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Slow Caves falling
Ryan Murphy
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Slow Caves didn’t waste any time making an impression on Colorado music listeners. In 2015 — well before they could legally buy a beer at the bar just across the room — the Fort Collins-bred act unleashed a fit of youthful exuberance upon an unsuspecting Underground Music Showcase audience so powerful they broke the tiny Irish Rover stage, immediately cementing their place among an exciting new generation of local performers. In the years that followed, they would release two EPs, Slow Caves and Desert Minded, demonstrating not just a knack for performative mayhem, but also a precocious adroitness for layering unconventionally satisfying, key-defying melodies atop their raucous mid-tempo march. On March 22, Slow Caves will release their long-awaited debut full-length, falling, on Cincinnati’s Old Flame records—an elevensong suite of the chillest rightcrosses to the thorax you will find committed to wax in 2019. Brothers Jakob and Oliver Mueller split lead vocals throughout; but like their previous releases, the album’s most arresting moments occur when the two combine Zords to take on soaring
choruses, coalescing their croons and yelps into a mighty hero that vanquishes all comers. With the help of Austin-based producer, Chris “Frenchie” Smith (... And You Will Know Us by The Trail Of Dead, Toadies, Meat Puppets), Slow Caves finds itself at its most instrumentally adventurous, dabbling with supplementary synths and strings, and scaling down at the album’s delicate acoustic midpoint, “Andy Warhol,” before gearing up for the record’s powerful second act. falling isn’t a significant deviation from the sound fans of Slow Caves have come to love, but it’s a notable milestone in their growth and subtle reminder of how much potential this still-young band has yet to tap. Slow Caves will celebrate the release of falling on March 23 at Denver’s Globe Hall with One Flew West and Seattle’s Gastalt.
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while the intimacy of “When I’m Grown” contrasts the oddball “Heart Still Beating,” which asks: “Got a real hot body and a bunch of pets. Why won’t they call me? We could make out over a couple of steaks...” Like a mash-up fringe notables like They Might Be Giants and Morphine, Trash Cat keep the listener grinning throughout their loveable, cartoon-inspired debut, reminding us that the best parties are weird, open and judgement-free:
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Iron Maiden, all before a single lyric is sung. “Bisonar” then takes it’s elements of doom to a completely new level with long, drawn out notes that accompany death metal vocals delivered in a style reminiscent of Behemoth’s Nergal. The
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Call of Cthulhu back in 1928, one could scour the earth in search for a worthy soundtrack and still come up short. However, nearly a century later, deep beneath the layers of The Choice City’s floppy hats and mandolins, Fort Collins’ Triton has answered the call. Upon first glance, the Lovecraftian cover art of Triton’s latest EP The Abyss suggests something dark and dangerous lurking inside, which is precisely what awaits. The record’s opening track “Bisonar” begins with an atmosphere of thunderstorms and eerie, backmasked dialogue, as if the listener has found him or herself on the ship depicted on the cover heading straight to their demise. The track then heads on a sonic journey from stoner doom riffs, to mid-tempo thrash, to guitar
successfully ventures into territories of stoner staples such as Kyuss and Wino, while incorporating elements of thrash likened to early Metallica. Nic Federle and Ryan Gray’s guitar work matches Kirk Hammett’s wah-drenched solo style circa 1983 on this one, spicing in a little Randy Rhoads at the end for flavor. Though
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“You have to have a lot of passion to be a tribute band and that’s not a problem for me with Queen.” - Gary Mullen
Every time Gary Mullen sings, he says grace. When he sings, he sounds like Freddie Mercury. Mercury is, arguably, the greatest male singer in rock’s long and distinguished history. But Mullen doesn’t have to do much to sound like him. He just has to sing. When he sang for a heavy metal band he put together many years ago (before he started a career singing as Mercury) people would tell him the band sounded like Freddie Mercury singing Black Sabbath. His uncanny ability to sing like Mercury gave him a nice career as the frontman for One Night of Queen, a tribute to one of the greatest bands in history, one recently portrayed in the Oscar nominated 2018 film Bohemian Rhapsody. “I don’t hear what other people hear,” Mullen said in a phone interview. “My voice is my voice. Luckily, people hear Freddie. I am so blessed to be able to do this.” Mullen started nearly 20 years ago, when his wife and mother secretly applied to the Granada TV show Stars in Their Eyes. Mullen sang Queen and set the all-time record for votes on the show. He began performing and formed his band The Works in 2002. The band now plays 150 shows a year in many different countries and will play in
Greeley on March 8 at the Union Colony Civic Center in downtown Greeley. These days, tribute bands perform everywhere, and the best can make a nice living doing Van Halen, Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath among many others. But back in the early 2000s, tribute bands were not only unknown, they were misunderstood. In the UK, where Mullen grew up and began his career, fans equated tribute bands with cheesy lounge acts. “There’s a stigma to it in the UK,” Mullen said before launching into an imitation of a half-drunk lounge singer. “But what we do is a rock concert. We try to create a moment in time, and in America, people totally get it.” Well, we didn’t get it right away. Mullen said when his band began touring in America a decade ago, they started in performance halls, much like the UCCC in Greeley. Americans were confused at first. “They were saying, ‘What is this? Is it a play?’” Mullen said. “But they quickly understood it was a rock concert, and it took off, and other tribute acts followed. We showed that you could play performing arts centers as a tribute act.” Mullen is proud to have blazed that path for other tribute bands. He hears from other Queen tributes that are playing Vegas. He’s not just a cover bar band, after all. His band looks like Queen. His guitarist plays the same
red model that Brian May uses. Mullen acts like Mercury and loves to interact with the crowd the same way. He even moves like him, which isn’t hard, he said, because he’s danced like Mercury since he was 4, when he first saw Queen on TV and was blown away. “If you go to a Michael Jackson tribute and he doesn’t moonwalk, you’d feel cheated,” Mullen said. But there are limits to the imitation. Mullen said Stars In Their Eyes made a set of prosthetic teeth for him so he could look even more like Mercury, who was known for his toothy smile as much the pipes behind it. “I wore them to the show, but I couldn’t sing with them,” Mullen said. “It was horrendous. I never used them after that. I think I have them in my attic somewhere.” Queen remains Mullen’s favorite band. He still listens to them, and when he went to see Bohemian Rhapsody – twice – he went as a fan, not a performer. He was his 13-year-old self watching Queen, he said. “You have to have a lot of passion to be a tribute band,” Mullen said, “and that’s not a problem for me with Queen. You simply can’t not enjoy it.” Gary Mullen And The Works present: One Night of Queen will play at 7:30 March 8 at the Union Colony Civic Center, 701 10th Ave. in Downtown Greeley. Go to ucstars.com or call (970) 356-5000 for tickets.
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These days, Andy McKee says many of the things you’d expect to hear from a guy with two kids approaching age 40. He’s worried about social media, especially the fact that it discourages face-to-face communication. When he’s at home, he’d rather hang out with his family than be in front of a computer. He’d also much rather listen to a song with a good melody than some technically brilliant guitarist showing off a new style. That’s the funny thing about turning 40: You find yourself a different person than you were at 27, and McKee may be the best example of those contradictions. Social media, after all, gave him a career as an acoustic guitar wizard. In 2005, McKee was a guitar teacher in Topeka, Kansas. A couple players he respected who shared an acoustic guitar label suggested he put a few videos online. So he filmed a half-dozen videos showing off the crazy way he played guitar, releasing them once a month on a strange new platform called YouTube. McKee’s technical brilliance, so unique that many had never seen it before, went viral (a new term at the time), earning him millions of views in just a few weeks. It wasn’t long before people wanted him to play – in person – around the world. This was far more than McKee ever expected, though he knew after picking up a guitar at age 14 that he wanted to have a career in music. He loved guitardriven metal bands like Metallica, asking his guitar teacher if he could learn “Enter Sandman,” but he wanted to play guitar because of Eric Johnson, the instrumental guitarist known for “Cliffs of Dover.”
McKee connected with the melodies Johnson played much more than he did with song lyrics. Then, when he was 17, he heard his first acoustic guitar album, and, as McKee put it, it was a flip of the switch. “They were doing stuff I didn’t know was possible,” McKee said in a phone interview for BandWagon. “I thought the acoustic guitar was just for strumming along to campfire songs.” His emulation of those techniques morphed into his own “moves” that others didn’t know were possible. “I think most guitar players are like that,” he said. “They take inspiration and come up with their own things to go with it, ending up with something unique. People weren’t doing that stuff, especially in Kansas. I was just trying to problemsolve on how to play a song, and wound up developing my own thing.” “I didn’t know if I would be anything but a teacher, but I did enjoy performing and was hoping to have some sort of career,” McKee said. “The level that it happened so quickly really took me by surprise.” He’s since released a half-dozen albums and performed in 45 countries globally, turning his steel-string guitar into an orchestra with his use of altered tunings and stunning, percussive two-handed tapping technique. But these days, McKee focuses more on songwriting than technical brilliance. A song he writes has to speak to him in the same way Johnson’s music spoke to him, inspiring him to pick up a guitar. If it doesn’t, he works on it until it does.
“Just because you are a great guitar player doesn’t mean you’re a great songwriter,” McKee said. “I originally wanted to do fancy guitar work, but that’s just not as interesting to me anymore. I’m interested in a good piece of music.” He is, in fact, still surprised at the emails he gets from fans about his music and not about his jaw-dropping ability: brides walking down the aisle to his song, his music being played at a funeral, or even fans naming their child after one of his tunes. Even so, when he performs, he always includes something that shows off his skills as one of the world’s best acoustic guitar masters, including his 57 million view YouTube hit, “Drifting.” He knows he has fans because of his technique and that his current career wouldn’t exist without social media. But he hasn’t posted a video on YouTube in…well, he can’t remember when. He’s focused on making the best music he can rather than developing the next crazy guitar technique. He’s even working on a new album with 80s rock guitar and synth sounds set for release later this year. He’s not sure how his fans will take it, but recently, he went back to social media to find out, posting samples on his Instagram account. “People seem to be digging it on social media,” McKee said with a laugh. “I’m happy about that.” Andy Mckee performs March 8 at the Moxi Theater in Greeley with Ben Pu. Go to moxitheater.com for tickets.
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Jeremy Grant listens to the same songs for many nights of the year. It’s his job. These songs are, by many accounts, jam band music, but Grant admits he doesn’t even really like jam bands. Regardless, the 40-year-old Greeley native is the monitor engineer and stage manager for Leftover Salmon, one of the most celebrated jam bands around. If this sounds about as boring a job as licking stamps for a living, think again. Grant loves and appreciates it. Leftover Salmon is one of the most successful jam bands in the world. He’d probably like it even without the obvious perks. “They’re super-talented guys,” Grant said. “It’s really fun working with them. They’re super nice, and they’re worldclass musicians.” It’s Grant’s job to ensure the band sounds great on stage, and while that’s up to the musicians, it’s up to him too – more than you might think. When the balance is off, the guitar amps are too loud, the drummer sounds like he’s hitting a tin can or the singer’s mic is out, it’s his job to fix that. “There’s a lot of things that can go wrong,” Grant said, “and they always do. You learn how to troubleshoot really fast.” Grant got a fouryear degree from the University of ColoradoDenver, but like many sound guys, he had to start
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When you’re running a club it can get pretty intense. There’s a lot of things that can go wrong, and they always do.
the hard way: in clubs with a different band every night, using equipment that’s better suited for a garage than a venue. Leftover Salmon, by comparison, is cake. “When you’re running a club, you’re going five nights a week,” Grant said. “It can get pretty intense. But when you’re with a band, you know the sound, you know the guys, and you know the songs. It’s pretty easy, and Leftover Salmon is big enough that they play in pretty nice places wherever you go.” Grant got his start in 2001 helping bandmate Colin Bricker with his audio business (Mighty Fine Productions) and playing with Damon Smith, the guy who founded My Favorite Bands. His first sound gig was at a salsa club in Denver with an 11-piece band. A tough gig that taught him the ropes. “The downbeat was the time to start mixing,” Grant said, which is equivalent of having to finish cooking an 11 course meal after it’s on the table in front of hundreds of hungry salsa fans. These days, Leftover Salmon doesn’t tour extensively, which Grant likes. He flies to weekend gigs and festivals – cushy ones, mostly, including a recent week-long cruise featuring jam bands, a soldout show last month at the stunning new Washington’s
in Fort Collins and the super fancy Boogie At The Broadmoor Hotel coming up March 22 - 24. It’s a safer job too. A decade ago, a patron punched a window after he was kicked out of the club where Grant was working, and a piece of the shattered glass flew into his eye. An eye surgeon in Fort Collins (one of the best in the world) told Grant he probably couldn’t save his eye, but amazingly did after two surgeries sewing the cornea back together – as delicate a job as sewing a gashed grape. You’d think the job would be harder on the ears than eyes, but Grant had a pair of ear plugs professionally molded to fit his ears, and he carries them with him constantly, even to get coffee. Grant still occasionally works for Hodi’s Half Note in Fort Collins as Production Manager when he’s off the road. He makes a comfortable enough living between that and Leftover Salmon for his wife and three kids, especially with
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his wife Brandie’s income as a labor and delivery nurse. A Dylan fan, Grant appreciates song structure, lyrics and choruses. Sometimes it seems like jam bands don’t play any of that. Ironically, that’s why he loves his Leftover Salmon job: Every show is different. Not only does the band improvise over the songs, they change things up, extend the song and invite guests on stage, keeping Grant alert. When guests appear, he has to run up and make sure the equipment will work. “Everywhere they go there’s a guest,” Grant said. “They’re very spontaneous, which is entertaining.” For a sound guy it’s even a blessing. Recently attending two nights of Tom Petty shows, he noticed that Petty played the exact same set both nights. That’s definitely not what being the sound guy for Leftover Salmon is about. It’s about jamming, man, and Grant is a fan, at least of his own bosses. “Every night is a different experience,” he grinned.
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Kyle Morris was driving around remarked Morris. Despite not Los Angeles, heading to a meeting making their originally intended with the next producer on his list. record, the band were still proud of Weaving through traffic, taking on these older songs, finding the online each freeway one at time, the city singles a perfect format to continue was like a treasure map, where the engaging their fans. With each proper EP, they’ve ‘X’ that marks the spot would be his brought on a new flavor to their next business partner, bringing his music a new perspective and twist. song writing, picking a band or a The catch, of course, is he had no mood they were attached to in the idea what that would be like until he moment. Despite being self produced, their got there. Since their beginnings, The first two EPs Follow My Feet (2013) Unlikely Candidates have toyed and Bed of Liars (2017), are very around with a slew of different distinct in the aesthetic they project. sounds. Despite charting more Follow My Feet brought a more than once in Billboard’s Alternative earthy, folksy influence with a heavily Rock category, The Fort Worth, acoustic sound, while Bed of Liars Texas quintet continue to seek out brings on almost hip-hop vibes with freshness. Now, with a ton of new its strong beats and groove-driven songs written, they are once again style. in search of another new sound for Their most recent EP, Danger To their first full-length album. Myself (2018), was the first time the “We’ve always band opened been influenced themselves “We’ve always by bands who up to been influenced weren’t stuck on one working with by bands who particular sound, a producer like The Beatles and (several, it weren’t stuck on one Blur,” Morris, lead turns out) particular sound” singer and founder who pulled of The Unlikely their music Candidates said in an interview with in yet another direction, giving it a BandWagon. “We’re searching for darker and riot-y sound that was, that new sound through trial and again, very different from their error.” previous releases. The songs are written, but The “Working with a producer made Unlikely Candidates are still on the our EP sound slick and polished, and hunt for that elusive new sound for gave us this grandiose sound,” said their upcoming full-length. But rather Morris. than keeping their fans waiting for Grandiose though they may be, their next project to drop, the band the band maintains a “garage band” has been satisfying their followers by style of writing, where everything slowly releasing singles over the past is created then-and-there in the few months. Unexpectedly, these moment. They play together and tracks are not alluding to their new experiment with different grooves album, nor hinting at any interim EP. and riffs until something sticks. The “We had so many songs back- more they keep at it, the better they cataloged from our previous EP,” become.
With 10 years as a group under their belt, Morris still believes heavily in their free-style approach. However, he has taken to coming prepared to writing sessions with loose ideas and moods that he can pull from while working through a song. “I read a lot of books and articles for inspiration, writing down ideas and phrases that really stick with me,” he says. With this process, Morris typically writes over a hundred hooks or choruses. Then, after 8 to 12 hours working with the band, The Unlikely Candidates have a new song. Now, as he drives the 101 freeway en route to his next producer meeting with a catalog of new music, he wonders what this next partnership and chapter will bring. Like the band’s writing style, it’s a process of trial and error, experimenting with different ideas until something really catches on. “We don’t know what this new sound will be,” Morris claims, but fans of The Unlikely Candidates can bet the new record’s unexpected freshness is anything but unlikely.
The Unlikely Candidates have 3 upcoming shows in Colorado, culminating at the Moxi Theater in Greeley on Sunday, March 3rd.
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CONCERT CALENDAR
Friday, March 1st Allegaeon @Moxi Theater – Greeley, 8pm w/ Draghoria, Killing Creation, Genocide Method Wood & Wire @Hodi’s Half Note – Ft. Collins, 8pm w/ Blue Grama
The Rare Sound Tour @Aggie Theatre – Ft. Collins, 7pm w/ Kent Washington, Shaun Mercier, Tjae Ty, Op & A’vyzion Eli Paperboy Reed @Washington’s – Ft. Collins, 6pm w/ Israel Nash, Dressy Bessy Samiam @Marquis Theater – Denver, 7pm w/ Iron Chic, Blackdots
Blueface @Aggie Theatre – Ft. Collins, 7pm Teenage Fanclub w/ Koolin K, Anville, Larry @Bluebird Theater – Denver, 8pm Legend, Devin Tremell w/ The Love Language SHEL @Washington’s – Ft. Collins, 6pm Lords of Acid @Gothic Theatre – Denver, 8pm w/ Tallgrass w/ Orgy, Genitorturers, Little Miss Nasty Brent Loveday & the Dirty Dollars G. Love & Special Sauce @Surfside7 – Ft. Collins, 9pm @Ogden Theatre – Denver, 8pm w/ Blood Belly w/ Ben Sparaco and The New Effect Smoking Popes @Marquis Theater – Denver, 7pm Superb Beats Collective Takeover @EKHO Lounge – Greeley, 8pm w/ Nerf Herder, Broken Record Donavon Frankenreiter @Bluebird Theater – Denver, 9pm w/ Brett Bigelow Cherry Glazer @Gothic Theatre – Denver, 8pm w/ Palehound, The Corner Girls Sodown @Ogden Theatre – Denver, 9pm w/ Defunk, Cofresi, TruFeelz
Sunday, March 3rd The Unlikely Candidates @Moxi Theater – Greeley, 8pm w/ Silver & Gold, Pretty Awkward, The Bright Silence La Dame Blanche @Downtown Artery – Ft. Collins 7pm
Luigi OG: Rebirth Tour @EKHO Lounge – Greeley, 8pm
Samiam @Surfside7 – Ft. Collins, 9pm w/ Iron Chic, Blackdots
Saturday, March 2nd
Monday, March 4th
Charlie Farley @Moxi Theater – Greeley, 8pm w/ Long Cut, Kylie Mac
UNC Jazz Thang @Moxi Theater – Greeley, 7pm
Defunk @Hodi’s Half Note – Ft. Collins, 8pm w/ Jimeni, Beyond Existence, Comisar
You Me At Six @Marquis Theater – Denver, 7pm w/ Dreamers, Machineheart
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Ward Davis Thursday, March 7th at Moxi Theater in Greeley
Vanessa Silberman Rock Band @Surfside7 – Ft. Collins, 9pm w/ Carissa Johnson, Shake Me//Wake Me Albert Hammond Jr. @Bluebird Theater – Denver, 8pm w/ In The Valley Below Daughters @Gothic Theatre – Denver, 8pm w/ Gouge Away, HIDE
Wednesday, March 6th Judah Friedlander @Aggie Theatre – Ft. Collins, 8pm Noname @Ogden Theatre – Denver, 8pm w/ Elton
Thursday, March 7th Ward Davis @Moxi Theater – Greeley, 8pm An Evening with That 1 Guy @Hodi’s Half Note – Ft. Collins, 8pm Yheti @Aggie Theatre – 8pm w/ NastyNasty, Sfam Tyler Lee and the Ragers @Marquis Theater – Denver, 7pm w/ Violet’s Gun, Sonder Ensemble, Generation Nomad The Widow’s Bane @Bluebird Theater – Denver, 8pm w/ Lost Walks
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XQ Super School Live @Ogden Theatre – Denver, 7pm
Friday, March 8th Andy Mckee @Moxi Theater – Greeley, 8pm w/ Ben Pu Haywyre @Hodi’s Half Note – Ft. Collins, 8pm w/Jenaux, Balkan Bump Who Has The Favor hosted by Trev Rich @Marquis Theater – Denver, 7pm w/ Mike Minded, YB Zanotti, Coasta Jamey Johnson @Summit – Denver, 8pm Jonathan Wilson @Bluebird Theater – Denver, 9pm Cosmic Gate @Gothic Theatre – Denver, 8pm w/ Grum, Sergio Santana Desert Hearts Takeover @Ogden Theatre – Denver, 8pm w/ Mikey Lion, Lee Reynolds, Marbs A Trip to the Moon @EKHO Lounge – Greeley, 8pm w/ True Apollo and friends One Night of Queen @UCCC – Greeley, 8pm
Saturday, March 9th The Grass Is Dead @Hodi’s Half Note – Ft. Collins, 8pm
w/ Kind Country Bad Suns @Aggie Theatre – Ft. Collins, 8pm w/ Vista Kicks And The Kids @Downtown Artery – Ft. Collins, 8pm Stephen Marley Acoustic @Washington’s – Ft. Collins, 6pm Max Frost @Marquis Theater – Denver, 7pm w/ Mikey Mike, UPSAHL Crumb @Moon Room – Denver, 7pm w/ Loving
Bad Suns Saturday, March 9th @ Aggie Theatre in Ft. Collins
Lorelei K
@Bluebird Theater – Denver, 8pm
Haywyre @Bluebird – Denver, 9pm w/ Jenaux, K+Lab
Monday, March 11th
Friday, March 15th
Jacob Banks @Ogden Theatre w/ABIR, Moonglade
Murderburgers @Surfside7 – Ft. Collins, 9pm w/ Get Married, Came & Took It
Jackopierce @Moxi Theater – Greeley, 8pm
KMG Takeover @EKHO Lounge – Greeley, 8pm
Within Temptation @Summit – Denver, 7pm w/ In Flames, Smash Into Pieces
The National Parks @The Rialto Theater – Loveland, 8pm
Sunday, March 10th Getter Presents: Visceral @Aggie Theatre – Ft. Collins, 7pm Weathers @Marquis Theater – Denver, 7pm w/ Overstreet, Ariana & The Rose, The Midnight Club King Of The City Streets Most Wanted Showcase @Moon Room – Denver, 7pm w/ Big Heff, Stimulus, Bullet Karodiny The Sound of Animals Fighting @Ogden Theatre – Denver, 8pm w/ Planes Mistaken For Stars,
Tuesday, March 12th Mike Doughty @Bluebird Theater – Denver, 8pm w/ Wheatus
Thursday, March 14th GT Garza @Hodi’s Half Note – Ft. Collins, 7pm FoCo Fire and Ice - Dead Floyd @Aggie Theatre – Ft. Collins, 8pm w/ Hayley Jane and the Primates Black Magic Flower Power @Surfside7 – Ft. Collins, 9pm w/ Magic Cyclops, Sick Trick Darlingside
Charlesthefirst @Ogden Theatre – Denver, 8pm w/ Tsuruda, Of The Trees, Abelation, Dillard Ladysmith Black Mambazo @The Lincoln Center – Ft. Collins, 8pm
FoCo Fire and Ice - Dead Floyd @Hodi’s Half Note – Ft. Collins, 8pm w/ Amorphic
Saturday, March 16th
The Floozies @Aggie Theatre – Ft. Collins, 8pm w/ Tnertle and Gibbz
The Stubby Shillelaghs @Moxi Theater – Greeley, 8pm w/ Caroline Schaff
Saints of Never After @Surfside7 – Ft. Collins, 9pm w/ Autumn Burn, UnEarnest Apologies, Sorry Sweetheart
Shovelin Stone @Hodi’s Half Note – Ft. Collins, 8pm w/ Write Minded
Arrested Youth @Marquis Theater – Denver 7pm w/ CITRA, HoldFast 1000 Miles of Fire @Moon Room – Denver, 8pm w/ Why They Fight, Creature Canopy, Stray The Course
The Expendables - Winter Blackout Tour @Aggie Theatre – Ft. Collins, 7pm w/ Ballyhoo!, KASH’D Out, P-Nuckle Bad Girl Burlesque @Marquis Theater – Denver, 7pm
Chelsea Cutler @Bluebird Theater – Denver, 9pm
Tnertle @Bluebird Theater – Denver, 8pm w/ MIDIcinal, Collidoscope, Avry
Meadow Mountain @Gothic Theatre – Denver, 8pm w/ Avenhart, The Lonesome Days
The Suicide Machines @Gothic Theatre – Denver, 8pm
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w/ Potato Pirates, Over Time, No Takers Madolin Orange @Ogden Theatre – Denver, 8pm w/ Martha Scanlan Adam Agee & Jon Sousa @The Rialto – Loveland, 8pm
Sunday, March 17th The People Brothers Band @Hodi’s Half Note – Ft. Collins, 8pm w/ Home Fried Boogaloo Doc Rotten @Surfside7 – Ft. Collins, 9pm w/ Bad Decisions
Monday, March 18th Night Beats @Surfside7 – Ft. Collins, 9pm Shing02 @Marquis Theater – Denver, 7pm w/ Secret Dog, Spin Master A-1 State Champs @Summit – Denver, 7pm
State Champs Monday March 18th, 2019 at Summit in Denver.
w/ Our Last Night, The Dangerous Summer, Grayscale
@Summit – Denver, 7pm w/ Kilo Kish, Helena Deland
Vince Staples @Ogden Theatre – Denver, 8pm w/ JPEGMAFIA, Trill Sammy
Bronze Radio Return @Bluebird Theater – Denver, 9pm w/ Wildermiss
Tuesday, March 19th
Mt. Joy @Gothic Theatre – Denver, 8pm w/ Wilderado, Whitacre
The Black Queen @Marquis Theater – Denver, 7pm w/ Uniform, SRSQ Wet
@Hodi’s Half Note – Ft. Collins, 8pm Rubblebucket @Aggie Theatre – Ft. Collins, 8pm w/ Twain Sultan @Surfside7 – Ft. Collins, 9pm w/ Necromancer
Wednesday, March 20th
Donna Missal @Marquis Theater – Denver, 7pm w/ Samia
Toubab Krewe
Royal Coda
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@Moon Room – Denver, 7pm w/ Kurt Travis, Body Thief Better Oblivion Community Center @Gothic Theatre – Denver, 8pm w/ Lala Lala, Christian Lee Hutson UNC Orchestra @UCCC – Greeley, 8pm
Thursday, March 21st Black Uhuru @Moxi Theater – Greeley, 8pm w/ Irieoso, MountainUs Cream Cheese Accident (SCI Tribute) @Hodi’s Half Note – Ft. Collins, 8pm Zach Deputy @Aggie Theatre – Ft. Collins, 8pm w/ A-Mac & The Height Bad Bad Hats @Marquis Theater – Denver, 7pm w/ Oxeye Daisy, The Ophelias Balance And Composure @Summit – Denver, 7pm w/ mewithoutYou, Tigers Jaw Arkells @Bluebird Theater – Denver, 9pm w/ Dear Rogue The Bright Light Social Hour @Gothic Theatre – Denver, 8pm w/ Rubedo, Other Worlds
Friday, March 22nd Con Brio @Hodi’s Half Note – Ft. Collins, 8pm w/ Dirty Revival
Phutureprimitive @Aggie Theatre – Ft. Collins, 8pm w/ Plantrae, Edamame, Mumukshu Postcards @Marquis Theater – Denver, 7pm w/ Finding Common Ground, Contender, Pythalo Children Of Bodom @Summit – Denver, 6pm w/ Wolfheart, Swallow the Sun, Hollow Cry Droeloe @Bluebird Theater – Denver, 8pm w/ Fytch, Tails Zach Deputy @Gothic Theatre – Denver, 8pm w/ The Elegant Plums Matoma @Ogden Theatre – Denver, 8pm w/ Griffin Stoller
Saturday, March 23rd Infinite Conscious @Moxi Theater – Greeley, 8pm w/ Triton, Pathos & Logos, Pushstone Juno What?! @Hodi’s Half Note – Ft. Collins, 8pm w/ The Great Salmon Famine MarchFourth @Aggie Theatre – Ft. Collins, 8pm w/ Ponder the Albatross Party Pupils @Marquis Theater – Denver, 7pm w/ Pat Lok, Jaguar Nights Holocene Hills @Moon Room – Denver, 8pm
infinite Conscious Saturday March 23rd @ Moxi Theater in Greeley
w/ The Backseaters, Wolf Pact, Stepdad Rio Ripe @Bluebird Theater – Denver, 9pm w/ Waker Graveyard and Uncle Acid & The Deadbeats @Ogden Theatre –Denver, 8pm w/ Demob Happy
Sunday, March 24th Aborted @Marquis Theater – Denver, 7pm w/ Cryptopsy, Benighted, Hideous Divinity
Blaqk Audio @Bluebird Theater – Denver, 9pm w/ Silent Rival Howard Jones Acoustic Trio @The Lincoln Center – Ft. Collins, 8pm Liz Phair @Ogden Theatre – Denver, 8pm w/ Califone
Monday, March 25th Boyce Avenue @Gothic Theatre – Denver, 8pm
Tuesday, March 26th
Bob Ross Mob Boss @SurfSide7 – Ft. Collins – 9pm w/ TV Boy Copeland @Bluebird Theater – Denver, 8pm w/ From Indian Lakes, Many Rooms
Wednesday, March 27th Pacific Dub @Hodi’s Half Note – Ft. Collins, 8pm w/ Tyrone’s Jacket, Seranation
@SurfSide7 – Ft. Collins, 9pm w/ Chess at Breakfast, The Beeves Sister Sparrows and The Dirty Birds @Bluebird Theater – Denver, 8pm
Friday, March 29th Wayne ‘The Train’ Hancock @Moxi Theater – Greeley, 8pm w/ Halden Wofford & The Hi*Beams, The Loose Nuts
The Spillionairs @Bluebird Theater – Denver, 8pm
PROF @Aggie Theatre – Ft. Collins, 8pm w/ Mac Irv, Cashinova, Willie Wonka and Special Guests
Deafhaven / Baroness @Ogden Theatre – Denver, 8pm w/ Zeal & Ardor
The Last Revel @Downtown Artery – Ft. Collins, 8pm w/ Wolf Van Elfmand, Luke Callen
Thursday, March 28th
Ozomatli @Washington’s – Ft. Collins, 6pm w/ iZCALLi
Southern Avenue @Moxi Theater – Greeley, 8pm Phish Thursdays @Hodi’s Half Note – Ft. Collins, 8pm w/ Phour Point O North By North
Kessel Run @Marquis Theater – Denver, 8pm w/ Boogie Mammoth, Dog City Disco JD Mcpherson @Bluebird Theater – Denver, 8pm w/ JP Harris
jd McPherson Saturday, March 30th at Washington’s in Fort Collins
Saturday, March 30th Seckond Chaynce @Moxi Theater – Greeley, 8pm w/ DJ Strizzo, Long Cut Comedy Showcase @Hodi’s Half Note – Ft. Collins, 6pm w/ Justin Smith, Allison Rose, Justin Going
SOB X RBE - Strictly Only Brothers Tour @Aggie Theatre – Ft. Collins, 8pm w/ Sneakk, Peacoat Gang JD McPherson @Washington’s – Ft. Collins, 6pm w/ JP Harris Teenage Bottlerocket
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