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MusicAlbum Review: This Broken Beat – Far From HomeJulio Perez, lead singer of This Broken Beat has the kind of pop-rock cross-over voice that would make Adam Levine turn his chair around.Kevin Johnston · Dec 8, 2021FeaturesBreak It To Make It: Okey Dokey Hits The CoastIt’s 1 am in San Antonio, Texas and Aaron Martin wants to give you a hug.Kevin Johnston · Dec 7, 2021105.5 The Colorado Sound's Featured ArtistsLos Mocochetes: 105.5 The Colorado Sound Featured Artist, December 2021Los Moccochetes, Denver’s award-winning latin funk band, springs from a group of highschool friends and acquaintances from the music and poetry scene. The raw, “la famiglia” vibe is potent both on stage and in their new, multi-lingual, socially conscious EP Mucho Gusto. Los Moccochetes are here to party for the right to fight.Kevin Johnston · Dec 3, 2021PremieresVideo Premiere: Holdfast. – “Time”“Time” is the final music video from Stay and Fight, the debut album from Windsor-born, Fort Collins rock trio Holdfast. It premieres exclusively via BandWagon today. “We are all trying to beat the clock,” Holdfast. tells BandWagon. “It’s such a universal problem. We don’t have enough time – but what’s beautiful about that is we have to try our absolute best to fit what’s actually important in our lives.Kevin Johnston · Nov 29, 2021105.5 The Colorado Sound's Featured ArtistsKiltro: 105.5 The Colorado Sound Featured Artist, November 2021“‘Cuchito’ is a song about a cat. It’s kind of about my cat,” Christopher Castillo Bowers says.Kevin Johnston · Nov 8, 2021CommunityThe Motet: Colorado Sound Featured Artist, October 2021A motet, in Western classical music, is a composition, diverse in form and style, dating all the way back to medieval times; a polyphonic form described by scholars as “a piece of music in several parts.” Today, we might call such a conglomeration simply … a jam. Maybe that’s where the head of drummer Dave Watts was in 1998 when he founded what would become one of Colorado’s (and the world’s) most well-loved live bands: The Motet. Always laying on a fresh coat of funk, rock, soul and jazz, the band is known for surprising their die-hard audiences with top-tier special guests, but have other tricks, and indeed treats, up their sleeves too, especially for Halloween.Kevin Johnston · Oct 12, 2021MusicAlbum Review: Covenhoven – IVFor Coloradans, the name Covenhoven has become synonymous with intimate and heartfelt yet cinematic and powerful folk music.Kevin Johnston · Oct 8, 2021CommunityLady Denim: Colorado Sound Spotlight Artist, September 2021“We were desperately trying to stay optimistic,” Lady Denim’s lead vocalist Nick Lundeen tells BandWagon, “which – to be honest, was a lot easier said than done.” On September 10, Fort Collins indie-pop quartet Lady Denim release “Loosely Held Hands” with plans to rock the block at Downtown Greeley’s Block Party festival that night in celebration of the EP’s release. “Loosely Held Hands is about holding on to something during tough circumstances,” Lundeen says. “We became a lot more dependent on one another and the songwriting became more fluid.”Kevin Johnston · Sep 8, 2021MusicAlbum Review: The Cuddies – Fix It MyselfGreeley’s jazz-leaning (Hannah &) The Cuddies put on a rock show, but shine in moments of intimacy on their full-length debut Fix It Myself, a gloss-rock review via theatrical means.Kevin Johnston · Sep 4, 2021CommunityBuckle Up: FoCoMX Drive and Jive Continues Despite BoHo NoGoTaking place on Sundays this month at the historic Holiday Twin Drive-In, FoCoMX: Drive and Jive continued its live offerings last month with further programming into August and beyond. Reimagining the series to feature a mix of established veteran Colorado acts as well as “discovery” artists from the region, Drive and Jive aims to build engaged audiences and more. In light of yesterday’s news that the Bohemian Foundation’s recently announced Bohemian Light Music Festival is now in fact cancelled due to COVID precautions, the Drive and Jive series offers a live music format which has proved to function well under pandemic restrictions.Kevin Johnston · Aug 7, 2021105.5 The Colorado Sound's Featured ArtistsColorado Sound Spotlight Artist: The BurroughsStarting now, 105.5 The Colorado Sound and BandWagon will bring you a Colorado Spotlight Artist of the Month!Kevin Johnston · Aug 4, 2021MusicSingle Premiere: Cody – “I’m Not Really Listening”After years of solely identifying as the co-front man of Colorado’s adored brother-band Slow Caves, Jakob Mueller steps away from those familiar indie guitar shoegaze shores.Kevin Johnston · Jul 15, 2021MusicAlbum Review: Tenth Mountain Division – Butte La RoseOn Butte La Rose, Colorado’s mountain-bred quintet Tenth Mountain Division find space between extremes: A party with a big band, booze, questionable substances and endless jams; and relatable, folk-influenced storytelling. They stamp a crisp modernity on top, incorporating styles as far reaching as the Rockies themselves.Kevin Johnston · Jun 10, 2021MusicAlbum Review: Lighthouse Sessions – D.C. Myers‘Lighthouse Sessions’ is the debut EP from Denver’s D.C. Myers, and while it’s a dark catalogue of a sad man alone in a room with his electronics, it’s also one of the most engaging, smart and fun records to come out of Colorado in months. Myers knows this well: stimulate the more sophisticated neurons of those goths and their black-leather-clad hips will follow.Kevin Johnston · Jun 8, 2021MusicSingle Review: People In General – “icicic”Fort Collins indie poppers People In General find themselves aptly named for the theme of their upcoming single “icicic.” Seeking universality in songwriting is usually a great idea.Kevin Johnston · Jun 4, 2021MusicDEBR4H – “The Court Of Richard II”“This isn’t the normal, like, girl-joins-the-band story,” DEBR4H’s Jed Murphy tells BandWagon.Kevin Johnston · Apr 19, 2021MusicSingle Premiere: Carti Ferrari – The FarthestThe term “in the box” has taken on more meaning over the past year, especially for musicians forced to do almost everything from only (and often for only) their computers.Kevin Johnston · Apr 2, 2021MusicVideo Premiere: Isadora Eden – GhostsDenver singer/songwriter/shoegazer Isadora Eden’s history includes living in New Orleans and New York City where underground music scenes the likes of the late, great Sidewalk Cafe shaped her talent for forlorn, connectable music. The soft elocution in her young, muted alto reflects her well-traveled soul; one who’s stories we believe regardless of how few wordsKevin Johnston · Feb 25, 2021MusicSingle Premiere: Goth Club – Sweep Me Up“Sweep Me Up” premieres via BandWagon today, and it’s a black lipstick affair. Goth Club’s third release, it sinks to the half-spoken, sultry depths of Monster Magnet’s “Paradise” or even Ramstein with an added layer of synths and old-school drum machines akin to an early Depeche Mode. McFadden looks directly into the black mirror on “Sweep Me Up,” finding shadows, distortion and sludge within it.Kevin Johnston · Feb 18, 2021MusicSingle Premiere: Pie Lombardi – “Some People”Northern Colorado’s Pie Lombardi presents his finest work to date with the moving single “Some People,” which premieres today exclusively via BandWagon.Kevin Johnston · Feb 11, 2021