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MiMOSA – 58 degrees
By Brady Smith So you think white boys can’t dance? Play this album and see what the whitest kids you know can do. Even though the title of the album is 40 degrees away from […]
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Crabtree – Small Brewery Brings Big Flavors
By Brady Smith Nuzzled away in Greeley’s industrial area and surrounded by rusted train tracks and plumes of black smog sifting out of tall smokestacks is the humble home of Crabtree Brewery. Crabtree has created […]
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Kenny Perkins – Wild Frontier
By Brady Smith Like a fine single malt, music seems to get better with age. Kenny Perkins’ Wild Frontier siphons a plethora of old and new genres into a barrel and waits until it produces […]
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Paul Russell – Back at the Scene of Our Beautiful Crime
By Brady Smith Whatever happened to the simplicity that folk music engenders in its performers and listeners? Growing bases of musicians are crossing genres. Paul Russell is one of these cross-genre artists, and in his […]
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Blacklist Boardshop: 86ing Mainstream Culture
By Brady Smith 86ers: A self-proclaimed title of the growing counterculture that lingers at the underbelly of the largely conservative super culture and is proudly stamped on skateboards, t-shirts, street signs, and windows of the […]
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Take To The Oars – American Volume
By Brady Smith Vonnegut is dead – the band name, that is. Denver’s popular modern rock group Vonnegut is now known as Take to the Oars: A change evoking impressions of the ever evolving, always […]
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Cualli – Quantum
By Brady Smith A quantum is defined as the smallest unit of matter in an interaction. As such, it is a well-suited title for Cualli’s debut album. Aaron Holsapple leads us in a masterfully mixed […]
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Jim Bradford – Redraw The Line
By Brady Smith Bob Dylan was the poster child for folk artists with mediocre vocal talents. As a matter of fact, it is not the vocal qualities of most folk artists that draw in their […]
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Trichome – Where Creation Now Grows
By Brady Smith The grassroots Fort Collins-based reggae band Trichome breaks through in their debut album, Where Creation Now Grows. Like the name implies, this pot-induced, reggae-infused musical montage floods the senses with catchy riffs […]