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 ...

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 ...

Awesome Color are a band from Brooklyn signed to the Ecstatic Peace label, which is run by Sonic Youth's Thurston Moore. This knowledge seemed to guarantee we were in for an evening of ...

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 ...

With one song, this Brooklyn band lived up to their Stooges and MC5 comparisons if not in quality or novelty at least in musical style and bombast. But they ve also borrowed their forbearers ...