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 ...

As it turns out, careers in mystic-scuzz-blues bands don’t come with 401(k) plans. And although the stock market might jerk up and down like an epileptic marionette, all of that stuff must seem pretty ...

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 ...

Derek Stanton's prior band Awesome Color drew primarily from the Stooges and MC5. His new band, Turn to Crime, strips away the massive, spastic guitars of Awesome Color in favor of a sculptural, ...

Dinosaur Jr., Hate Fuck Trio and Awesome Color December 14, 2007 Ogden Theatre Better than: Reading Our Band Could Be Your Life for the tenth time. As I stepped off Colfax Avenue, and into the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...