FaceMan

The above images above are from FaceMan's new record. It gives you an idea how awesome this band is. SO AWESOME. They are some kind of unifier for Denver bands, they play with/know everyone it seems and this year's FaceMan's Waltz was a success. 

Dean is one of my favorite local drummers (captivating!) and I believe him and David teach lessons professionally so go to them! And Steve - so emotive and full of passion. Passion for what I'm not sure but it doesn't matter. I love these guys and love watching them live but listening to a live set (a very good one) works too so listen below. 

TALK TALK TALK

Set List:

Eye & the Arrow - LSD Western
Rowboat - Cold, Black Wind
Esther Sparks & the Whiskey Remedy - Back to Life
Fierce Bad Rabbit - Carry On
Instant Empire - Flicking Youth
CC/NN - My Bodhicitta Girl
Astra Moveo - Don't Waste Another Night
Adai - Graves
Port Au Prince - Jesus Kathleen
Turner Jackson - Jackson
Strange Powers - The Metro  

The Abstract Collective

Unfortunately this post has no visual of the band...I considered throwing up some vibraphones as they are what caught my attention to this Colorado Hip-Hop group...

The Abstract Collective blends multiple sounds and influences together quite well and put on a good show with inspiring lyrics and vibes, pun intended. Listen below, the song about a rabbit hole gets rill trippy and this band totally brings it. 

THE ABSTRACT COLLECTIVE PLAYS AND TALKS

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 (partial) Set List:

Wire Faces - Replicator
You Me & Apollo - Oh My Molly
Carbon Choir - Cracks
Princess Music - White Wave
The FoodChain - See Light
Sole - Animal
Varlet - Drifter
Eye & the Arrow - Honey Wine

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
 

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?