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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...