Aug 292012
 

So there hasn’t been much activity on this here blog as of late. The reason? Actually, there are two: first, I’ve been working on the startup phase for a new national music news site, Music Is My Oxygen (which you should totally check out) for which I am the editor and content manager; and second, I’ve been taking a bit of a breather since the Underground Music Showcase to regroup and re-think.

What this boils down to is that The Oomph Music Blog is about to undergo some exciting changes in the next couple of weeks. While I will still be doing record reviews of indie bands from across the globe that catch my fancy, the main thrust of this blog will be to focus on the Denver music scene–similar to what I have been doing as the Denver Local Music Examiner for the past three years. The weekend picks formerly found on Examiner.com, for example, will be moving here after Labor Day. We’ll also be posting profiles, interviews, and concert reviews here.

I’ll be keeping my column at Examiner.com active for awhile longer, posting mainly feature pieces there. However, The Oomph Music Blog is going to become my main outlet for sharing the best of what the Denver music scene has to offer–from my limited perspective, of course.

Stay tuned…things are looking good!

Jan 112010
 

Photo: Adam Elmakias

Denver local band The Heyday, a pop-rock band who was recently voted into the Hometown for the Holidays Top 3, is making their entire full length, self-titled album available to the public as a free download for the month of January.

For more info about The Heyday, read my profile of the band on Examiner.com.

The Heyday: Turn Me Around
The Heyday: Come In or Stay Out

Nov 172009
 

Waking Up, the second full-length recording by OneRepublic, hits record stores today.

With origins here in Colorado, this band–one of my favorites–has a tale more complex than the typical “local boys make good in LA” story. A tribute to the power of new media, OneRepublic had a hit single, was making live prime-time television appearances, and was one of the biggest bands on MySpace–and had no record label. Their recording contract with Columbia had gone south months before. Their breakout hit, “Apologize”, was actually introduced to America as a feature track on a Timbaland record, and Timbaland signed them to his new label shortly afterward. The result was their long-anticipated debut record, Dreaming Out Loud.
Waking Up was recorded here in Denver, and is described on OneRepublic’s MySpace page as “the band’s most sweeping, cinematic effort to date, with even more strings and movie-like moments.” OneRepublic is also currently offering a collector’s edition package online, including an autographed copy of the lead sheet of the single “All the Right Moves” and some other goodies.
You can download the new release on Amazon or OneRepublic - Waking Up (Deluxe Version).