December 2012
The whole Indie phenomenon is what really keeps me generally detached from mainstream popular music. Something never cliqued with me about bands like Radiohead or Arcade Fire. And not that those particular acts would self-apply their music as “indie”, as it usually seems that its listeners that apply the label. Maybe it's the very concept of straying from what was previously donned as hip becoming the new hip.
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Honing their chops each Tuesday evening for a full year at the famed Denver jamband venue Quixote's, Denver based quintet Whiskey Tango became known as a "must-see live" type of band. Much of the group's show is based around live improvisation, and attempting to convey this energy and passion to an album has proved troublesome for many bands tagged with this phrase; however, the band's much anticipated debut release Groggy Mountain Mornings is a pr
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Composer Stephane Wrembel hits the road this winter - bringing his jaw dropping talent, palpable musical rapport with His Band, and vivid and textured compositions to life on theatre stages along the east coast and Midwest. His current list of tour dates is included below, with more being added each week.Parisian born Wrembel - whose music embraces all styles and influence to create a truly signature sound - is being hailed as one of the world’s most dynamic and inspired players out there today.
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Tickets are on sale now for Thunder on the Mountain country music festival.
Like the Universe, the passage of time, works in mysterious ways. Depending on perspective, it can seem to expand or contract, turning years into months, months into weeks and weeks into days - or days into weeks into months into years.
For the creation of “Weeks to Days”, the second album by Bay Area band T.V. Mike and the Scarecrowes, it did both simultaneously and named the album in the process – or did the process somehow do the naming? A case could really be made for both sides...
