HEALTH returns to NYC on Saturday, June 20th for a New York Night Train show in Brooklyn – possibly at Danbro Studios, and possibly somewhere else (stay tuned). Other bands on the bill are Awesome ...

In a year stacked with smoking shred, Electric Aborigines remains largely unheralded. Which is a strange thing, given that Awesome Color is on the Ecstatic Peace label, lorded over by Sonic Youth ax ...

This Michigan-to-Brooklyn trio seems more like a sound statement than an actual band. Picked up by Thurston Moore’s Ecstatic Peace label, Awesome Color often sports vivid splashes of pink, yellow, and ...

As it turns out, careers in mystic-scuzz-blues bands don’t come with 401(k) plans. And although the stock market might jerk up and down like an epileptic marionette, all of that stuff must seem pretty ...

Life really isn’t this precious thing that needs all kinds of coddling and massaging. It doesn’t need the precise movements and advancements on it that we sometimes think it does. We don’t need to ...

A solar system away from household-name status, but spoken of through beaming smiles by those who’ve seen them sweat it up live, Detroit trio Awesome Color owe much of their exposure to [a]Sonic Youth ...

Calling something "derivative" isn't necessarily a knock. Lots of bands are derivative in ways that expand the sound they're copping. For me there's a simple test to decide if an album is inspired ...

Despite looking like members of a new age cult with their bright outfits and headbands, the members of Awesome Color deliver fiercely robust rock n roll. Co-produced by Thurston Moore, the band s ...

The latest release from this Brooklyn power trio starts off on a promising note, with blasts of feedback, frantic rhythms and strong grooves, but it hits a handful of uneven spots as the album ...