After Blue Angels, I went upstairs and check out some of the great Larimer Lounge men's room graffiti, got caught up on the latest in the life of Denver's rocker's. I came back downstairs to the sound of the room taking off. This was Side-Fi Noise. And while the band started its set with a spacy, noise jam, it quickly came back to earth, hitting fast, at times funky, riffs, that caused a couple of people to shake their asses. Sounding like an unholy union between ZZ Top and, say, Tortoise, the band pushed through each song with an almost punishing abandon. However, the Side-Fi Noise was still more than that, and yet relied on so little. Simple, but still entertaining, the band was anchored by the interplay of it's rhythm section, with the guitar helping to put extra drive into the songs and fill the void where vocals might reside. A band definitely worth checking out right now, Side-Fi Noise (soon to be Portamento) is on its way to being something real good.

-- Jeremy Brashaw

Check out the rest of the review here: http://blogs.westword.com/backbeat/2008/01/last_night_pena_sidefi_noise_b.php