer at one of the most captivating shows I’ve seen this year. Hundreds of Denverites poured into the city’s newest DIY space, previously known as the Evan’s School. The building, built in 1904, was silhouetted against the moonlit sky,... Continue Reading →
By: Simone Fohrman On a recent Saturday eve in March over at the D3 Arts Center, Denver’s own Water on the Thirsty Ground launched their new album “Exploding Head Syndrome” with a raucous show. The D3 is rapidly becoming one of the city’s most vibrant DIY venues, and on this night it was overflowing with... Continue Reading →
Jason- Faust - Faust IV "I worked at Tower Records in 1992 in San Fran and we had the Faust IV CD on a Caroline blue plate reissue. I had little spending money at the time but this was a record I felt like taking a chance on. A great move. It cost me financially to maybe... Continue Reading →