Red Dirt Is Coming to Colorado. The Logan Ryan Band Is Leading the Charge.
As history has shown time and again, dramatic shifts from the mainstream are inevitable. Alternative rock pushed hair metal off the top of the mountain in the early 1990s, gangster rap overtook bubblegum hip hop and R&B around the same time, and disco met its unceremonious end in the late 1970s. All are notable chapters […]
Estin and the 86’d Return with ‘Big News’
Since 2018, Estin and the 86’d has been serving Colorado’s Front Range catchy, country-tinged rock songs catalogued in the form of two full-length studio albums. Along the way they have provided the soundtrack to big, fun parties in the form of countless memorable live performances. Now, the band has released another offering, but this time, […]
The Bright Collide Do Not Stay Quiet on Latest Single
Fort Collins has long been known to be home to a vibrant music scene. Because northern Colorado is an undisputedly great place to live, it’s not uncommon to find musicians bouncing from band to band and new bands starting up from the remnants of other bands on a consistent basis. A fairly recent example of […]
Siege Perilous Becomes the Dragon | Album Review
Fantasy has long been a genre of books, games, and even music that has been popular for centuries. Tales of knights, castles, and dragon slaying have been topics of interest in the forms of games like Dungeons and Dragons, gatherings such as the Renaissance Festival, and in recent years, a phenomenon called LARPing, a shortened […]
Legends Never Die: Billy Gibbons and ZZ Top Stay On Top
Since 1969, ZZ Top has been bringing their unique brand of blues-tinged southern rock around the world. Despite losing founding bassist Dusty Hill in 2021, Billy Gibbons, Frank Beard, and new bearded bassist Elwood Francis show no signs of slowing down. ZZ Top has also certainly made their presence known in Colorado. From early shows […]
Album Review: Graveyard Choir – The Wake
2025 saw the amicable demise of Colorado power duo INTHEWHALE, but like a phoenix rising from the ashes, guitarist/vocalist Nate Valdez and drummer Eric Riley were quick to bounce back, bringing in additional personnel to give us an equally impressive Graveyard Choir. Designed by Valdez as an outlet for his love of “more traditional songwriting” […]
Heavy-Psych Band Flahoola Unleashes Debut Album Electric Scythe
If you’ve been around the Colorado music scene for a while, chances are you’ve felt the strange, electrifying pull of Flahoola. The delightfully weird, high-octane power trio has been grinding for nearly a decade, and now their long-awaited debut full-length album, Electric Scythe, is set to carve its way into the world—bringing your speakers a […]
INTHEWHALE – The End of an Era, but not the Legacy
By Nate Wilde Like stereotypes, tired old cliches like, “all good things must come to an end” exist for a reason. In the case of Colorado’s INTHEWHALE, one of the best things to come out of the state’s local music scene in the past 15 years is doing just that, but not before leaving behind […]