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Lo Moon’s Arresting Pop Songs Come From Patience and Meditation

Lo Moon took a different route than other bands coming up in the age of the Internet. Rather than share musical ideas and songs immediately through social media or a digital platform like Bandcamp, the Los Angeles group worked on its music for four and a half years before releasing its debut single, “Loveless” in 2016.

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Harry Tuft, Godfather of Denver Folk, Is Now Free to Be a Folk Musician Himself

At eighty years old, Harry Tuft is finally getting the time and opportunity to do what he came to Colorado to do in the first place in 1960: play music. Not that Tuft hasn’t played music all along and put out albums, but it is the first time he’s been free to do so without the weight of running a store, leading the local chapter of the musicians’ union, or, in years past, booking acts like Joan Baez and arranging for her to meet the Beatles when the Fab Four played Red Rocks in 1964. He basically served as the de facto godfather of Denver folk through his establishment of the Denver Folklore Center in 1962, and he was instrumental in founding Swallow Hill. If Tuft hadn’t left Philadelphia to move here, inspired by stories of the opportunities to play live out west, Denver music and culture would be immeasurably diminished.

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Always Human Tapes Showcase Will Be an Audiovisual Cornucopia

Theater Electronic-music imprint Always Human TapesTheater is putting on a showcase of its artists over three days at the ATLAS Black Box Theater on the CU Boulder campus and at 1010 Workshop in Denver. Ryan Wurst founded the label in the summer of 2013 while earning his master’s degree in visual…

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Progressive-Rock Band Marillion Pioneered Crowdfunding

Marillion may not be a name familiar to a lot of people who didn’t pay attention to progressive rock in the 1980s and 1990s. However, the veteran progressive-rock band pioneered the concept of crowdfunding for tours and albums starting in the late ’90s. Marillion released its earliest recordings in 1982…

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Could This Be Little Fyodor and Babushka Band’s Final Show?

After nearly thirty years of performing as Little Fyodor, Dave Lichtenberg is putting his current project, Little Fyodor & Babushka Band, on indefinite hiatus. That means that the band’s show on Saturday, October 15, at the Lion’s Lair will be its last performance for the foreseeable future. The event is…

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Jive Church and the Rebirth of the Pamlico Sound

The Pamlico Sound is releasing its latest full-length album, Jive Church, which represents a good deal of work, re-work and rebirth for the band over the course of the last year and a half. Horn player and vocalist Will Baumgartner put the outfit together in June 2015 after a year’s hiatus…

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Clock DVA Is Finding a Renaissance in the New Industrial Era

With the recent upswing in popularity of industrial and experimental electronic music with new artists emerging from the older Goth-industrial scene, it seems as though Clock DVA was ahead of the curve when it reactivated in 2008. Groups like Youth Code, BURNING, Troller, All Your Sisters, Curse and Echo Beds draw…

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Beach House Keeps Things Fresh with the Help of Its Fans

Beach House is winding down its touring cycle for its 2015 albums Depression Cherry and Thank Your Lucky Stars. During the past year the band has made good on its impulse to have diverse performance experiences with elaborate props and a light show made especially for the tour. “We had…

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Best New Denver Bands — 2016 Edition

Every year, Denver delivers up worthy new bands in various genres, or non-genres, and this past year has been especially rich in that regard. In a future list, perhaps we can include artists like Born Dumb, Herse, Jimmy V, Julien, Bag, Total Goth, Silver Face, eHpH, Never Kenezzard and PterrorFractyl,…

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Yoni & Geti Perform the Final Set of Testarossa in Denver

Yoni Wolf and David Cohn have helped to shape and influence the sound of underground hip-hop as we know it. Under their respective creative monikers of Why? and Serengeti, the two artists have collaborated with several other artists on numerous projects. Yoni & Geti is their current joint effort with…