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 ...
A band that looks as youthfully innocent as Awesome Color shouldn’t be capable of making such convincingly grizzled rock, but good Midwestern genes and a steady diet of Stooges records can apparently ...
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 ...
Despite looking like members of a new age cult with their bright outfits and headbands, the members of Awesome Color deliver fiercely robus ...