Lights, Camera, BoomBox at the Aggie Theater April 9th, 2015

Off the street and into the Aggie, immediately confronted with a near panic attack inducing clamoring crush of people. The bar, the stage, the door and the dance floor, going anywhere was like a shopping on a blackfriday at Walmart. Stepping lightly over the sticky ground half trying to avoid  peoples feet while at least [...]

BoomBox Brings the Sound of Muscle Shoals to Colorado

It was unseasonably cold for an Alabama Winter. The temperatures were record setting; black ice caused by the Tennessee River was developing on the O’Neil Bridge each day. A peculiar something was developing in Muscle Shoals, Alabama that year; something different. This wasn’t the ‘70s when Muscle Shoals was “The Hit Recording Capital of the World.” This was 2005, the last hit song written by anyone in the Shoals area was “I Swear” by Gary Baker and performed by both country music legend John Michael Montgomery and pop- group All 4 One in the ‘90s. The Pussycat Dolls were climbing the Top-40 charts, and the terms EDM and tweet had yet to sink their claws in the English vocabulary. BoomBox had just gotten the master recording of Visions of Backbeat back from their mastering engineer, and I didn’t know I would get lucky enough to be in the room when the box of CDs came in. I didn’t know I would be listening to the record as much as I did when I first put the disk in my car stereo. I didn’t know I would get lucky enough to be so close to the beginning of something bigger than I was.

Photos: Boombox @ The Ogden Theater 10/31

Boombox packed out The Ogden theater with groovy beats on Halloween night this year! The whole venue was dressed up and ready to get down, Boombox put on a high energy show that Denver won’t soon forget.