I was very excited to receive an instant message yesterday from Adam Lancaster, of Morning After Records, announcing his return to live performance. Adherents of the Denver music scene will remember that Lancaster fronted his own loud, energetic, melodic rock band, Curious Yellow, until about four years ago, when other life priorities -- like helping to run a record label, holding down a day job and being a dad -- necessitated stepping back. Aside from a couple of
Black Mountain Studios​Hearts of Palm started out in the winter of 2006 as a pop song writing
collaboration between former Roper and Black Black Ocean guitarist
Stephen Till and longtime friend Nathan McGarvey. Within the following
year, the project expanded to eight plus members and the band's sound
went from a spare and earnest beauty to an exuberant and impassioned
exorcism of melancholy moods. During the course of the band's
existence, it won accolades from critics and fans alike and relea