SIX MONTHS TO LIVENOMINATED IN INDIE POP12:00-12:45 P.M., BAR STANDARDPersonnel: Gregory Hill; Chris Brumbaugh; Shawn Sandler; Donnie Maul; Matt ShupeDiscography: A Better Place (2008); Starting as of Now (EP) (2006)Download or stream "The Night Your House Down" after the jump.
Local oddball popsters Six Months to Live are calling it quits -- just as soon as the new album is finished and released. "If stoned friends are any judge of quality, it's going to be an incredible record," frontman Gregory Hill says. The band's CD release and final show will be November 14 at the Meadowlark.
And as for why the band is breaking up? Hill shows the same flair for explanation that he does for obtuse and off the wall lyrics. "In four words: creative differences, sort of. Not reall
Having released three albums in four years, Six Months to Live
has been one of the most prolific of poppy rock and roll bands out of
Denver. Formed by former members Mr.
Tree and the Wingnuts, Six Months' membership has included Mendel
Rabinovitch of Cabaret Diosa and Zack Littlefield of Sonnenblume. With
the relatively humble goal of being a great rock and roll band, this
quartet weathered the slings and arrows of playing the local circuit
and became exactly that. These guys never assumed th
Six Months to Live, deadbubbles and Dario Rosa
Saturday, November 14, 2009
Meadowlark
Better Than: The second big snowstorm of the season outside.
Opening act deadbubbles set the pace for the rest of the show with an
energetic set of rock and roll full of more than its fair share of
weirdness and eccentricity mixed in to keep things interesting.
Frontman Arlo White leaped, pranced and gestured with tasteful bombast
about the room during the band's set, and during "6669," he held a
utility li