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Monday, November 2nd, 2009
Barred for Life is a forthcoming book documenting Black Flag related tattoos. To get information for the book a group of folks are touring the US to interview and photograph people with Black Flag tattoos. They’ll be at 3 Kings Tavern on November 9th if you want to participate! From their website, “The purpose of this book is to document a growing trend in an entire generation of people rallying around an image that seems to project a lot of good energy. The Bars have all but transcended the band, Black Flag, and are now this point of reference; a statement that you are a punk and that you have some pretty fucking high ideals for living in this nightmare we call modern life.” Check out their website for lots more information.
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Thursday, August 13th, 2009
Tune into the Local Shakedown THIS Friday for an interview with Liz from Denver’s space-pop band Sonnenblume. She’ll be playing some tracks from their new album and talking about their CD release show Saturday night at the Hi-Dive with Gangcharger, Blue Million Miles, and Overcasters. See you on the airwaves at 4 PM!
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Tuesday, August 4th, 2009
Do you know the Bocumast record label? They are one of my favorite sources for local music. Today they put out two brand new releases that are available for FREE on their website! Click on the pictures for direct links to download them…
“Free Radicalz!” is the work of Thundercade aka Ryan from BDRMPPL. Booty beats and electronics.
“Opened Captioning” is the work of Yawntron aka Shane from Wire Faces and Tom from Iuengliss. Like an electronic version of Hella, but even crazier.
And if you want MORE free, local music to download, check out the Gypsy Cab Co.’s new CD. They are a group of high schoolers from Denver who came together over their mutual love of the Black Lips. They may be young, but they are pros at writing catchy garage songs. They’ll also be playing a live set on Under the Mattress on August 16th!
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Monday, May 4th, 2009
A bit ago I mentioned the upcoming Titwrench festival. This weekend they’re throwing an awesome party to raise money for the event!
ALL AGES!
FOOD by BEETBOX!
5 DJs!
photobooth!
BYOB!
starts at 10 goes LATE
This is the main fundraiser for TITWRENCH 2009!
TITWRENCH is a women-centered underground music and art festival happening in DENVER COLORADO JULY 24/25/26
INFO:
http://www.myspace.com/titwrenchfest
email:
titwrench@gmail.com
w/questions!
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Saturday, May 2nd, 2009
I finally got to see Houses at the Hi-Dive last night, a local supergroup who everyone has been talking about lately. They were really awesome live, probably helped by the fact that there were 8 people on stage. There seems to be a direct correlation between number of band members and amount of fun had on stage. I was also happy to see Lance there from The Flat Response recording the show. He puts up tons of live recordings of local and national bands on his site that all sound great. One of 1190’s favorites right now, Cryptacize, have three different show up there and there’s also a few older shows from Houses so you can experience them live yourself. Lance has put together an incredible resource for great music, be sure to check it out!
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Thursday, April 30th, 2009
I was very excited to hear today that local band Lilium is releasing new material. Here’s the info straight from the band:
We are excited to announce that we just finished mixing our new album called “Felt”, ten songs featuring our good friends, Hugo Race, Kal Cahoone, Vicky Brown, Xian Lechevretel, Thomas Belhom (Tindersticks), Vassili Caillosse (Santa Cruz) & Marta Collica (John Parish).
Of course we will keep you posted with the release infos very soon. In the meantime please enjoy this first song called “Her man as run”. Thank you so much for your constant support.
Lilium was started by Pascal Humbert, the bass player of 16 Horsepower. The first Lilium album, Transmission of All the Good-byes, came out in 2000 on Glitterhouse Records. You can go here to check out an interview that Pascal did in October 2000 on the Local Shakedown.
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Friday, April 24th, 2009
There’s an awesome event going on at the Denver Art Museum tonight. It’s Untitled #20 – an event of live music, collaborative art and more centered around the “Psychedelic Experience” exhibit up now at the musuem. It’s from 6-10 PM at the DAM. Our own Ed from Under the Mattress will be there DJing along with DA from Wax Trax and Eddie B from Sputnik! There will also be a poster screening station, remastered 60’s fashion on display, and performances from local bands including Sweet Tooth Meat Tooth, Mike Marchant and Rob Drabkin. Sounds like lots of fun! The Untitled events happened a lot last year, but this is the first one of 2009. Don’t miss it!
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Friday, April 24th, 2009
The Westword Music Showcase is coming up on June 13th in Denver. Head over to their website to vote for your favorite local bands in 29 different categories!
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Thursday, April 23rd, 2009
Jessi from the morning show did a great interview with Hutch from The Thermals. Listen in at 2:00pm on Friday to hear it. They’ll be playing at the Marquis later that night with Shaky Hands.
Local hardcore band Crack Magik will be coming into the Local Shakedown on Friday from 4-6 to play a live set and spin some records. They seem to be rather unknown right now around Denver, but they’re one of my favorites! They’re super excited about this also, it should be lots of fun.
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Tuesday, April 21st, 2009
Charles and Mikey wrote about their favorite vinyl finds, and here’s mine!
Soul Merchants “Gates of Heaven” [Iron Gate Records, 1986]
You can imagine that I always love finding old local albums in record stores (I do the Local Shakedown!). I actually had Andrew Novick on my show in February and he brought in this record to play and then I found it at Bart’s two weeks later! These guys were a gothic post-punk band around for only 2 years in the 80s. You can instantly see their goth influence looking at the album art – the album sides are named Death and Life and the band members are photographed in all-black outfits in a cemetery. I believe legendary producer Bob Ferbrache recorded the album and also played keyboards on it. I’ll be sure to bring it in for my vinyl day slot tomorrow from 1-2 pm. Tune in!
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