Looking out my window on this crisp November morning, all the Fall colors have disappeared and left only a few survivors hanging from the naked trees in the neighborhood. Winter is upon us here in Denver, Colorado and those few hangers-on will be gone with the next storm. It’s a transitional time, out with...
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Lissie and her band were in Colorado again this week for some promotional gigs with KBCO. A Studio C session was followed by a listener appreciation show at Soiled Dove on Wednesday night. Those that weren’t lucky enough to win tickets to that performance were treated to a free parking lot gig with Bobby...
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The sweaty lump of a man picked himself up off the floor and stumbled to the front of the stage, hovering over the congregation below ‘I know it’s a lie, but I still give my love’. This man was a killer. Having just bludgeoned his guitar to death after confessing his part in the...
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Okkervil River – I Am Very Far (Jagjaguwar, 2011) Will Sheff is a frightening individual. Not physically, odds are he has avoided or lost more confrontations that he has won, but frightening in a mental way. There are dark rooms in his mind, rooms where unspeakable things have happened. Rooms that should be under...
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Bon Iver – Bon Iver (Jagjaguwar, 2011) Over three years has past since Justin Vernon devastated everyone with For Emma, Forever Ago, cementing Emma‘s page in the history books as ‘worst girlfriend ever!’ Since then there have been girls in and out of the lives around me that give her a run for her...
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Last night proved to be interesting in San Diego. I started my day in the most unlikely of places and ended it much the same way. Drew Brees Celebrity Championship in Rancho Santa Fe is not my idea of a good time, but that is where I spent the first part of my day...
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There are so many shows that I look forward to every year. I buy tickets in advance, invite everyone I know, make pre-show plans and in the end the actual performance is diminished, becoming nothing more than the soundtrack to another night out. This is why it is so exciting when I make a...
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ILSUHD2 will be on a posting hiatus for two weeks while on holiday in Cambodia and Thailand from March 26th – April 10th, but this does not mean you have to start listening to 106.7 KBPI or your city’s equivalent…we’ve got you covered! With all the interviews, features and live shows lately, we’ve gotten...
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The Decemberists – The King Is Dead (Capitol, 2011) Colin Meloy and his Decemberists were an acquired taste for me. I’m all for intelligent music, but this band from Portland, OR takes intelligence to a new level. Each release should come packaged with a complimentary Encyclopedia of World History. When the stories being told...
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Slightly below the real world, in my real life, I work as a Sales Engineer for a software company. My days are spent in a home office in my basement in Colorado. This isn’t a windowless, dungeon type of basement as you can see by the photo above, but sometimes the music that escapes...
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Is Lissie hip in the way Jenny Lewis or Zooey Deschanel are? Or is she more like KT Tunstall and Sheryl Crow, an adult alternative type of cool? Or would she fit in better with the Righteous Babe crew? I asked myself that question as I scanned the crowd at the Bluebird last night...
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