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 ...

Combining their love of the blues with garage-punk stalwarts like the Stooges has served the Brooklyn trio of Awesome Color well for their two previous albums. There is no denying that they do bluesy ...

Awesome Color, which shares this bill with Eyes and Ears and Outer Neon, records for Sonic Youth maestro Thurston Moore’s Ecstatic Peace Records — and if the imprint’s moniker were spelled just a ...

Vice: I heard there was some sort of weirdness with your signing to Ecstatic Peace. What happened with that? Derek Stanton (vocals, guitar): We got a myspace from Thurston Moore—we thought it was a ...

One of the worst parts of last year was losing Ron Asheton, The Stooges’ voodoo guitar king, the six-string conjurer who could wring a thunderous sonic squall from his instrument that impossibly and ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...