By Logan Normandeau On August 8th, the lizards, wizards, yuppies and born-too-late wannabe deadheads crawled out to Ford Amphitheater to see the King Gizzard perform yet again in Colorado. They have played multiple years at Red Rocks, usually in a two or three show run, which only further grew their swarm of dedicated followers. The group is known for being prolific with their album releases and their tours. Each year they seem to continue to branch out and find more creative ways to perform, and this year they played with the full Colorado Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Sarah Hicks. While Ford Amphitheater isn't exactly as picturesque as Red Rocks (the view of i25 and the Air Force is a distinctly Colorado Springs touch), the ability for them to play with…
billy woods with PremRock // Marquis Theater // June 5, 2025 photos by Logan Normandeau & Sadie Almgren listen to GOLLIWOG https://open.spotify.com/album/6YjoANrjcsf17p1OmWESfo?si=10fer0sYSQ2UzNB2qpmBSQ
2024 brought us one of the best years in music in recent memory, providing an insurmountable amount of high quality music. In fact, according to MusicRadar, more music was being released in a single day in 2024 than the entirety of 1989. Given this immense wealth, a few of your favorite SOCC members plucked a few from the pile, just for YOU! Here are our favorite albums of 2024. - Issa Nasatir The New Sound & Diamond Jubilee by Geordie Greep & Cindy Lee Not to be THAT PERSON on the socc 2024 aoty blog post, but I sincerely couldn’t pick just one, as 2024 has been a year of such sonic abundance, I am presenting a tie between Geordie Greep’s The New Sound and Cindy Lee’s Diamond Jubilee. These…
By Logan Normandeau Growing Pains at the Shredder in Boise Forever ago, I sat down with Oregon band Growing Pains to talk about their music, inspirations, and friendship. The band consists of Carl (guitar and vocals), Kalia (bass and main vocals), Jack (guitar and vocals), and Kyle (drums). Throughout the many years they’ve spent playing shows in Eugene and Portland, touring across the west coast, and creating together, they have fun. And their fun is contagious. Growing Pains has an electric and captivating stage presence, no matter the venue. Having opened for major artists such as Franz Ferdinand and Beabadoobee, and with 15k monthly Spotify listeners, Growing Pains is slowly reaching a new height–and never losing sight of their DIY beginnings. They continue to be supported by a huge base…
by Logan Normandeau (they/them) My recent deepdive into the world of triphop was sparked by summer boredom and my love of 90s animation and music. More specifically: the incredible soundtrack of MTV's animated show Downtown. The tracks were heavily triphop centric, and the score created by Kimson Albert was full of industrial breakbeats and synth that perfectly matched the grime of the show1. Until this point, I've always been fairly turned off by triphop, seeing it as one of the worst outcomes of the 90s music trends—I don't tend to like electronic music, and I greatly preferred every other genre it borrows from. (And some songs sound creepily like sonic realizations of the visuals of the early Windows operating system and my hazy memories of the public library trips I…
