Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... During high school in the early 2000s, Fort Collins’ Ryan Hover came across a sound that changed his opinion on music. “I started getting into the Elephant 6 ...

After three acclaimed albums with hazy sunshine pop group Candy Claws, Karen and Ryan Hover have now formed a new project, Sound of Ceres. For it, they’ve enlisted Robert Schneider, Ben Phelan and ...

Karen and Ryan Hover are the married duo behind Fort Collins band Sound of Ceres. They recorded three synth-pop albums as Candy Claws before venturing into ethereal space-rock territory with their new ...

Last year, Candy Claws' Karen and Ryan Hover teamed up with members of Apples In Stereo and the Drums to release Nostalgia For Infinity, their first album of gauzy, enveloping dream-pop under the name ...

As their recent Orlando show ahead of Friday’s release of their sophomore album (The Twin) proved, this is a band conceived to be seen live, with elaborate stage craft that arguably bests their highly ...

Before essentially disappearing from live music in 2012 and quietly releasing its most recent album, Ceres & Calypso in the Deep Time, in 2013, Candy Claws was one of the few bands around on a small ...

Sound of Ceres, the new project from ex-Candy Claws duo Karen and Ryan Hover, is unsettling. It’s dreamy and David Lynchian. Drone-y and majestic. It’s supposedly about space and existential dread. It ...

A band that had just completed a set at Oakland’s Fox Theater Tuesday night had its vehicle burglarized, with thieves making off with laptops, clothing, some musical gear, passports, IDs and other ...

For the most part, everyone enjoys music. Whether through a pair of headphones, car stereo, home stereo, or Amazon Echo, most all of us love music. The way we enjoy music has drastically changed over ...

Previously working as a duo under the name Candy Claws, Karen and Ryan Hover have long been known for creating songs that blend layers of far-off-sounding synths, guitars, and samples with rhythms ...

Back in 2016, former members of Candy Claws started a new New York-based art-pop project called Sound Of Ceres. Next month, Sound Of Ceres will release their third album Emerald Sea, a concept album ...

Colorado can make for a potent reference point for world building. In the span of a day’s walk, ancient mountains share the skyline with monolithic skyscrapers, and a hike in the woods at light-less ...