Dirty Few

DIRTY FEW PLAYS AND TALKS   

Ahhh, the all-seeing eye... that wants you to party! I have caught Dirty Few, a punk-ish garage rock crew, a couple of times and lightly moshed, banged my head, and smiled with friends. They know how to show their crowd a good time while making quality music you can drink and dance and drink and dance and drink to and do it again the next night.

aaaand

....thanks to the talented and beautiful Maria Kohler of Kitty Crimes for co-hosting the 4 o'clock hour before her CMKY show. Check out Harpoontang and Science Partner and anything else you may find her supporting. It is refreshing to find artists like Maria and I find her incredibly inspiring and an important voice in the Denver scene.

Il Cattivo

 

IL CATTIVO IS ROCK   

I was ridiculously excited during Il Cattivo's set on this week's show. Great fucking rock that made me feel like I could do absolutely anything I goddamn pleased - in a positive, empowering kind of way. I was reminded of the lack of true rock in my life and how I need to add shows with Il Cattivo and friends to my show agenda. 

aaaand...

...thanks to Indigenous Robot for co-hosting before their show at the Fox supporting Black Mountain. Check out their EP and a live show around town, they also rock and are very generous with their promo :)

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

The People's Abstract

 

THE PEOPLE'S ABSTRACT PERFORM

It is experimental jazz done well! The People's Abstract wondered how their set sounded and now they can know it sounds grrreat - super tight and groovy with fine fine players...

 ...aaand

...more fine players of ScaTHer GaTher. I love this band. Their music is rad and they are rad and you can find out for yourself below when you stream our chat and their EP, How Did I End Up Here in it's entirety!

SCATTER GATHER EP PREMIER AND INTERVIEW  

Dragondeer

DRAGONDEER SET AND INTERVIEW  

I'd seen clips of Dragondeer performances and knew what I was getting into on this week's Local Shakedown. 

A super trio of Eric Halborg of The Swayback on vocals, harmonica, & guitar, Cole Rudy of Varlet on Lap Steel & Mandolin, and Chimney Choir's Carl Sorensen on drums & percussion is nothing less than exactly what you want to hear. I didn't realize blues and psych could do this. and my god Sorensen's performance on the second song kills me. 

Listen to their set and to the interview - it is a good one. 

Shady Elders

Sigh. I was looking forward to this performance for weeks. I heard my sub Laila did an excellent interview. Sigh. Shit happens and shit was lost. 

RIP Shady Elders Local Shakedown performance and interview. 

But please listen and buy this phenomenal EP here and check out Shady Elders live when you can, they are  so very worth it. 

Otem Rellik

OTEM RELLIK  

Otem Rellik aka Toby Hendricks was one of my first, "oh this is someone prominent in the local scene to know" moments when I first took over the local shakedown. I didn't know much about Toby other than ... wait just check out his sweet website that will explain what I can't cause he's got a lot going on.

And listen to his sets and us talk about Denver and thangs.