Esmé Patterson

Esmé Patterson is an effing star.  I was legitimately nervous when she came through the station to perform. One of Colorado's Paper Birds, Esmé recently released her debut solo LP,  All Princes, I produced by Roger Green and full of some of Denver's best players. "Folk and Roll" is a decent way to describe the record but it is much more than that and I seriously cannot stop listening.

All Princes, I is in another league and Esmé's voice! Ahhh this kind of voice doesn't come around often.

Check out the album on American Songwriter  and listen to her Local Shakedown performance and interview below. ESME PATTERSON IS ONE OF THE ABSOLUTE BESTS

Set List:
Ron Miles - Just Married
ScaTTer GaTHer - The Devil Returns
The Vicious Women - For She
Ian Cooke - Bones
The Echo Chamber - The Wolf, The Eagle, and The Serpent
Land Lines - Instruments and Books
Le Divorce - In the Waves
LONG E, short e - Unlike a Machine
SHEL - Please Come Home
Wentworth Kersey - Sun and Moon
Sole - Bottle of Humans
 

A Night of Joy

Don't be a poser. Here is some good punk music, performed live from A NIGHT OF JOY 

...and Gennny, Paul, and Caleb of Paper Bird joined us in the station to talk (and sing) about their upcoming performance of Carry On with Ballet Nouveau Colorado. GO! September 7th at the Ellie Caulkins Opera House. PAPER BIRD SINGS

Some artists played:

Boulder Acoustic Society
El Toro de la Muerte 
Pin Downs
Navy Girls 
Drag the River
Sawmill Joe
--> Chimney Choir 
Haunted Windchimes
The Knew
Dovekins 
Bury My Bones 




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Patrick Dethlefs Part 2

Patrick Dethlefs makes music he shouldn't be experienced enough to make. His new LP Fall + Rise is everything you want from a singer-songwriter - his words, voice, and musicians accompanying them couldn't get much better, yet the transformation from 2010's Stays the Same shows Patrick is not about to settle in his already above average songwriting. Fall + Rise is the next installment to the future of a long collection of work from a brilliant artist. The album is here and how about the beautiful watercolor on the cover by Paperbird's Paul DeHaven?  I still want a poster... 

                                                                

LISTEN TO LIVE PERFORMANCE

Set List:

A Mouthful of Thunder – “All My Blood”

We Are Not A Glum Lot – “This One Battle” 

The Maykit – “Completely Over and Over”

Landlord Land

Bear Antler – “Take Long”

Warhawk – “Flamethrower”

A Shoreline Dream -  “Focus the Present Before the Present”

All Capitals – “Apocalips”

Soapy Argyle – “Then I’d be Happy”
Bare Bones – “A Halo & the Devil’s Laugh”

Reviving Cecilia – “Silence in Sound”

Mosey West – “In Tune” 

Mr. Pacman – “No Ghosts”

Patrick Lee – “Southern Lights”

Allout Helter – “An Hour Made for Arson” 

Deadlock Frequency – “Angels Never Answer”

Hindershot, Fiction is Fun, Nathaniel Rateliff, Fairchildren 

Eye & the Arrow

Although this blog entry has no visuals, Eye & the Arrow is a Denver band to watch...closely!

After experiencing live shows and listening to this EP on repeat I still can't figure out what makes this trio work so well. Perhaps its Paul's fresh yet familiar melodies meshed with a drumming style only Mark can claim. The rhythm exchanges between all (Jason on bass!) happen rather unexpectedly. The final song of the set "Stutter Beat" is a good example of uncatchable rhythms and swirling notes that make for moments of uncertainty of where it all might land. But it does, gracefully, leaving you wanting another go around.

STREAM AND ENJOY

Set List:

Bad Weather California - "I Feel Like Dancing"

Science Partner - "Animal"

Fingers of the Sun - "Goodbye Summer"

Land Lines - "Near Year" Live @ Larimer Lounge

John Common & Blinding Flashes of Ligh - "Go to Hell (with me)"

Dressy Bessy - "Just One More"

The Outfit - "Intro" and "Strange Bones"

M and the Gem Stars - "Shrine"

Hindershot - "It's Only Blood"

The Centennial - "You Don't Get to Say"

Glass Hits - "Delirium Heights"

Jay J Mattot & the Arctic - "Night Birds" and "Morning Sun"

Patrick Dethlefs

The Devil Whale

Princess Music

Bad Weather California

Patrick Dethlefs

A camera was forgotten for Patrick Dethlefs' performance at the station last Friday but here's to a poor quality phone photo taken during his performance at the Fox!

Patrick is truly a natural on stage and over the air waves. The Local Shakedown can't wait to have him back for his album release in June.

More importantly, stream Patrick's performance and interview!

STREAM IT HERE

Other tunes from the show:

Rabbit is a Sphere - "Hell has a Heart"

The Knew - "HLS"

Gauntlet Hair - "All Eyes"

Flashbulb Fires - "Pyramid Scheme"

American Tomahawk - "Our Song Knife"

Il Cattivo - "You Again"

Havok - "Covering Fire"

Fairchildren - "Hansel & Gretel"

WheelChair Sports Camp - "Where We All Live"

In the Whale - "Women"

Hideous Men - "Fantasy Cloak"

Nathaniel Rateliff - "Whimper & Wail"

Ryan Dart - "Too Old"

Mr. Anonymous - "Bashment"

Poet's Row - "Exquisite Corpse" and "Ancient Game"

Paper Bird - "Canyon"

Nathaniel Rateliff - "A Lamb on the Stone"

Gryph of Dovekins - "Say Darlin"

Princess Music - "Roger Tranquility"