I’ve observed two schools of thought when it comes to band debuts. On one hand, several bands I’ve talked to deliberately refrained from “going public” until they had played together for months and maybe even made a record first. Then on the other side, there are bands who choose to evolve publicly, being willing to step out...
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...
Check out this article from Westword: http://www.westword.com/2010-01-07/music/presenting-a-half-dozen-acts-worth-keeping-an-eye-on-in-2010/ I’ll cut to the chase: of the six Denver bands mentioned in this article, two of them I had picked two months ago as bands with promise. Snake Rattle Rattle Snake is one. The other, and the one I want to focus on at the moment, is...
This post is supplementary material to my article on Examiner.com. One year ago today, guitarist Dylan Busby’s solo project morphed into Ft. Collins band DB and the Catastrophe. With a diverse sound fluctuating between pop-punk and ska, the band’s contagious enthusiasm recently garnered them a Top 12 slot by voter-listeners in Channel 93.3′s Hometown...
Among the several thousand hundred several vistors to this blog each week, I know there are some musicians that stop by here, as well as music fans. I know this in part because when I write a profile about a band or artist, I usually send them a link; and in part because bands...
Happy New Year, everyone… Local Denver band Vices I Admire, an alternative indie band recently voted into the Top 12 Bands for Channel 93.3′s Hometown for the Holidays, is headlining a concert tonight at the Bluebird Theater to celebrate the release of their sophomore CD release, The Politics of Apathy.Concert starts at 8:00 pm,...
