Jay Wallace

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Features105.5 Colorado SoundIn late February, NPR affiliate KUNC (91.5 FM) went to an all news format, seemingly leaving music fans on the front range in the wind.Jay Wallace · May 19, 2016FeaturesSave Our City: A Doors Tribute“It started with a beard, and some sunglasses and a friend saying I looked like Jim Morrison.”Jay Wallace · May 13, 2016MusicAlbum Review: Grace Kuch – Self-Titled DebutWhile BandWagon covers any and all music thrown our way, we have never heard any work from a child artist up until now.Jay Wallace · Apr 11, 2016FeaturesGreeley Philharmonic to score Disney’s FantasiaGlen Cortese, Maestro of the GPO, said over the phone that the live scoring of Fantasia was one of many collaborative projects the Orchestra is doing with the UCCC.Jay Wallace · Mar 21, 2016MusicAlbum Review: The Symbols – SmileChill. Charismatic. Mellow. Funky. Rocking?Jay Wallace · Feb 1, 2016MusicAlbum Review: Danny Shafer – Weddings, Floods and FuneralsShafer, initially from Chicago, has played over 200 shows a year between his solo gig and the band he’s a part of, The 21st Century, and the polished talent that comes with that level of prolificacy shows itself with Weddings.Jay Wallace · Dec 7, 2015FeaturesTime Travel, Trends, and Self-Publishing With Greeley’s Connie WillisWillis is an award-winning, Greeley-based science fiction author responsible for 1992’s Doomsday Book. She grew up with “girls’ books” such as Little Women and Anne of Green Gables, but eventually discovered the work of sci-fi author Robert Heinlein and fell in love with science fiction. Soon, she had devoured all the science fiction she could find at her library, including The Year’s Best Short Story Collections.Jay Wallace · Sep 15, 2015MusicAlbum Review: The Cairn Project’s Self-Titled Debut AlbumLocal Greeley group who call themselves The Cairn Project created their self-titled debut album “to serve as a marker in their own musical journey.” Started by drummer Brian…Jay Wallace · Sep 3, 2015MusicAlbum Review: Lunde Station— Another CountryFor those of us looking for a local folk/country fix, Lunde Station’s debut EP Another Country is the perfect fit.Jay Wallace · Aug 24, 2015MusicAlbum Review: Joe Lee Parker— DaijiFor the last few years, one of the local artists I’ve personally supported was musician/photographer/former BandWagon staff member Joe Lee Parker, who has been one of the…Jay Wallace · Apr 28, 2015CommunityBijou Creek Winery: A New Home for Greeley’s Wine LoversNow wine lovers in Greeley have a place to call home, and it is Bijou Creek Winery, located just off of West 10th Street. Erwin Hillman, owner of the winery and tasting room, is originally from Greeley, but got his start in Fort Morgan, making wine as a hobby and selling his product throughout the state to varying degrees of success.Jay Wallace · Feb 18, 2015CommunityGreeley-based Company Paves the Way for Commercial UseDrone technology has become a hot button issue in American society and by and large represents the coming age of the robotics industry.Jay Wallace · Jan 14, 2015EditorialsBandWagon Thoughts: Why Hipsters and “Lumbersexuals” Know NothingSupposedly, people my age are a forward looking, urban-focused generation. Yet they have an appreciation – no, a fetish – for the blue collar/outdoorsy/rural lifestyle, which I live. For example, The Atlantic recently ran a piece on “Lumbersexuals,” which are hipsters who dress like lumberjacks to feel more manly. Imagine Greeley fixture Paul Beveridge with more plaid, more beard and an axe.Jay Wallace · Jan 1, 2015FeaturesOh Greeley: An All American MusicalMothershed has put on theater productions in Greeley, mostly at the Atlas Theater on 16th Street for the last few years under the title of Cheaply Intellectual Theater, a platform for skewering (and informing the audience about) topics such as The Bible, American History and Classic Literature. On November 19, Mothershed and his production partners, Shane White and Eric Long, took over The Moxi and put on their most ambitious show yet, Oh Greeley: An All American Musical.Jay Wallace · Dec 10, 2014MusicAlbum Review: The Echo Chamber SynesthesiaI’m going into The Echo Chamber’s new release, Synesthesia, completely blind. While I have an interest in electronic music, I don’t necessarily listen to a lot of it, and while The Echo Chamber has played here in Greeley, I can’t recall ever attending one of their shows. So I’m largely judging it as if this is the group’s first album, even though this is the Fort Collins-based group’s second release.Jay Wallace · Dec 10, 2014MusicAlbum Review: Born to Wander – Self-Titled EPIt’s not every day that you get a debut album from a jazz trio, but more often than not, the music on it doesn’t sound that much different from anything else out there that’s getting play on the radio.Jay Wallace · Nov 25, 2014CommunityA Campaign for Unrelenting Terror: “North Woods” Indie-GoGo fundraiser ends soon!Over a year ago, BandWagon Magazine spoke to local horror filmmaker Jason Kasper on his project, North Woods, a retro slasher film in the vein of Evil Dead and Phantasm.Jay Wallace · Nov 23, 2014FilmFilm Review: The JudgeDid you know Robert Downey, Jr. has been nominated for an Oscar twice?Jay Wallace · Nov 16, 2014MusicAlbum Review: The Deadwood Saints 6th Street TrinityAlternative country is something that I don’t necessarily pay much attention to, even though I have a love and appreciation for country music.Jay Wallace · Oct 26, 2014CommunityGood Vibe Accoustic StudioOn Saturday, September 6, Ren Merry, Lindsay Davis and Daniel Bisceglia gathered before an audience in a small studio on 8th Avenue for their first group performance.Jay Wallace · Oct 11, 2014