We Are Not A Glum Lot

WE ARE NOT A GLUM LOT GIVES US GOOSEBUMPS

This 4 piece fronted by vocalist/guitarist Sam Erickson is from Colorado Springs and we thank them for making the trip to the station. Some element of their performance gave me chills (which doesn't happen too terribly often). Perhaps it is because this group is pretty young (half are seniors in high school and the other half, college freshman) and have a successful future of music making ahead of them. Or maybe it was the grandiose violin lines against hard riffs and mathy guitar licks that felt like some kind of different, anti-pop. With multiple influences that make for unexpected appearances in their song writing, this is a band to keep an eye on as they mature and come into their own.

We Are Not A Glum Lot opens for Sea Wolf at the Black Sheep in Colorado Spring January 24th.

Set List:

Velventeen Monster - Velventeen Monster

Attic Attack - The Silver Lining

Eye and the Arrow - Prophet's Home Town

Drunken Arrows - It's Polite 

FaceMan - Talk Talk Talk

Emmet Collins - Excite Me 

Calpso - Over and Over 

C.P. Carrington 

Rainbow Sugar - World's Most Exciting Ride 

Instant Empire - Keep Up! 

ScaTTer GaTHer

Go here  <--- and listen to ScaTHer GaTHer's album, Just Smile. But don't stay too devoted to its horns and quality streamline production. Live, this duo creates a different experience of raw jolted nervous rock that is a sure relief for listeners tired of the same ol' predictable things. 

A SCATTERED YET GATHERED PERFORMANCE AND INTERVIEW

And a very special thanks to Ned and Stuart of Ned Garthe for co-hosting the 4'clock hour.

  

Set List:

The Yawpers/Eldren - It's Christmas

Friends War - Achille Lauro
The Blue Rider - Way Out West
Action Friend - D6 Runs Dry
Candy Claws
Pit Vipers - Night Stroll
Ned Garthe - Someone in the Room (mix 666)
The Yawpers - Silicone Love
Kissing Party - Ways to Mickey
The Knew - Picnic
Dirty Few - Oh Yea! Oh No!
Colfax Speed Queen - Fiends in the Night
Night of Joy - Cool Runnings
Calypso - Over and Over
The River Drifters - Hell-Boulder in the Eden Tornado
Native Daughters - Private Sauce
C.P. Carrington - The Difference 

Land Lines

One of my favorites, I was extra excited for this performance (one that is completely unique to the record or prior performances!). Denver's Land Lines recently put out an LP and it is worth dozens n dozens of plays. Check it out here.

Cellos, vocals, drums....superior song crafting and mood setting. If I was a better writer I could tell you what it felt like in the 1190 station after Land Lines finished their set. It was some kind of magical / the best of feelings that only happens after something truly special happens.

Listen to their performance and interview and go to their record release show January 5th and the Mercury Cafe!

A VERY SPECIAL PERFORMANCE AND INTERVIEW FROM LAND LINES  

Set List:

Dirty Few - You Want Me
Love Me Destroyer - California Car, Colorado Car
Jonathan Alonzo - Coming Home for the Holiday
Thrifty Astronaut - Television Special
Rachael Pollard - Believe It or Not
The Broken Spoke - Talk of the Town
Breakfastes - Ageless
Neptune's Only Daughter - Auto Electric
Echo Beds - Totalitarian Guillotine
Force Publique - Ache
Candy Claws - Warm Forest Floor
Itchy-O - Orange Devil
Signal Path - Peso
Esme Patterson - Jessica

The Longest Day of the Year

 

The Longest Day of the Year is Americana the way Coloradans like it, good 'n' rowdy.  Listen up here: 

TLDOTY PLAYS AND TALKS

Set List: 

Elephant Revival - Raven Song

Anthony Ruptak - Resillusion

Patrick Dethlefs - Fall & Rise 

Tin Horn Prayer - Fire in the Jailhouse

Mesita - Hostages

Otem Rellik - Lifetime

Thrifty Astronaut - Television Special

Monofog - Small Black Box

SF1 - Permanent

Boulder Acoustic Society - Punchline

Slim Cessna's Autoclub - Shady Lane

Bad Weather California - Lost Her Innocence

The Outfit - Cavalier

Joy Subtraction - Investment Bankers Unite!

d.biddle - A Promise Never Broken

CougarPants - Stolen Honey

Foam Bullets - Deepwater

The Suffix Punch - Algorhythm

Warlock Pinchers - Dont Beep This Song The Radio 

These United States - Not Gone Tonight

Head for the Hills - TIme to Spare

Overcasters - Storm of Crows

Ideal Fathers - The Unberable Lightness of Being

Hot I.Q.'s - Firecracker

The Family Men - Are You Ready for the Sex Girls?  

Varlet

Other than being one of the nicest groups of people I have encountered on the Shakedown, Denver's Varlet has more than a few things going for them.

First, Lilly Scott is one commanding songwriter and vocalist. With a set of distinguishable and powerful pipes she stomps on a wooden platform while performing and it is hard to look/listen away.

Second, her band mates play on a shit ton of gear that make up a sound that, when I first heard them live, thought it was prerecorded.

Third, there is really no point attaching genres to this group. They manage to blend it all into this:

 VARLET IS HOT, LISTEN TO THEM

 

Set List:

War Over Water - Lubbock

Monroe Monroe- The Salesman

The Emirs – The Shining Motor City (on the hill)

The Minders – Chatty Patty

Everything Absent or distorted – The Exit Parade

Black Black Ocean – Sigmund City

The Yawpers -  Rock Bottom 

200 Million Years - No Good News

The Maykit - East and West

Grant Sabin - Dreaming

The Gromet - Skip Your Stone

Goodbye Timebomb - What I Like Doing With My Time

Broken Tongues - Does Hip Hop Remember the Jazz 

 

Tin Horn Prayer

Tin Horn Prayer's third LP Grapple the Rails is a win of a punk-folk-bluegrass combo that could only be birthed in Denver. Raw and high energy, this 6 piece brings a generous mix of instrumentation fronted by Andy Thomas' killer vocals. The following performance is stripped but you'll get a good idea of what they bring. 

TIN HORN PRAYER PLAYS AND TALKS THEIR FAVORITE THANKSGIVING SIDE DISH

Set List:

Elliot Baker - Babatunde Stardust (CC/NN remix)
Cceruleann - Future Wind
Men In Burka - Bismillah
Slow Magic - On Yr Side
Hills & Hollows - I Shouldn't Go
The Hollyfelds - 32nd Street
DeVotchka - All The Sand In All The Sea
Cougarpants - They NEver
Plastic Children - Acid Dreams
Lockbox - Parmenter Acid
Wire Faces - Cloak and Dagger
Rainbow Sugar - World's Most Exciting Ride
The Sleepers - Venice
Planes Mistaken for Stars - Cooper and Stars
Phonebooks - Cheree (SUICIDE cover)
Robin Walker - Teeth Rotting
Green Carpeted Stairs - My Regret
Fissure Mystic - Seasons Fly
Witch Doctor - Life Affirming Suicide Note
Widower - Black Out Bastard Sons
Hot White - Istswtd
Tin Horn Prayer - Call a Priest

Pledge Drive w/ The Knew and The Outfit

Members from the Knew and The Outfit helped us end our Fall 2012...which is sort of like a party which is why I don't have a set list.

But I do have that photo of our mascot. (yes, we used previously scratched vinyl).

Thank you The Knew and The Outfit - you all are the very best and congrats on your 2012 "Best Of" accomplishments and thanks for supporting the real deal college radio, Radio 1190!!!