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Suburban Home Records Gets Pilfered Again

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Suburban Home Records Gets Pilfered Again

Details of Jon Snodgrass's new album revealed

Jon Snodgrass, one half of the almighty Drag the River, is preparing to release his debut solo effort. The album, Visitor's Band, which is slated for release on Tuesday, February 4, on Suburban Home Records, features a slew of guests, including Two Cow Garage, Chad Rex, Joey Erg, Chris Pierce and Er ... More >>

The Beatdown

The music industry is in a shambles, but Suburban Home is celebrating independence day.

The Beatdown

For your ears only: You can listen to the music, but by God, don’t share it.

The Beatdown

Usually, the Morning After is all about regret. This one is filled with optimism.

The Beatdown

Elevators, Frappuccinos, and things that go bump in the night.

Colorado Music Summit

Putting together a music conference is hard enough. Try doing it in just four months.

Heady Metal

With On High, Chris Fogal is shredding again with a vengeance.

Reunited and It Feels So Good

The ghost of Denver’s past pays us a visit, just in time for the holidays.

Home Alone

Suburban Home Records gets pilfered. Again.

Home Stand

A decline in sales forces Suburban Home Records to scale back.

Alert the Media

Waking Rothko knows how to get a critic's attention.

Westword Music Showcase 2006

Be there or be square!

Top of the Morning

This local label boosts Denver's national image.

Release Me

A roundup of six local imprints.

Score

I needed a fix, and Chris Fogal delivered.

Classroom Rebels

A new film spotlights the fight for equal education in Denver

Paying the Price

Unlike their more commercial pop-punk counterparts, the Gamits are most interested in good old-fashioned rocking.

Download Mike Hale's Suburban Home debut FREE!

Virgil Dickerson's Suburban Home Records is the latest in a line of indie labels giving away music, in hopes of generating interest in tours, merchandise and other artists on the label. This time, it's not simply a teaser EP, designed to grab your email address to promote the full-length when it's f ... More >>

Gregory Alan Isakov gets distribution from Suburban Home

In a unique arrangement, Suburban Home Records has come to an agreement to do distribution and, through the Vinyl Collective sublabel, a vinyl release of Gregory Alan Isakov's self-released record This Empty Northern Hemisphere. Under terms of the deal, Suburban Home will handle distribution of the ... More >>

Suburban Home announces limited pressing of Drag the River anthology

​Drag the River has always been about giving fans the biggest bang for their hard-earned buck. If you ever stumbled into a bar that has a Drag record in the jukebox, for instance, you've probably noticed that if you select the last track on the album, you're treated to the entire album. Genius, ri ... More >>

Illegal Pete's to feed Starving Artists coming through Denver

​So this is a rad perk for touring acts coming through Colorado. Suburban Home Records honcho Virgil Dickerson and our own Andy Thomas have teamed up with Illegal Pete's to establish the aptly dubbed Starving Artists Program, which is exactly what it sounds like: Setting up weary bands on the ... More >>

Download Suburban Home Records Mix Tape Volume 4 free today

​Suburban Home has long been releasing mix tapes put together by label owner Virgil Dickerson, but it wasn't until recently these started popping up on the website. Thankfully, those of us that missed the original CDRs will have a chance to catch up, at least in the case of the fourth volume, ... More >>

Chad Price, Lenny Lashley and Pete Stein play Sad Slow Songs at 3 Kings Tavern

Photo by Matt Schild/Vinylcollective.comChad Price ​CHAD PRICE With Lenny Lashley • Pete Stein 12.17.10 | 3 Kings Tavern Former punks and present cowpunks splayed open their hearts in the tradition of the great singer-songwriters last night at 3 Kings Tavern, 60 South Broadway. Lenny Lashle ... More >>

Download Suburban Home's free mix tape to prep for two months of shows

​Suburban Home has been releasing mix tapes for a free for quite a while now, but it seems as though they might have reached the numerical limit of the format, because they've started over. That's right, we've got another Suburban Home Presents Mix Tape Volume 1, which might cause slight confu ... More >>

2011 Westword Music Showcase Ballot

​Seventeen years! It's hard to believe we've been doing the Westword Music Showcase for that long. I can still remember being at the first one in LoDo nearly two decades ago. And when I think back, it seems like that cold, rainy Sunday night was just a few years ago.

Snake Rattle Rattle Snake partners with Greater Than artist collective for new record, Sineater

​In case you haven't heard yet, Snake Rattle Rattle Snake is playing a free in-store at Twist and Shout at 6 p.m. August 16, in celebration of the release of the band's first full-length, Sineater. That performance is timed to coincide with a release show later that week at the Bluebird on Aug ... More >>

Suburban Home Records gearing up to celebrate its sweet sixteen in September at 3 Kings Tavern

​It's hard to believe that Suburban Home Records has been around nearly two decades now. Seriously. Where does the time go? The label -- home to heralded bands like the Gamits and Drag the River over the years -- has weathered a lot of storms and this coming September, it will be celebrating i ... More >>

Sin Desires Marie on Fugazi and the puzzling novelty of women playing powerful music

Tom Murphy​In the eloquent liner notes of Sin Desires Marie, the band's sole full-length, bassist Yoon Park explains that Sin Desires Marie (due tonight at Glob for this weekend's Titwrench Festival) was started by friends who learned how to play their respective instruments as they learned to ... More >>

Century Media exits Spotify: Is there value for indie labels in making their catalogs available?

​In a press release last week, Century Media announced it would be pulling its music from the streaming music service Spotify. The metal-centric label is certainly not the first to express its distrust of streaming services, and it probably won't be the last. As fans and consumers have been pu ... More >>