
(Photo via Westword's blog.) Yet another one from the Curious Theatre! Astrophagus 6.13.2009 Westword Music Showcase Curious Theatre, Denver, CO Source: Microtech Gefell M300's > Lunatec V3 (opti-mod) > Toslink > Nomad JB3 > Firewire > Adobe Audition 3.0 > CDWave > LAME > mp3 Taped by: Lance Stack Setlist: 1. unknown 2. Feast Day 3. Buena Vista Park 4. [...]
Astrophagus is a Denver Band. It is pronounced ass-tro-FAY-gus, NOT a-STRAW-fuh-gus. Everyone now- "Ass-tro-FAY-gus". Very good. Astrophagus plays, oh let's call it "experimental indie" music, which is actually better than that genre assignment would have you believe. It's very pretty and kinda sounds like Neutral Milk Hotel. I bet the dudes in Astorphagus really like Neutral Milk Hotel. Am I right, guys? ANNNNDD I'm rambling. Here's the thing- I'm sitting on my front porch, wearing a cowboy hat and writing while listening to the pretty pretty music that Astrophagus serves up on their myspace page, [...]
In a moment of cutting journalistic integrity, Angora Holly Polo suddenly spewed forth factual information from said music fest so as to enlighten the general truthiness of the universe. Here are twelve things, prioritized by coolness, which probably happened at the Westword Music Festival this last Saturday: 12.) Ethan, lead singer of Gangcharger, kept getting electrocuted in the mouth during his set at Sutra. Somehow the mic kept sneakily sending jolts of electricity into his face while he continued to rock in legendary fashion, without Angora Holly Polo's even observing the [...]

Astrophagus formed in a two bedroom apartment in the year 2003. Since then they have occupied various other spaces such as single family dwellings, duplexes, loft apartments, basements of armories, studio apartments, and double wide trailers. They also make songs and they just released a new record For Boating . The guys explain the new album: "For Boating is the story of our last two years. Two years of lost loves, lost jobs, great failures and tiny successes. It is at once a story of defeat and also of triumph. We cope with [...]

astrophagus ATM 2006 (française version) Il était 18 heures. A l'arrêt de bus. L'homme. Cinquantaine. Assis. Les mains jointes. Entre ses cuisses, le corps penché au dessus de l'asphalte. Les mains jointes, il regardait la bordure, sans la voir, du trottoir. Violemment, la main droite poussait sur la gauche qui, à son tour, la repoussait. L'homme bâilla dans un tremblement de mains et de doigts serrés. Mon bus arriva. Je le [...]