Member Since: 11/23/2005
Band Website: allneedismusic.com
Band Members: Tom Murphy - writer, interviewer, photographer, transcriptionist, layout and editorguest writers to be announced
Influences: Everything that happened in the underground music scene in Denver...(if you don't see your band's name, kindly let us know and don't get offended...if you're from Denver you should have sense enough to know that most people have probably never heard of you and that a list this huge is going to have some ommissions due to ignorance and the memory not kicking into full gear all the time--thanks)For example (some of these overlap eras)...70's and beyond: Rok Tots, The Varve, Tommy Bolin, The Ravers (the band for which Jello Biafra used to roadie before moving to San Francisco), Aviators, The Cells, Corvairs, Crank Call Love Affair, Dancing Assholes, Defex, The Front, The Gluons, The Guys, The Infants, Joey Vain & The Scissors, The Mutilators, The Nightflames, The Transistors, The Violators, Young Weasels and Jonny III.80s: Twice Wilted, Warlock Pinchers, The Fluid, Pagan Cowboys, Human Head Transplant, Big Head Todd and the Monsters, The Trees, Peace Corps, Happy World, Frantix, Pavilion Steps, Jux County, Bloodflower, Urban Leash (featuring John Rumley?!), The Decemberists, Mau Mau 55, Tone Thugs, The Rumble, Ante Bellum, Dick and the Chicks, Architect's Office, End of Story, Big LF, Church and State, The Electric Third Rail, Dead Silence, Black Sky, Uberfall, Bruce Odland's Big Band, Children of Denial, Boi, Beat Dudes, Computer Class, Alarming Trends, Bum Kon, Dietplan, Jinx Jones & Friends, Chelsea Girls, Bop Street, XEQ, Cowtown, Jag Panzer, The Front, The Mechanics, Walls of Genius, Soul Merchants, The 40th Day, The Denver Gentlemen and others.90s: Tarmints, Space Team Electra, The Czars, 16 Horsepower, Gladhand, Worm Trouble, Poison Bone, Alcoholocaust, Transmission, Fast Action Revolver, Down N Outs, Dressy Bessy, The Apples in Stereo, The Maybellines, Maraca 5-0, Tarantella, Sympathy F, Acrobat Down, Crestfallen, Planes Mistaken for Stars, Volplane, Pteranodon, Spell, Rainbow Sugar, Friends Forever, Superbuick, The LaDonnas, The GEDs, Pin Downs, Blast Off Heads, Sarina Simoom, The Bedraggled, Devotchka, The Christines, Skullflux, Slim Cessna's Auto Club, Cynic's Bane, Lord of Word and the Disciples of Bass, Breezy Porticos, Five Iron Frenzy, Orbit Service, Neil Satterfield, Seraphim Shock, Hemi Cuda, Twilight Motel, Gina Go Faster, Prescription, The Swanks, The Otter Popps (now Grease Machine), Red Yak, Throat Culture (now Thro*Cult), The Fairlanes, Cephalic Carnage, Bio Bitch, Apostle, Page 27, Noise Between Stations, Carbon Dioxide Orchestra, S-Fro-7, St. Andre, Christie Front Drive, The Reejers, Grimace, Abdomen, Cold Crank, Idlemind, Baldo Rex, Angel hair, The VSS, Fea, Half-Burnt Match, Foreskin 500, Fiction 8, The Shrinking Violets, Kingdom, Filty McNasty, Pinhead Circus, Munly, The Hellmen, King Rat, Hoochie, 8 Bucks Experiment, Hate Fuck Trio, Body of Souls, Sin Desires Marie, Messy Hairs, Scott Baio Army, Catheter, In Ether, Perry Weissman 3, Emergence, Small Dog Frenzy, Clusterfux, '57 Lesbian, Thank God for Astronauts (aka Kudzu Towers), Cool Rays, The Emmas, Hypnogogic Orchestra, The Facet, The Foggy Mountain Fuckers, The Mansfields, The Mighty Rime, The Cigarette After, Five Day Messiah, Esperanto, Magma Trio, Phantom Trigger, The Siren Project, Nina Storey, All, Sista D, Pinhead Circus, Ground Zero Movement, Little Fyodor & Babushka, Dropskots, Hobbledehoy, The Fifth Utility, LS Diesel, The Dinnermints, Sal 3 Fold, Fatwater, Mary Beth Abella, Eleven 2 Go, Choosy Mothers, Register, Debaser, Double Plus Down, Colemesis, Man Alive!, Rachel Pollard, Reno Divorce, Vaux (formerly Eiffel), Debaser, Speedholes and others.00s: Bright Channel, Catatonic Lydia, Supply Boy, Melissa Ivey, The Symptoms, Pinkku, Caustic Soul, The Wind-Up Merchants, The Skivies, 907, Red Cloud [West], Ghost Buffalo, Out on Bail, Eyes Caught Fire, Nightingale, Sun Is Risen, Core of the Earth, New Ancient Astronauts, Orbiting Nubs, Action Friend, Lotus Black, Rabid Ragdolls, Hate Kate (aka The Vestals), Self-Service, Lyin' Bitch & The Restraining Orders, The Oblique Addict, Monofog, Ready Machete, Ultra Boyz, Tripp Nasty Orchestra, Zombie Zombie, Voices Underwater, Bad Weather California (aka Love Letter Band), Clotheshorse (aka The Little Heads), DJ Sara T, Drop the Fear, Matson Jones, George & Caplin, The Sleepers, Log, Absolute Zeros, Dark Orchid, eROTic, Le Boom (aka Doozer), Landlord Land, Tin Tin, Fisher Mystic, Jet Set Kate, Facade, Everything Absent or Distorted, Josh Taylor's Friends Forever, Striking Distance (CO), Three Lines of Blur, Crack Owl, Assfault, The Risk, Bambi Lee Savage, What Tribe, The Lavellas, Black Black Ocean, Constellations, Etherglow, The Situation, Tongue Noir, Navy Girls, Nippon Cha Cha Cha, Potato Farmers, Cowboy Curse, The Hot House, Stoli & The Beers, The Way Things Go, Other People's Children, Bobby Collins Death Metal Armada, Blackcell, Kuxaan Sum, Reverend Dead Eye, Boy Howdy, School of Floating, The Green Line, D. Biddle, The Hot IQs (aka The Royal We), Scumbag Family Dinner, This Work of Fire, Anger Throne, Ancient Mith, Treble Kicker, Optik Fusion Embrace, The Swayback, Apocalyptic Christ, John Common, cdatakill, Insider Spider, Frank Lee Scarlet, Otion, The Frail, Sons of Armageddon, Born in the Flood, Abracastabya, Strangers Die Every Day, Cowhause, The Greatest Hits, Oblio Duo, The Munjers, The Milkshakes, Streamlined, Denyed, Ruby Liquid, Gravity Index, Panic in the Year Zero, More Than Human, Zach the Country Wonder, My Sister Outlaw, The Omens, Project 12:01, Against Tomorrow's Sky, Breathing Eve, Black Pegasus, Big Green Lime, Stargazer, Coyote Poets of the Universe, Painted Saints, Woven Hand, Drag the River, Ten Feet Tall, Denunzio, 34 Satellite, Ian Cooke, Adrenaline Sky, Aberrant, Kallisti, Barstool Messiah, Machine Gun Blues, American Relay, DisBrakes,The Speeks, The Clap, Ghost Light, Red Headed Yetis, Presidents' Wives, Cindy Wonderful, 4130, Roger Green, Porlolo, A Dog Paloma, Die Pilot, John Common, Mark Darling, Hobbs NM, Erin Roberts, Gann Mathews, Greg Urman, Red Glow Aviator, Ovni, Rabbit Fight, The Sons of Salem, Mannequin Makeout, The Flashbangs, The Black Lamb, Audio Dream Sister, Unloader, Transistor Radio Sound, Hunter Dragon, The Photo Atlas, Cat-A-Tac, Von Skinny, Bad Wolf, Ginkins, Pariah Caste, Call Sign Cobra, As Seen on TV, My Calculus Beats Your Algebra, Pretty Thigh, Colder Than Fargo, Red Orange Yellow, Time And Awareness, Pentalith, Mr. Pacman, Joshua Novak, Painted Saints, Bad Luck City, Magic 8, The Allergies, Rabbit Fight, Stab! Heart! Kiss! Kill!, Deviant, Analogue, Team Awesome, Jeff Suthers, Ross Etherton, Under the Eaves, April Morning Massacre, Astrohot Astronaut, The Things They Carry, Robot Mandala, Tornado Alley, Quadramess, The Horace Van Vaughn, Kingdom of Magic, Team Awesome, Bandit, Lion Sized, April Morning Massacre, Midcentury, Doo Crowder, Pee Pee, Uphollow, Witch Doctor, Twinein, The Wind Past the Breakers, White Dynamite, Sparkles, Pena, Colonial Excess, Fucking Orange, Odam Fei Mud, Vulpes, Crash Orchid, Januar, City of Yes and No, Danger Girl, Autonomous Collective and others.
Sounds Like: Or rather reads like...Lester Bangs without quite that same degree of iconoclasm, Greil Marcus without quite as much scholarly erudition and Jack Rabid but without the outright encyclopedic knowledge of music he possesses in that head of his.
Type of Label: Indie