Break It To Make It: Okey Dokey Hits The Coast

December 7, 2021

It’s 1 am in San Antonio, Texas and Aaron Martin wants to give you a hug.

He’s the singer and co-founder of Okey Dokey and why wouldn’t he give you a squeeze? You are, after all, a part of Okey Dokey too.

“It’s everything you’d want after two years of, you know, the absence,” Martin tells BandWagon of their current tour. He’s been excited to finally practice Okey Dokey’s mission statement with the people who make the live music experience what it is to him: pretty much everyone who’s not in the band.

“The whole statement is kind of anti-separation,” Martin says. “Bands aren’t just a band. It’s everyone involved.”

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Video Premiere: Holdfast. – “Time”

November 29, 2021

“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.

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Album Review: Covenhoven – IV

October 8, 2021

For Coloradans, the name Covenhoven has become synonymous with intimate and heartfelt yet cinematic and powerful folk music. Over the course of three previous full length albums, Joel Van Horne, the stalwart man behind the timidly convicted voice around which the music of Covenhoven swirls, has unflappably delivered expertly crafted, immersive music which seems to speak directly from his heart into our ears.

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Album Review: The Cuddies – Fix It Myself

September 4, 2021

Greeley’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. The band flexes their arrangement chops with big horns and fast guitars, offering tricky rhythms in the vocal. Akin to female-fronted bands like Letters to Cleo or the Cardigans, the Cuddies cleverly twist the unexpected into four-on-the-floor fun.

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