Earlier today, we posted a Q&A with Brikabrak and Naeem Oba, and now we present you with a free track from the pair to download. Built upon a beat laid down by King Karnov, the track, “I Don’t Know,” centers on Naeem Oba’s rhymes, which he recorded at CCM studios…
The Colorado Music Association has evidently come out of its COMA — uh, literally and figuratively. From hosting round-tables to providing artists one free barcode a year enabling them to sell their merchandise, the volunteer-driven non-profit has been an invaluable resource for some musicians. We’ve heard others, meanwhile, grumble that…
Fierce Bad Rabbit, the promising Fort Collins-based act led by Chris Anderson, formerly of the Jimi Austin, and featuring Dayton Hicks of Arliss Nancy, Alana Rolfe of Stella Luce and Adam Pitner, is currently working on a brand new record. Although no release date has been set yet for the…
For more than a year, the Swayback have shuttled back and forth to Los Angeles to work with revered knob turner Andy Johns. While this news is not exactly new to us, it has managed to garner the notice of Music Connection Magazine, who included a photo of the outfit…
Man, has it been almost a month already since Hearts of Palms reconvened for a pair of back-to-back shows at the hi-dive? Guess so. Evidently, it’s been long enough for the dynamic duo known as Locker Partners to piece together a trio of super slick videos that are poignant and…
Been a minute since we posted Distrakt’s handiwork. Besides griding in the rap game, the Colorado Springs-based MC has been hella busy on the visual front, from creating videos for artists like Georgia Ann Muldrow to creating his own video games. And when we scoped his latest claymation short (emphasis…
Sixteen Candles: Are you about to turn sixteen, or do you know somebody who is? Then pay close attention to this next item: Evidently, the one and only KS-107.5 drive time mixmaster extraordinaire DJ Chonz is willing to get behind the decks for you or your loved one’s sweet 16…
Here what the area’s local-centric specialty radio shows were spinning this week. We’re currently tracking the playlists a number of different shows, including Radio 1190’s Local Shakedown, KTCL’s Locals Only, 99.5 the Mountain’s Homegrown Show*, the Colorado Sound, which originates at KRFC and is re-broadcast all over Colorado, and the…
Ah, man, it’s that time of year already? Time to start hearing all about how everybody’s preparing their livers for South By Southwest, yada, yada, yada? Yep. Appears so. Even though it’s still more than three months away, the shadow of Austin’s annual booze and schmooze fest looms large. And…
Earlier this week, we made mention of ManeRok striking out on his own, and now, thanks to director Chad Bardon, we’ve got our hands on the video for one of the first solo tracks to surface from MC, a cut called “A Game,” featuring Es-Nine on the decks, from the…
Singing a cappella is an art — and artform that most of us would be better off not practicing at all. Ever. For any reason. (We’re not being mean here: We’ve heard you singing in the car. Really. Yikes!) Take it from us: It’s best to leave the art to…
Unless you’re a willful and adamant luddite or a conscientious dissenter pop culture trends, you’ve undoubtedly noticed how Twitter has steadily and unceremoniously unseated all the other social networking sites to become the primary means of communication and information dissemination in the Obama era. (Yes, we know some of you…
We’re all about local. It’s what we do. It’s who we are. And so we’re all about buying local (well, aside from the American Spirit cigarettes we smoke, the Circle K coffee we drink and the Hondas we drive). So naturally, we totally appreciate and co-sign the sentiments behind the…
Every Friday we spotlight the hottest cats behind the decks in the MHC, grilling them to gain some insight on what it takes, exactly, to get the party rocking, to find out about their most treasured crate digging experiences and what they really think when we stumble up to them…
Makeout Point, a newer outfit that formed this past spring, recently finished filming its first video for a song called “Falling In.” We just got a peek at some stills from the shoot and the video looks like it’s going to be positively funtastic on the homemade goodness tip, with…
Kill Paradise, which issued its brand new album, The Second Effect, on BreakSilence Recordings, this past month, just posted a vintage live clip filmed at the Plano Centre in Plano, Texas, at Unsilent Night 2, last holiday season. Although the crowd reaction seems to fairly lively in the video, we’re…
Fort Collins-based indie rock maestros M. Pyres just completed work on a brand new album titled Apart the Echo, which is out now on the band’s label, Patient Sounds, and will be officially released locally sometime within next month. We got our hands on a track from the new record,…
Chuck Potashner will always be awesome to us, even if he now calls San Diego his home. As you probably know, this past February, the mastermind behind teamAWESOME! picked up stakes and moved back to his native San Diego. Although he’s been gone almost a year now, we miss Chuck,…
Of Meese and Spin: You know what we love about life? We learn something new every day. Today, for instance, we learned that the members of Meese are literate — well, at least Nathan Meese, anyhow. And we also learned that Spin files the band under up-and-comers. We discovered this…
Being in the music business is tough these days. Ask Randall Frazier, who, as reported yesterday, recently shuttered Massive Music America, a fairly successful independent promotions firm he launched in 2003. “The digital music/iPod world that we are now living in has greatly changed the music industry,” he declares. “Five…
As music critics — and people who generally think about, talk about, listen to and make music — the most common question we get asked (and ask each other, for that matter) is, “What are you listening to right now?” The pervasiveness of this query is precisely what inspired Heavy…
Massive movement: Just received word that Massive Music America, the independent promotions firm launched in 2003 in association with Helmet Room Recordings, which has handled campaigns for an array of artists including the Legendary Pink Dots, Beta-Lactam Ring Records and Edward Ka-Spel, among others, is shutting its doors. The company…
