Show Review:
Crimson C - Seattle, WA
April 24, 2008

Last Thursday I showed up to Midtempo Madness at the new Pioneer Square nightclub Crimson C at 10PM, my normal time of arrival, being the total nerd of the club scene and all. I fully expected to, like usual, be the first one on the dance floor and get the party going. Pushing my way past the smokers outside to the heart of the club, I realized that this party didn't need me to get it going- the dance floor was already packed! It had started like wildfire with NoiseMaker on the decks and this was no ease-into-it night: to my thrill, everyone was getting down. My purpose in life is to get people to get down, on the dance floor or otherwise, but this crowd, with a stellar female presence, needed no help from me at all. The sheer excitement for the lineup had everyone buzzing and smiling and dancing, club nerd one and all.
Shilo Urban
Written for CultureMob.com

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Show Review:
Slims - San Francisco, CA
Feb 28, 2008

The SOMA neighborhood of San Francisco hosts a multitude of warehouse clubs, bars and party spaces that tend to go unnoticed by those who wander the streets during the day. But, when the sun goes down and the lights start to flicker, the area comes alive to a wide range of events that often run till morning. On this evening, Slim's was hustling and bustling with a long line of fans, friends and partiers forming down the block to experience an eclectic evening featuring a movie premier, DJs and San Francisco's hottest emerging livetronica talent, BLVD.
Nick Boeka
Jambase
www.Jambase.com

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Steamboat Springs, CO
Feb. 2, 2008

A Major Talent from Steamboat Springs will be returning home with a few friends this weekend (Sat Feb 2nd as MC Souleye and BLVD take the stage at Mahogany Ridge for a world class dance party.
David Caddell
The Local - Noise you need

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Missoula, MT
May 2007

Music can't make you into a super suave secret agent. But BLVD can sure make you feel like one.
A trio from San Francisco, Calif, BLVD plays slick electro-rock - groovy guitar licks and steady drumming served on a bed of funked up syncopated bass lines. This glitchy high energy house music could just as easily fuel a parkourdrenched chase scene as an all-eyes-on-you strut from one end of the club to the other.
On their album, Before We See the Sun, BLVD splits their sound between dirtier rock tracks - still heavily indebted to electronics - and glassy discotheque fodder. Live, they tend more toward the latter sound, dulling the higher faculties into submission with a neck-stretching Zoolander vibe that reaches down to the brain's mammalian stations. On BLVD's current tour, however, Colorado's MC Souleye aims to re-engage the cerebellum with freestyle rhymes that he'll be adding to the mix on the spur of the moment.
So whether a secret agent glide or jungle boogie, BLVD delivers a soundtrack for stylish existence.
Jason Wiener
Missoula Independent - Style Track

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"Burning Up The Breaks"
June 8, 2007

The last time Steamboat Springs fans looked into the lyrical vision of Souleye, the freestyle rapper was laying down rhymes on top of jazz and funk.
This time around, Souleye is rhyming with a different kind of sound that is guaranteed to get the Mahogany Ridge music scene strutting Saturday night.
"We play live house and breaks - it's live, dance-driven electronica," said Dylan McIntosh of BLVD, a three-person band that has played across the West since 2002. "That's what we strive for in our shows, is to make sure everybody is getting down."
Mike Lawrence
Steamboat Pilot
www.SteamboatPilot.com

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"Oddballers"
Jan. 3, 2007

It's almost 2 a.m. on a recent Wednesday night and the crowd at Mighty has distilled down to the hardcores. A holiday party for a local culture Web site has drawn a schizo smattering of dress styles, musical preferences, and income brackets that ebbs and flows as the evening turns. The tucked-in, after-work crowd was injected with a fashionista vibe early on, which took on a weird, scruffy Burning Man flavor around midnight. By now, jerking to bass-heavy house rhythms and twirling in front of the speaker stacks, the only ones left are the enraptured dancers from each contingent. That's exactly how BLVD, the band onstage that's moving the room, likes it.
Jonathan Zwickel
SF Weekly
www.SFWeekly.com

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"MC Souleye pens lyrics"
Oct. 12, 2007

After two years of making up his lyrics on the fly, self-styled "conscious wordsmith" and Steamboat semi-resident MC Souleye is going back to write down his rhymes.
For his Saturday show at Mahogany Ridge Brewery and Grill, Souleye (or Mario Treadway) will perform cuts from his upcoming CD, "Balance in Babylon."
Dylan McIntosh, who plays drums for the electronica troupe BLVD and is producing Souleye’s new album, said having rap as part of the band was a natural fit for its beat-heavy music.
Steamboat Pilot
www.SteamboatPilot.com

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"Medicine Man"
February 24, 2005

With South Florida as a home base, Treadway has traveled up and down the Eastern seaboard, hooking up with a cypher of bohemian rhymers from New England called the Transcendental Alliance. The crew existed like b-boy drifters, taking coin-toss road trips they called pilgrimages, filling up notebooks with rhymes in college coffeehouses, crashing all-night rap sessions in studio basements, sleeping on kitchen floors and in friends' foyers.
Makkada Selah
New Times Palm Beach