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Tucker Mountain Band – Tucker Mountain Band

By Charlie Englar reverbnation.com/tuckermountain-band Old-school, Appalachia-style, structured and straightforward: Just the way the forefathers of bluegrass would have it. On Tucker Mountain Band, TMB uses a majority of bouncy, banjo-driven tunes, highlighted with group harmonies […]

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Tennis – Young & Old

By Erik Myers myspace.com/tennisinc Young and Old, the new album from Denver’s Tennis, contends with midlife’s disappointments – an interesting arrival point for a husband-and-wife duo with a debut inspired by a seven-month sea-faring expedition. […]

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Qbala – My State of Dementia

By Conor Hooley myspace.com/qbalamicskillz First impressions aren’t everything. Although My State of Dementia begins jarringly with two songs that should never have made it past the cutting room floor, Qbala finds her footing toward the […]

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Miscommunicado – L'Ocean

By Devin Morse facebook.com/miscomunicado Miscomunicado is a self-described progressive psychedelic blues-rock band with a fitting name. That is, the labels “progressive” or “bluesy” may be a “miscomunicado” on their part. Still, they certainly embrace psychedelic […]

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Jon Dakota – Big Magic

By Charlie Englar jondakota.com Words with wisdom carry a lot of weight, especially when a lifetime of ups and downs is described via the accompaniment of an acoustic guitar and harmonica. Jon Dakota lets this […]

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In The Whale – Cake

By Erik Myers myspace.com/songsinthewhale Singer Nate Valdez and drummer Eric Riley have had a strange, genre-blending journey as In The Whale; Cake being their hard rock affirmation. The Denver duo achieve an impressive intensity, but […]

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High Wire Walker – High Wire Walker

By Marlee Keeven facebook.com/highwirewalker As a progressive rock band, High Wire Walker rocks. But the amount that they rock is definitely still in the early stages of progression. The album doesn’t start out very convincingly, […]

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Earth Burnt Black – Harrowing Catharsis

By Dusty Ray myspace.com/earthburntblack Harrowing Catharsis starts out like a sludge-laced snow cone, slowly melting into a semblance of Between the Buried and Me with slightly more demonic vocals. Earth Burnt Black presents a fractured […]

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SHEL – When The Dragon Comes Down EP

By Charlie Englar Classical training and profound emotional and musical intelligence burst from the seams on the newest release from the Fort Collins-based sisterhood quartet that is SHEL. When The Dragon Comes Down, an EP, […]