Of all the Area Codes we've done so far, Denver is the biggest city, so it's probably not a surprise that it has one of the richer histories of anything in the series. Before the jam band craze of…   Read Story »

Haze-pop producers of the world unite! Montreal up-and-comer Grimes has done her own version of "Real Is A Feeling," a song from Denver noise-dancer Pictureplane's strong 2011 album Thee Physical.…   Read Story »

Denver noise-dance producer Pictureplane is gearing up to release Dimensional Rip 7: Thee Physical Remixes, a collection of remixes of tracks from his Thee Physical album. The free online release…   Read Story »

Travis Egedy just premiered the official video for "Negative Slave" over at plainpictures.blogspot.com. He says he wanted to create a "lifestyle video ... sort of like a rap video, that just is a…   Read Story »

When writing about "Post Physical" from BTW Pictureplane's great new album Thee Physical, I noted Travis Egedy has a knack for "mixing unexpected styles and noisy/smooth cross-genre sounds to create…   Read Story »

Travis Egedy has released one of our favorite albums of the year so far. Thanks to his generosity, though, you can (and should) investigate Thee Physical's genre-splicing sensual dance charm…   Read Story »

How did you celebrate July 4th? On a rooftop BBQ listening to our summer mix? Maybe you stayed in and watched old episodes of Hoarders on Roku? Maybe I stayed in and did that. There is no way to…   Read Story »

Here's the sequel to last year's popular heartbreak of a mixtape, Cruel Summer. That one was worn, forlorn, and sexual, it was the soundtrack arc to your winter romance burning up and melting in the…   Read Story »

We still have plenty of time and music left in 2011, but since we're at the halfway (or so) mark, we thought it made sense to pause and take stock of the best albums of the year so far. There was…   Read Story »

Travis Egedy, aka 2009 BTW Pictureplane, has an amazing way of ambitiously mixing unexpected styles and noisy/smooth cross-genre sounds to create some of the most effortlessly catchy (and…   Read Story »