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Album release show marathon begins tonight

Bill Forman — Fri, 17 May 2013 16:44:25 -0600

The weekend is upon us, and with it three worthy CD release shows from local artists.

Tonight, local hip-hop collective Bullhead*ded is celebrating the release of its long-awaited debut album, 4Play, at the Black Sheep.…

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Joey Diamond lives the dream

Bill Forman — Thu, 16 May 2013 18:05:46 -0600

Good news: Joey Diamond is coming to Colorado Springs!

Now if that sentence didn't trigger an endorphin rush, it may well be that you don’t belong to a certain demographic, the same one that’s hormonally predisposed to worship Justin Bieber.…
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Guthrie, Helm and Croce set for local summer shows

Bill Forman — Wed, 15 May 2013 17:57:18 -0600

Granted, Colorado Springs doesn’t always get the best-known musicians coming through, but we’ll soon be getting a lot of their offspring. In a genuinely odd coincidence, at least three of them have been booked so far to perform here this summer.…
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Raising Capital Cities

Bill Forman — Wed, 15 May 2013 04:00:00 -0600
The 'best band in Los Angeles' scores with its 'Safe and Sound' single by Bill Forman If any new band is positioned to pull ahead of the pack this summer, it's Capital Cities. The electro-pop outfit's debut album isn't out until next month, but its highly infectious single, "Safe and Sound," recently reached No. 1 in Germany and has gotten constant airplay on L.A.'s influential alt-rock station KROQ.…
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Summer musical festivals

Bill Forman — Wed, 15 May 2013 04:00:00 -0600
Your guide to the Pikes Peak region's finest by Bill Forman Since souvenir program books only go back so far on eBay, cultural historians really have no scientific way of proving when the first music festivals actually took place. The conventional wisdom is that the earliest versions of festivals like Coachella and Lollapalooza took place more than 2,500 years ago, back when Greek musicians were kicking out the jams on lyres and pan flutes during ancient Olympic Games celebrations.…
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Opeth's art of metal

L. Kent Wolgamott — Wed, 15 May 2013 04:00:00 -0600
Swedish heavyweights say goodbye to genre conventions by L. Kent Wolgamott It's been well over a year and a half since Opeth released its last album, Heritage, during which Sweden's best-loved progressive death-metal band has been touring more or less non-stop throughout North America, Europe, South America, Japan, Turkey and India. Now the group is finally ready to go back in the studio — but not before one more U.S. tour.…
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Leaders of Springs Public Market project look to 2015

Matthew Schniper — Fri, 10 May 2013 12:22:00 -0600

The task force for the Colorado Springs Public Market project, which we last updated you on here, hosted a community meeting last night in the Tim Gill Center for Public Media.

To begin a brief recap with the highlight, check out the group's slick new promotional video:

And here's both sides of an informational flier provided: 3174_001.pdf 3173_001.pdf

The main thrust of the evening, aside from the steering committee providing more info on next steps and the overall vision, was to call for community support in the form of networking (first by signing up for the market's newsletter), helping develop the right vendors —"we're sure you won't be able to buy a Taco Bell product," joked Ranch Foods Direct head Mike Callicrate — and of course, donating.…
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Five playful tigers at the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo

Bryce Crawford — Thu, 09 May 2013 16:54:00 -0600

Inspired by user grapeormelon's posting of a playful tiger at the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo to Colorado Springs' Reddit page, we collected a few other videos of the zoo's big kitties. There's something vaguely terrifying about watching them move — primal instincts, y'all — but we still can't get enough.…
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The Academy Ring Dance invite that should go viral

Kirsten Akens — Wed, 08 May 2013 12:59:09 -0600

This isn't about the cadet invite that already went viral and got a lot of national news this week.

Instead it's about the video invitation to attend the May 24 Air Force Academy Ring Dance, made by cadet Aileen Herrera to celeb Ellen DeGeneres.…
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Mane attraction: Tyler Gregory's look and sound echo a fading yesteryear

Chris Parker — Wed, 08 May 2013 04:00:00 -0600
by Chris Parker Just as Parks & Recreation star Adam Scott's probably tired of being congratulated on his Masters win, Kansas Americana artist Tyler Gregory would rather you not confuse him with Odd Future rapper/producer Tyler Gregory Okonma aka Tyler, the Creator. There's absolutely zero resemblance: One's an urbane Cali-based hip-hop impresario with his own TV show (Loiter Squad), clothing line and controversial Mountain Dew commercials.…
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Pueblo's East Coast Pizza eyes expansion under its pastry program's awesome power

Matthew Schniper — Wed, 08 May 2013 04:00:00 -0600
Holy Cannoli by Matthew Schniper When I first meet Salvatore Giacalone, the stout, 50-year-old Sicilian is wearing a huge smile over a bright red apron. In a very thick accent, broken English really, he's peddling a colorful array of pastries spanning the length of four folding tables under a banner for Pueblo's East Coast Pizza & Bakery.…
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Trapped in the matrix with Black Moth Super Rainbow

Chris Parker — Wed, 08 May 2013 04:00:00 -0600
Electronica nihilist Tom Fec snatches chaos from the jaws of victory by Chris Parker Fair warning: This may be your last chance to see Black Moth Super Rainbow. Tom Fec's decade-long psycho-experimentalist pop project is currently out on the road supporting Cobra Juicy, an album that sounds a lot like its title — fierce, strange and impossibly sweet.…
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Paramore picks up the pieces

Tom Lanham — Wed, 01 May 2013 04:00:00 -0600
Founding frontwoman Hayley Williams beats the odds and tops the charts. by Tom Lanham After being bullied so harshly by teenage classmates that her mother removed her from public school in favor of home schooling, Hayley Williams grew up unsure of herself. And even now at 24, the awkward youth who morphed into the fire-haired frontvixen for pop-punk outfit Paramore still has moments of uncertainty, where she wakes up and feels like she's back in mean-girl high all over again.…
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Barb Wire Dolls, Flobots and angels from Montgomery

Bill Forman — Wed, 01 May 2013 04:00:00 -0600
Reverb by Bill Forman According to my very scientific research, Barb Wire Dolls — who will play the Triple Nickel this coming Friday — are the only band that's been taken under the wings of both glam-rock KROQ personality Rodney Bingenheimer and grunge rock's best-known producer, Steve Albini. L.A.'s mop-topped "Mayor of Sunset Strip" caught on to the Greek band from its very beginning, bringing Barb Wire Dolls over here for a 2010 appearance on his "Rodney on the ROQ" show as well as a sold-out date at the famed Roxy Theatre.…
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IAMDYNAMITE daze

Brian Palmer — Wed, 01 May 2013 04:00:00 -0600
The Detroit rock duo has more fun than a barrel of Nietzsches. by Brian Palmer Christopher Martin, one-half of the rock 'n roll duo IAMDYNAMITE, wants to clear up any concern there may be over his band taking its name from a quote ("I am not a man, I am dynamite") by German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche. "We read a little bit on the road sometimes, but we're by no means super intellectual people or anything," Martin assures me. "I don't sit around reading all day long or anything."…
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Morse recall effort gets some help

Chet Hardin — Tue, 30 Apr 2013 17:06:00 -0600

It appears that the grassroots effort to recall Sen. John Morse has attracted some monied supporters.

We recently wrote about the Basic Freedom Defense Fund, the organization behind the statewide effort to recall a number of Democratic legislators in response to their votes on the gun bills, as well as the El Paso Freedom Defense Committee, its local offshoot.…
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Fun with electronica, skin-whiteners and death cults

Bill Forman — Mon, 29 Apr 2013 18:41:36 -0600

Assuming you haven’t been completely put off by viral marketing campaigns like Dove’s genuinely offensive “Real Beauty” ads — hey, there’s nothing like taking body-image advice from a company that sells skin-bleaching products in India — then you might want to check out the decidedly quirky campaign currently being run by Boards of Canada.

Actually, if there are any hardcore electronic music fans on your Facebook timeline, you probably have already seen their obsessive posts this week about “BOC,” which normal people would assume stands for Blue Oyster Cult.…
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Blues Under the Bridge unveils 2013 lineup

Bill Forman — Mon, 29 Apr 2013 17:37:00 -0600

In our recent cover story on music promoters (“Backstage Confidential,” March 27), Blues Under the Bridge promoter Amy Whitesell talked about her favorite headliner since the local festival started up six years ago. And that would of course be Koko Taylor, the legendary “Queen of the Blues” who co-headlined the 2008 festival and would pass away the following year.…
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Aquaponics abound: Help fund another farmer

Matthew Schniper — Mon, 29 Apr 2013 17:30:00 -0600

Are we seeing proof of the hive mind? Or just two entrepreneur types who have the same idea about how best to approach growing produce during drought times?

Last week I told you about the Ivywild Farm's Kickstarter campaign to raise $9,650 for a 40-tower aquaponic system.…
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iTunes gives pre-CD release show shoutout to Austin Young

Bill Forman — Fri, 26 Apr 2013 17:51:43 -0600

While the official CD release show at Stargazers isn't until this Saturday, Austin Young & No Difference's new album, Blue as Can Be, is already getting some serious attention out there in the real world.

The album has just been added to iTunes' "New & Noteworthy" page, where it's featured twice alongside the likes of Otis Taylor, Greg Allman, Bobby Rush, and Howlin' Wolf.

As noted in this week's Reverb column, Blue as Can Be is the local group's first release on former Muddy Waters guitarist Bob Margolin's VizzTone label, which apparently doesn't hurt when it comes to visibility.…
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Concert update: Free outdoor Cassie Taylor show

Bill Forman — Fri, 26 Apr 2013 17:38:00 -0600

So we just got word of a free outdoor show with Cassie Taylor this Saturday evening, and with predictions of clear skies and high 60s throughout the weekend*, that's gonna be pretty hard to pass up.

For those who aren't familiar, Cassie is the daughter of blues legend Otis Taylor, and as you'll hear below, a powerful singer and guitarist in her own right.…
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How the country sees us

Matthew Schniper — Fri, 26 Apr 2013 10:02:00 -0600

So what if some of them think we're the second worst-dressed city in the country. We're also regularly ranked among the healthiest cities in the U.S., as well as the most churched.…
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Urban farming: Catfish and koi need you

Matthew Schniper — Thu, 25 Apr 2013 16:20:00 -0600

A note of clarification up front here: Ivywild Farm is not part of the soon-to-open Ivywild School project. Though the urban farm is located just blocks away, and there's a good chance some items produced by Ivywild Farm — possibly eggs, honey or more likely herbs and produce — will be sold at a farm stand inside the school, it is still its own entity.…
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Recent series from KRCC shows burning homes, looks at 'living with wildfire'

Bryce Crawford — Thu, 25 Apr 2013 15:01:00 -0600

In case you've missed it, Andrea Chalfin and Michelle Mercer at KRCC have been doing good fire reporting of their own in a series called "Flash Point," which explores "how wildfire is changing life in Colorado."

And though it's radio-centric, of course, the web reports have some cool features, like a timeline of major events in the history of forests and wildfires, or the intense video of live footage shot at the time by the Colorado Springs Fire Department.…
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Face to Face opens up to a world of influences

Chris Parker — Wed, 24 Apr 2013 04:00:00 -0600
Truth or friction by Chris Parker Face to Face frontman Trever Keith has been on the front lines of punk long enough to trace its evolution. "I think the American form of punk rock is transforming into something almost akin to Americana music or — I hate to say country music, but there is a certain outlaw sensibility," says Keith.…
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