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MusicSingle 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, 2021MusicSingle Review: Plume Varia – Hold On To MeA haunting tune, “Hold On To Me” is like a nighttime journey through the southwest, channelling the late night cold of the desert.Laura Giagos · Feb 9, 2021MusicAlbum Review: Yung Lurch – B ALL INDenver based multi-instrumentalist Brent Somermeyer, under the name Yung Lurch, is not an artist tied down by conventions.Laura Giagos · Feb 8, 2021MusicAlbum Review: Isadora Eden – All NightIsadora Eden’s second EP, the vulnerable ‘All Night,’ opens like a dark, reverberated flower in your headphones. Eden’s young, muted alto offers sad solidarity to those who will listen, while she and bandmates Sumner Erhard and Corey Coffman carry her shy messages on the shoulders of stately guitars, dignified drums and echoey atmosphere.Kevin Johnston · Feb 6, 2021MusicSingle Review: Andy Sydow – “Piece Of The Valley”Andy Sydow enters 2021 with “Piece of the Valley,” a raucous and bombastic single that pulls no punches. Leaving the mark of someone with a clear ear for what they want, Sydow shoots for the fences as one of Colorado’s most notable working songwriters.Laura Giagos · Feb 5, 2021MusicSingle Review: Retrofette – Photogenic2021 is going to see Denver’s best synth pop outfit Retrofette become one of the biggest bands in Colorado.Laura Giagos · Feb 4, 2021MusicAlbum Review: Jess Parsons – Hear Me CallingStop sifting for obscure ‘70s soft-pop on Spotify playlists like “candle-lit living room slow dance” and buy Jess Parsons’ “Hear Me Calling.” Denver’s Parsons knows well that charm and honesty go a long way.Kevin Johnston · Feb 3, 2021MusicAlbum Review: The Crooked Rugs – IT!On their debut LP IT!, Colorado quintet The Crooked Rugs take the compulsory ingredients of modern rock band instrumentation and create something wonderfully foreign. Echoes of psych, prog and garage rock resound, but each song is clearly the result of diligent experimentation. IT! was recorded this summer in Durango, and for an album made in a barn in rural Colorado, it’s anything but folksy.Gabe Allen · Jan 13, 2021MusicAlbum Review: Fresh Fruit! – IndependentlyThe groovy, Denver-based soul band Fresh Fruit!Valerie Vampola · Jan 8, 2021MusicAlbum Review: Nick Sanville & Timo Massa – Eat Out Culture, Vol. 1For listeners looking to skip the drive-thru, Eat Out Culture, Vol.Diego Felix · Jan 4, 2021MusicAlbum Review: Alright Alright – CrucibleAlright Alright’s new album Crucible is an intimate experience with dreamy orchestration and relatable lyrics, something for which they are already known. But here, that intimacy is closer than before, like the genuine musings of a close friend.Valerie Vampola · Dec 14, 2020MusicAlbum Review: Musketeer Gripweed – More Than EverMusketeer Gripweed released “More Than Ever” late last month, taking their bluesy Americana sound and infusing it with gospel and soul. Gospel and soul sounds are appropriate for a project that was brought back to life after it was halted by COVID-19.Valerie Vampola · Dec 8, 2020MusicSingle Review: Enzi – “Mad Chemistry”As with all of Enzi’s music, her full-throated vocal performance on “Mad Chemistry” carries the track. She croons through a hooky chorus while calling and responding to a many-layered harmony of her own voice. You get the feeling Enzi is jut getting started.Gabe Allen · Dec 7, 2020MusicVideo Premiere: The Sickly Hecks – “Four Years”Good music waits for no man, and pandemics make shit times for everyone, so what better time to release a sad-boy pop punk album?!Laura Giagos · Dec 4, 2020MusicSingle & Video Review: The Beeves – Mercy BeOn “Mercy Be” the Beeves leave behind their beloved flailing antics, revealing their influences to be just as loyal to the Flamingos, The Beach Boys and Elvis as they are to The Vines and The Strokes. The accompanying video is a slo-mo-rodeo prom night dream. Its beautifully shot, beautifully sequenced simplicity masks The Beeves in more intrigue; the kind of dark mystique indicative of Princes, Bowies and Mercurys.Kevin Johnston · Nov 23, 2020MusicSingle Review: Bones Muhroni – “I SHOULD HAVE IT RN”Making the best of quarantine, Crew Rienstra (aka Bones Muhroni) released “I SHOULD HAVE IT RN”, a song and video summarizing all the weirdness your average person is going…Laura Giagos · Nov 15, 2020MusicSingle Review: Machu Linea ft. Evllqn – “Feelitboi”Denver’s future-electro R&B musician Machu Linea is bringing his jazzy experimental sound back to the people with the release of “Feelitboi,” the first single ahead of his second album HeXotica (out now).Laura Giagos · Nov 14, 2020MusicSingle Review: 30 – “Homesick”A Massachusetts native by the name 30 recently moved to Colorado to make the best of covid reality, releasing genre-non-specific singles in support of his full-length “Introspects Of A Psycho,” out October (yes) 30.Kevin Johnston · Nov 13, 2020MusicSinge Review: Método ft. Neoma and Amantina – “Gold Chain”Ecuadorian-pop-songstress-turned-Denverite Neoma has been making waves in Colorado since relocating here in 2018.Laura Giagos · Nov 12, 2020