After taking a week off to celebrate buying/receiving stuff for/from our loved ones, Andy Thomas and I returned to the airwaves last night (a day early in honor of drinking our faces off during Night of the Rookie Livers this evening) and played a bunch of great stuff -- as much as we could fit in, anyhow, in between the commercials and sweepers and stuff and us jabbering and whatnot. The playlist from the show, which we've dutifully dubbed the New Year's Eve, Eve edition (clever, right?), is po
In recent years, Fort Collins has produced and fostered its fair share of acts, from Brotherhood of Dae Han and the Heyday to Set Forth and Roe. Now our neighbor to the north has its very own local-music festival, thanks to the fine folks at the Fort Collins Musicians Association. The event, dubbed Fort Collins Music eXperiment, FoCoMX for short, will coincide with the city's local-music appreciation month, is slated to take place over the course of two days at various venues across the city on
"Ah, man, I love this song!" I must make this remark a lot during the show. Last night, as I was marveling out loud about one of the tunes -- I'm not sure which one, but I think it might've been "Skinny" by Scaffolding -- Andy pointed out the obvious: I should love them, since I pick what we play each week. After all, it stands to reason that I'd play songs I liked. He's got a point. Guess I'm a little dense sometimes. Anyhow, Andy was back last night in the co-host chair, and we had a blast as
A year ago today, Johnny Schou died tragically at the young age of 22. Hard to believe that it's already been a year since the talented Tickle Me Pink bassist passed away. Schou, as you might remember, in a cruel twist of fate, died the morning that his band released Madeline, its Wind-up Records debut. His surviving bandmates somehow summoned to courage to soldier on after his death, drafting former Brotherhood of Dae Han guitarist Joey Barba to join the fold. The quartet, which just played a s
