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BandWagon Magazine has covered Greeley in 470 stories since 2012, including 198 features, 78 reviews and 111 photo galleries.

470 stories · Page 5 of 24

Six people pose with guitars in a small room with exposed wooden beams and posters on the walls.

FeaturesSilver & Gold: Saving FaceThe band members in Silver & Gold don’t seem to believe it, but it was a decade ago when they were just a group of college kids crowded together in a music rehearsal room at the…Dan England · Jan 17, 2023

Treaty Oak Revival posing with guitars in a graffiti-covered, derelict building with debris on the floor.

FeaturesTreaty Oak Revival: An Alliance Between Punk and CountryTreaty Oak Revival didn’t really have a choice but to be a country band.Dan England · Dec 15, 2022

Trash. poses at night inside a large rusted metal ring sculpture, four members in dark clothing.

MusicAlbum Review: Trash. – GhostsLet’s face it. For many, the past couple of years have been pretty garbage, in a lot of ways.Nate Wilde · Dec 13, 2022

Features100 to 16, Now Down to 4: BandWagon’s Battle Of The Bands Closes in on Title BoutEternal Glory, $5,000 and the cover of BandWagon Magazine are grounds for musical fisticuffs in Colorado.Kevin Johnston · Dec 6, 2022

A woman with wavy brown hair in a black leather jacket and mustard top stands before a corrugated metal wall.

Creative WritingEveryone Should Start a Band“Everyone should start a band. You’ll begin by gathering some friends to meet in a dingy classroom and start practice on a drum set with busted heads and an amp with crunchy outputs. You’ll be bad at first. Or maybe not terrible, but awkward and too loud. But it will be fun to make noise and write songs that aren’t so serious, and maybe a few that are. You’ll laugh harder than you have in years. You’ll leave practice looking forward to the next one. You’ll play a show …”Briana Harris · Nov 14, 2022

Four men in black graphic t-shirts pose in front of dense green foliage for a band portrait.

MusicAlbum Review: Jellyfish Farm – JellyfishProgressive rock is certainly its own multi-tentacled beast. Its key characteristics align with virtuosic musicianship and a sort of refined taste which, as with caviar or any stereotype, can lend itself to negative connotations. But the debut release from Colorado’s Jellyfish Farm could not be further from any preconceived notion of “stuffy” progressive rock. Rather, it’s a delightful and abstract breath of fresh air for not only the state’s local music scene, but modern prog as a whole.Nate Wilde · Nov 10, 2022

Black-and-white portrait of a man with tousled hair, palm-print shirt, and chain necklace, holding a hat by a wall.

FeaturesNothing to Hide Behind: Wheelwright’s Jared Kolesar After The Mill“I think there’s an element of a lonely cowboy out on the trail,” Jared Kolesar of Wheelwright tells BandWagon. “There’s many songs now with a story that is best told while I’m alone with my guitar.” The reworked songs give his Jared & The Mill fans a chance to preview his new sound, one he calls more sonically interesting, with more synth and more effects to his vocals to go with some new hip-hop vibes. He calls the sound Neo-Western and compares it to a mix of 80’s futurism and Americana. Or, in his own words, “like Blade Runner with more cowboy vibes.”Dan England · Oct 10, 2022

A woman in a floral dress raises her arms overhead in golden sunlight beside a calm lake with bare trees.

FeaturesFinding Herself: Briana Harris Steps Up as Band Leader on Debut Album When We’re FoundOn a whim, Briana Harris submitted a grant proposal along with a demo of her soulful song “Ground Up” which she had performed for The Burroughs’ Virtual Telethon in 2020.Valerie Vampola · Oct 5, 2022

Layered triple-exposure portrait of a bearded man in a plaid shirt, lit warmly beside a sheer curtain.

FeaturesBirth, Death and Time In The Sun: SUSTO’s Justin Osborne Finds new Dimesion“There were ravines growing between me and people in my life,” Justin Osborne tells BandWagon.Kevin Johnston · Sep 12, 2022

Scenes from the Block Party in Greeley (photo 1 of 9)

Concert PhotosBlock Party Photos: Holdfast, The Cuddies, G. Good & The PaintersThe official Block Party photo gallery is up, with shots of Holdfast, The Cuddies, G. Good & The Painters and more.tylerisamoth · Sep 7, 2022

A bearded man in a red cowboy hat and glasses plays an electric guitar under yellow stage lights.

Concert PhotosBlock Party 2022 – photos by Tyler Smith« ‹ of 2 › »BandWagon Magazine · Sep 7, 2022

Five men in black band shirts and a patched vest pose against a dim, script-covered backdrop.

MusicAlbum Review: Draghoria – Dangerous SpeciesNate Wilde · Sep 2, 2022

Bearded man in a mint green blazer and patterned shirt gestures with raised hands against a gray backdrop.

FeaturesPermission to Shine: Shinyribs’ Kevin Russell Goes BigKevin Russell was nearing age 40, and given the upheavals in his career, should have been facing the clichéd mid-life crisis.Dan England · Aug 24, 2022

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FeaturesThe Bones of J.R. Jones: Desert Rhythms and Dancing Through the BluesJ.R.’s life as a touring bluesman came later than some. In his late 20’s, he was living in Brooklyn, bartending and teaching at a pre-school. He had a masters degree in printmaking, but the medium was quickly being usurped by digital alternatives. Still, he needed a creative outlet. A few years before, J.R.’s college roommate had introduced him to a song that made him fall in love with the blues. It was Blind Lemon Jefferson, a 1920’s singer and guitarist who is sometimes credited as the “Father of the Texas Blues.” “I had never heard that raw, gritty passion in anything else,” he said. “It just kind of leveled me.” From then on, J.R. spent his in-between time — in between work, school, relationships and everything else — playing the blues. “There were a lot of DIY venues that popped up in loft spaces or garages. They were perfect for the type of music I was playing,” he explained. “All you needed was a condenser microphone, a picnic table and a cooler of PBR.”Gabe Allen · Jul 14, 2022

A man in a green Greeley Stampede shirt and cap gestures on an empty concrete stage in a grandstand arena.

FeaturesA Century of Country – Greeley Stampede’s New Stage Set for Brad Paisley and MoreThe Greeley Stampede’s new stage was built with Brad Paisley in mind. The last time he played here, in 2007, Paisley had 10 semi-trailers full of equipment, said Justin Watada, executive director of the Stampede. Way back then, three “up and coming” acts performed with Paisley, including a young lady named Taylor Swift. The brand new stage is bigger and much better, with all the fixins you’d expect from a show at Red Rocks, including a platform that will allow the artists to walk 50 feet out into the crowd. And Paisley is back as the Stampede’s biggest act in a lineup that includes Stone Temple Pilots, Jon Pardi, Cole Swindell and Jordan Davis.Dan England · Jun 21, 2022

Bearded man in a black White Sox cap and dark shirt gazes sideways in a dimly lit, red-toned room with brick walls.

FeaturesOGT: To Re-Write a LegacyKodean IX doesn’t know where he would be without music, but he knows it wouldn’t be good.Dan England · Jun 15, 2022

Bearded man in glasses and a denim jacket holds a tortoiseshell cat against a bright red backdrop.

MusicSingle Review: Joy Scout – “Pretty Itty Bitty Kitty”During the pandemic, Joy Scout’s Paul Beverage brought home a tabby named Josie, wrote a punk-infused 12-bar blues about her and he wants you to know about it. Mee-ow!Gabe Allen · Jun 13, 2022

Four musicians in a sunlit green forest playing fiddle, mandolin, guitar, and upright bass.

FeaturesHow The Arcadian Wild was Loved Into BeingThe Arcadian Wild really listen. You can see it in their patience with fans, their gentleness with each other, and most of all in the cohesive interplay of each melodic line in their music. Like mycelium spreading nutrients throughout a forest, each individual is inseparable from the whole. The band began in an impromptu post-choir-class jam session in 2013. The lineup has shifted so often over the years that founding member Lincoln Mick refers to the band as a “revolving door,” but he remembers the band’s five-or-so departed members with much more sweetness than bitterness. “To take a turn of phrase from Fred Rogers, so many people have ‘loved this band into being’ over the years,” he told BandWagon.Gabe Allen · Jun 9, 2022

Five men in black band shirts and a patched vest pose against a dim, script-covered backdrop.

MusicAlbum Review: Draghoria – Dangerous SpeciesNate Wilde · Jun 2, 2022

Goatwhore band members pose on a concrete walkway beside a weathered brick wall, a long-haired man screaming in the

FeaturesGoatwhore: With a VengeanceEven with a name like Goatwhore, there’s room for subtlety. Yes, there are Satanic overtones in Goatwhore’s lyrics — duh — and their music reflects it, with the kind of hardcore black metal crunch you’d expect in the drums, guitars and, of course, the vocals (also duh). But the last record’s lyrics come from a concept album, Vengeful Ascension, which portray Lucifer as an underdog slighted by a God who was equally oppressive. L. Ben Falgoust II, the band’s singer (and keeper of one of the best metal monikers in history), uses historical references to color the themes, but Zack Simmons, the drummer, likes to apply the lyrics to real life.Dan England · May 4, 2022