CMKY 2013

CMKY TALKS AND PLAYS

Boulder recently celebrated its 6th year of Communikey, a progressive electronic arts festival gathering inventors, technologists, visual, sound, and music artists focused on sustainability and inclusiveness that brings impressive headlining acts and unites the local community.

Founder Kate Lesta is one inspiring lady that does tremendous things in the underground Boulder/Denver music scene and joined me on this episode along with Hayley Dixon of the CMKY staff.

Set List: Thanks Kate Lesta!!!!

Kids on Stilts – “New City”

Larians

DJ This That and the Other – “Dee”

Feathericii and Brian Mayhall – Monsoon remix

DJ This That and the Other – “Gently Now Laura Goldhammer remix”

Brandon Brown remix of Nils Frahm

Michael Neff – Sea of Tranquility

Josephine Foster

Griff Snyder – 100,000 Bellows

Young Pharaohs Part 2

Get your headphones and throw the boys of Young Pharaohs a few bones for this listening experience.

The trio is currently touring the west in a veggie oil powered school bus. Be sure to check them out when they return to Denver as the scene and music they bring is one that shouldn't be missed.

Thanks to Concerted Effort for chronicling the Shakedown event and to PORTALS for showing me a thing or two...or three or four.

YOUNG PHARAOHS PERFORMANCE

Set List:

You Me and Apollo – a pearl

Petal of Spain – lady luck

Mesita – here for you

Chain Gang of 1974

Cerulean – future wind

Obeah – one hand washes the other

VU – left to fit right in

The Fogcutters – it’s my world

2045 AD – the ultra boyz

Dirty Few -  oh yeah oh no

Cells – don’t change your mind

16 horsepower – Low Estate

Slim Cessna’s Auto Club – cranston

Two Tone Wolf Pack – dead man hanging

Across Tundras – dark flower of the prarie

Skully Mammoth – untitled

Git Some – loose control

Warlock pinchers – friends forever anthem 5

Picture Plane –slow it up

Amazing Larry – i don’t even care

Flashbulb Fires – cult life

young pharaohs perform live 

Twine – piano

The Very Hush Hush – washing song

Fevrier – leo sunshine

Ankylosaurus – sweets

Lil Slugger – “O History” premiere track

Flashlights

FLASHLIGHTS makes electro-pop dance music. They have been billed with acts such as Youth Lagoon, Toro Y Moi, & Miami Horror and played festivals such as SXSW, Westword, UMS, Goldrush, CMJ, Goldrush, Snowball, & Treefort.

They bounce and move while making the beats that will do the same to you. They also put on light shows. Listen to this sweet little phone interview and find out what smell Ethan of FLASHLIGHTS would deliver to his audience.

WHAT SMELL WOULD YOU DANCE TO?

Set List:

1       Tantric Picasso - “Make Your Love Bigger”   

2.     Faceman-  “High Gear”

3.     Foam bullets – “it’s gotta end”

4.     Born in the flood – if this thing should spill

1.     elway – “wolf shirt”

2.     overcasters – “storm of crows”

3.     rowboat – devil and dust

4.     the congress – “distance”

1.     mancub – “grace”

2.     men in burka – “khanga”

3.     Fevrier – “something perfect”

4.     Laylights – “highwires”

1.     the pretty sure – "hot sass"

2.     wentworth kersey –“ears burn“

3.     glowing house – “trouble”

4.      tom hagerman – the comedy

1.     16 horsepower – “american wheezer”

2.     air dubai – “love in retrograde”

3.     tarantella – tarentella della morte”

4.     cowgirl radio - “ties that bind”

5.     across tundras –dark flower of the prairie

    FLASHLIGHTS - Closer To Midnight EP 

Young Pharaohs on CMKY Special

Young Pharaohs performance

Glass Homes

Stream It!

Set list:

Slim Cessna's Auto Club - "Pine Box"

Bonnie & the Beard - "Flask in Pocket"

Munly and the Lewis Harlots - "Leonard Cohan"

A Sense of Porpoise - "Weak Nights"

Night of Joy - "John Candy"

Lust Cats of the Gutters - "Nothing Cool (Happens on Dates)

PicturePlane - "Cyclical Cyclical (Atlantis)

Human Agency - "Ancient Chemistry"

Amazing Twin - "New Wives' Tales"

You Me & and Apollo - "Ink on Paper"

The Yawpers - "Worthless"

Everything Absent or Distorted (a love story) - "Bureau of Yards and Ducks"

ManCub - "Sound"

Wire Faces - "Portable Castles"

Woodsman - "Tone Cloak"

The Kissing Party - "The Heart of it All"

Varlet - "The Drifter"

Fortitude - "Ian Cooke"

The Congress - "Loretta"

Fairchildren