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The Cairn Project Self Titled
Jay Wallace
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Local Greeley group who calls themselves The Cairn Project created their self-titled debut album “to serve as a marker in their own musical journey.” Started by drummer Brian Claxton and tenor saxophonist/ clarinetist/bass clarinetist Joel Harris simply to form a band of friends and make music that was personal to them, The Cairn Project (“Cairn” is a stack of stones hikers make to mark a trail, FYI) consists of six professional jazz musicians – alto saxophonist/ flutist Briana Harris, guitarist Ben Parrish, pianist Tom Amend and bassist Patrick Atwater. Each song is composed by a different member, leading to a jazz album of unique instrumental pieces, each of which has it’s own thing going on. Their professionalism shows in their work. Their eight song album has a polish to it that stands
up to the unique composition of each song. At first, you find yourself going, “Oh, this isn’t bad. This is just good old jazz music.” Then you hear the lapping of waves in “I Could Not Stand,” or a distant siren in “Victory Lap,” adding onto the mood of the songs. They can be light and airy one minute, then epic or triumphant the next, and end on a contemplative note. No two songs are truly alike, which is worth noting. At times, jazz compositions can all sound the same, but that’s not the case with The Cairn Project. Each song can be identified as its own; they don’t blend in with each other, and for that accomplishment, I respect The Cairn Project. The Cairn Project will be released on Bandcamp, CDBaby, Amazon and iTunes on Sunday, August 30. The group will also be releasing the album on CD as well as hosting an Album Release party at The Moxi Theater in Greeley, CO on the same date.
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FKA Twigz M3LL155X
Clark M. Lamson
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Art relies on experimentation for its continued growth. If Chuck Berry had never thought to have two guitars on the track
instead of one, well, someone else would have eventually done it, but you get my point. If you take an existing idea (the thesis) and fold into it a new and challenging thought (the antithesis) that makes something new, and thus,
growth! In the past decade Black music has had no shortage of new and challenging thinkers, and Tahliah Barnett is among them. Barnett, who’s known more commonly as the illusive, almost mythological FKA twigs, began her production with the simply titled EP1 and EP2, two fourtrack bundles which showcased her musical oddities, which for me, felt a little undercooked. Her debut record however, was anything but. Filled to the brim with titillatingly sexual lyricism, wildly progressive production, and buckets of genuine weirdness, the equally monosyllabic LP1, was a massive hit with critics and fans alike. Now, almost a year and a half later, FKA twigs has released her third extended play, M3LL155X. No, that’s not a typo (believe me, I checked). M3LL155X (which translates to “Mellissa” in normal speech) totals to five tracks, and is a much roomier, spacier, and scarier release than we’re used to. The brief moments of glaring lucidity experienced in LP1 are a distant memory with the odious grunge of M3LL155X sifting through your skull. The record continues twigs’ ability to create massively textural soundscapes. The balance of sounds is something constantly at play in her music. Harrowing,
grieving synths set against a ghostly, barely corporeal howl, all tied together with a beat that sounds like a dial-up death rattle. While LP1 aimed to smooth off the rough edges, M3LL155X is broken glass falling through honey. The record kicks off with “figure 8.” While in the first few moments of this track I felt a bored familiarity coming on, an ear-drum obliterating wall of fuzz 40 seconds in shook me out of any fatigue I might have felt going forward. The entire affair has me thinking of Death Grip’s Fashion Week, with it’s shifting pitches and twisting time signatures. “i’m your doll” follows a similarly dreamy composition, which makes “in time” all the more shocking. Venting relational frustrations, twigs drops the syncopated wailing in favor of a deliberate, and uncharacteristically clear vocal in the verses, and shiny pop-rap in the hook. The whole album, from the production to the album art, radiates adversity, both internally and externally. What the album lacks in sexuality (which isn’t much) it makes up for in conflict: with her partner, with herself, and in the case of “mothercreep,” her maternal relationship. Twigs’ conflict with her mother, as well as her own doubts on the matter,
are echoed in the otherworldly production. The track opens with a 30 second instrumental, five to six seconds of silence, and then the song itself. The instrumental doesn’t connect to the song in any obvious ways, but somehow it completely works. If you’re able to occupy a couple square inches of the same headspace as FKA twigs, it just feels like another room in her haunted house of sexy horrors. From the sounds of M3LL155X, FKA twigs doesn’t seem at all interested in traditional means of composition. From the rhythmical randomness, to the vulnerable writing, to the structures lines of a song, Tahliah Barnett continues to prove herself as one of the most ambitious producers and writers working today. FKA Twigs performed recently at the FYF Fest, and is now on tour abroad.
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en español
Irma Sandoval
BandWagon Magazine Encajando en la escena de “Rock En Tu Idioma”, Izcalli significa renacimiento, y es la tierra natal de los hermanos Avina. No se designan exclusivamente a ese género, pero tampoco se distancian de él porque sus similitudes a grupos como Los Jaguares o Julieta Venegas, por quienes han abierto conciertos, los han ayudado cautivar esa audiencia. Representan el nombre de su grupo como testimonio del renacimiento en su música, actitudes y cultura. Comprobando lo que dijo el creador del grupo, Miguel Avina “es la comunicación del idioma de la música”. Los tres miembros actuales son bajista, Brenda Avina, guitarrista principal y vocalista, Miguel Avina, y el baterista Luis Ramírez. Estrenaron su tercer álbum, III, en Agosto de este año. Esperan que a través de esta compilación haya continuidad, que su música alcance los lugares debidos y que la gente pueda sentirla porque es “algo real” dice Avina. En la primera canción de III, “No Está En Ti”, comparten el mensaje de tomar responsabilidad por lo que está ocurriendo en el mundo con letra diciendo, “A veces la ignorancia es paz dentro de ti, y prefieres no entender que pasa aquí”. Acompañando con ritmos enganchadores es como desarrollan a la transición al resto del álbum que proyecta el crecimiento del grupo. Esa presentación se aparenta más en los shows en vivo de Izcalli, por eso III fue diseñado con intenciones de compartir su sonido puro y natural. En “Once I Knew Your Name” se puede adherir a esas sensaciones del “power rock” que también logran dominar. Con líricas diciendo “le diste todo lo que te di a ti, y hay luz en la verdad que veo”, pueden expresar algo que originalmente fue acústico pero tan lleno de emoción que tuvo que ser amplificado con su sonido completo y conmovedor.
Fitting in perfectly to the Rock En Tu Idioma (Rock In Your Language) scene Izcalli is a group whose name means revival, and is the birthplace of the Avina siblings. They are not limited solely to that genre, but do not distance themselves from it because their similarities to groups like Los Jaguares or Julieta Venegas, artists they’ve opened for in concert, has helped them capture that same audience. Representative of their band’s name, they serve as witnesses to the rebirth in their own music, as well as the attitudes within their culture. As founder Miguel Avina says, they’re “communicating the language of music.” The three current members are bassist, Brenda Avina, lead guitarist and vocalist, Miguel Avina, and drummer Luis Ramirez. The band released their third album III, in August this year. They hope that through this compilation there is continuity. That their music is played in the right places and that “people get the feeling of something real,” says Avina. In III’s first song “It’s Not In You,” they share the message of taking responsibility for what is going on in the world with lyrics saying, “Sometimes ignorance is peace within yourself, and you prefer not to understand what happens here.” Accompanied by dancy and engaging rhythms, they transition into the rest of the album which portrays the group’s growth. That presentation is more apparent in Izcalli’s live shows so they designed III with the intention of sharing their raw and natural sound. In “Once I Knew Your Name” the listener can really embrace those sensations of the “power rock” that they’ve mastered. With lyrics saying “You gave him all I gave to you, and there’s a light in your truth I see,” they express what was originally acoustic, but so full of emotion it had to be amplified by the intensity of their full band sound.
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Carrying the Torch: Dweezil Zappa Keeps Frank’s Memory Alive Kyle Eustice
BandWagon Magazine Dweezil Zappa answers the phone clearly out of breath, prompting immediate curiosity as to what in the world he’s been doing. Apparently, he’s in the middle of a P90x fitness DVD, which he says is the only way he can squeeze any exercise into his hectic schedule. The son of legendary musician Frank Zappa, Dweezil has been dancing around the outer edges of the music business his entire life. Today, he’s the only child actively carrying on the Zappa legacy with his Zappa Plays Zappa project. While most children of celebrities spend a lifetime trying to escape their parents’ shadows, Dweezil embraces his. He freely talks about his father and growing up in the Los Angeles area in the ‘60s and ‘70s. “Laurel Canyon is an area that was well known in the ‘60s,” Zappa explains. “There’s basically one route that connects you from the Hollywood side to the valley side. In the ‘30s and ‘40s, it was literally a wilderness area. There were forts and people would stay overnight because the ride up the hill was a long one. That whole area got ‘hippified’ in the ‘60s. My dad
lived in a house called the Log Cabin, but it wasn’t a place where I grew up. He moved out of that house before I was born. We weren’t in Laurel Canyon when I was growing up, but we were nearby.” At his young age, Dweezil didn’t realize his household was any different than the “norm.” It seemed natural to have a house electrified by music and other eccentric artists who were frequent guests in the Zappa home. “When you grow up in your own house, whatever is around you is normal,” he says. “There was nothing that was different that I could judge it by. My dad was gone a lot when I was little because he was on tour. When he had the studio at home, he was there almost all the time. By the time I was 12 or 13, both of my parents were home pretty much all of the time. That was unusual because other people’s parents were working away from home. The kids at school really didn’t know my dad’s music because it was a different generation. It wasn’t like there were kids asking me for tickets. That just never happened.” Frank Zappa passed away in 1993 at the age of 53 after a battle with prostate cancer. Dweezil, already a talented musician in his own right, decided he was the best possible person to carry
Frank’s torch. Zappa Plays Zappa, as the name suggests, plays only Frank’s catalog. “I’m a fan of what he did so I like to embrace and celebrate the stuff,” he explains. “As far as playing the music goes, there’s nobody out there that’s going to care about the details more than me. If you’re going to uphold a standard you might as well be deeply rooted and connected to it. For me, I never got caught up in thinking about what other people might think.” He’s acutely aware that people may judge him. In fact, they used to doubt he could come anywhere close to grasping the complexities of Frank’s guitar playing, but he’s proved them all wrong. “Any direct comparison is usually the kind of thing people want to avoid,” he says. “But the fact that I’m playing my dad’s music and you can have a very direct comparison to the quality level, that actually did a lot more to solidify in people’s minds what my exact skill set was. To play Frank’s music is very, very hard. To play it well, it doesn’t matter who it is, you’re going to be able to tell the person has a lot of dedication and proficiency on their instrument. That generated more interest in my music because of that. Before that, people were much more
dismissive. It’s that doubleedge sword. At this point, I’m making a record for the first time in 10 years. It will be interesting to see what people think of this record because it’s way different from anything I’ve ever done before.” Learning Frank’s complex body of work is quite the undertaking. When the project first started in 2006, it was incredibly difficult for Dweezil to mimic the orchestral type of sounds Frank was famous for creating. “Early on, there were all the unknowns,” he says. “You sort of find a way to create your best learning process. What I had to do early on is completely overhaul my approach to guitar and even more difficult was to overhaul the mental approach. My Dad’s playing is so unorthodox, you have to have at least some of the same tools he was using to be able to play his music. That was a couple years of work before I even started doing the band. Then over the past decade, a lot more stuff has creeped in. It’s always challenging to learn new things, especially some of the hard compositions. There are times in the early days where I would have to learn and practice something, it might be two-seconds of music, but I would have to play it for
hours and hours every day for months before it would even sink in.” Zappa Plays Zappa is back on the road again, which isn’t abnormal. They tour…a lot. Songs like “Black Page,” “Dog Meat,” “Inca Rose,” and “The Beatbop Tango” are some of Frank’s hardest songs, but they are on the setlist of nearly every show. It’s a testament to Dweezil’s immense talent, and sometimes he feels as if his father is there, guiding him along. “There’s times where I will play something that will be so reminiscent of something he would do, even though I’m improvising,” he says. “Sometimes I’ll play something and I don’t know if that was me that played that. I would have so many questions for him musically [ if he were alive today]. There’s so many things that I’ve learned in the process of working on his music. I always was a fan and respected what he did, but the more I dig into the details, the more amazed I am at what he was able to do in such a short amount of time. He not only had all the quality, but he worked at an amazing, proficient speed. Unless people really know, they can’t understand.” Photo Courtesy of Truefire.com
BandWagon Tips: Zappa Plays Zappa, October 1, at Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 7 p.m. Tickets are $25. Visitwww.bouldertheater.com for more information.
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It’s Going Down:
Plays the Moxi
Kyle Eustice
BandWagon Magazine
Miami-based rap collective ¡Mayday! never imagined a superstar like Lil’ Wayne would gravitate towards their music. But sure enough, while Lil’ Wayne was shooting a video for his rock-inspired album, Rebirth, the director suggested ¡Mayday! to appear in a video. Naturally, emcees Bernz and Wreckonize, and band members Gianni Cash, LT Hopkins, Plex Luthor, and NonMS jumped at the opportunity. “Miami is a small place,” Bernz says. “Everybody knows everybody, especially in the music business and that’s also the case in the film business. While the video was being filmed, we knew we’d be bored in between takes on such a big shoot. We made sure to connect all the amps, which are usually left disconnected during shoots, so we could jam out in between takes. When we did, Wayne would freestyle and vibe. At the end of the shoot, he invited us to the
next one and to play his ‘going away party.’ “Then on the next video we did with him, he took off what he was wearing and wore a ¡Mayday! shirt that we gifted him for the whole video,” he continues. “It was a crazy moment for us. And a complete wrap from there on out.” At the time, Lil’ Wayne was about to serve his time at Riker’s Island. With that behind him, he’s moved on to other things while ¡Mayday! is steering the course to international recognition. In 2011, the band got another surprise when Kansas City-based rapper Tech N9ne asked them to appear on his Welcome to Strangeland album. Shortly after, ¡Mayday! was offered a record deal with Tech’s label, Strange Music. “I think the combination of the music, live show, seeing us in the Lil’ Wayne and T-Pain videos all kind of turned into a momentum that Tech and Strange Music really
connected with,” he says. It’s almost a miracle they got out of Miami. The scene is typically dominated by DJs so at first it was tough to get noticed, but they had a plan of attack. “The Miami scene was wide open for original hard working musicianship,” he explains. “A void exists in the live performance department. We came in like a megaton bomb and started doing a weekly show. It was initially at South Beach and eventually we moved the party downtown. We were selling out shows from the get-go. We cut our teeth playing after a DJ in a dance club type setting so that morphed into the high energy style we have.” Currently pushing their sixth studio album, Future/Vintage, the guys are anxious to get back on the road. “I like the energy exchange with the fans, the release of adrenaline and the opportunity to see our music have legs to go places we physically
have never been,” he says. “What I hate about performing is the hours away from your family and the day to day grind of traveling.” Although he admits songwriting didn’t come easy for him, he’s learned a lot from mentors like Tech N9ne. “I’ve always been enamored by songwriting and the process,” he says. “I started penning songs at a young age. At first, verses came easily, but that ever elusive hook’ was everything. Slowly and with a lot of practice, we finally got to a place where it’s a part of us and what we do.” The new album is scheduled for a September 18 release. In the meantime, ¡Mayday! will be on the road, enjoying their whiskey and feeling gratitude for the position they’re in right now. “It feels amazing and reaffirming,” he says. “I always knew through hard work we would be somewhere special.”
TIP: IN CONCERT @ Moxi Theater in Greeley Weds. Sept 16TH 2015
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FIVE QUESTIONS FOR
THE COLLECTION
Jeff Cook
BandWagon Magazine How do you describe the kind of music you compose and what are some primary influences for you? Friends who have come to the shows have categorized us as “Big Band Americana.” One of our players says we’re “marching band folk rock.” We’ve got an orchestral, acoustic sound. Our influences are kind of all over the map. I love really good songwriters, artist like Paul Simon, Tom White, and Typhoon. I love the last Alabama Shakes album.
What’s it like to compose with such a large band?
The Collection started as a solo project, finding people who were interested in playing with me. I compose about 70% of a song and let it transform. But that’s changing. We’re trying for huge arrangements now and allowing the writing to be more collaborative. We record with over 20 players, but we’re touring with just a seven piece consisting of people who want to do this full time: drums, bass, me singing and playing acoustic. We have an electric/banjo/ didgeridoo player. A trombone/trumpet, accordion, and a clarinet. What is your live show like? I’m more comfortable with seven pieces now because the seven really commit. We can practice 3-4 times a week. But I do miss the sense of community when it was bigger. For me, our shows are a euphoric experience. I try to write higher lines knowing that I could only hit those
notes if I put my full body behind it. The music is written for full engagement. At shows, I love the sense that everyone’s united and connected even when they don’t know each other. Someone said, “The beautiful thing about music is you can be on stage singing and there can be a thousand people singing back to you for a thousand different reasons.” The band name came from describing the uniting of people, despite differences. We are not necessarily sure why we’re here, but the music connects us. I’m lucky to be a part of that.
the roots of humanity. So both quit their high paying jobs and they’re now organic farmers. We went to their farm for a writing retreat. The only place I get my head clear, being out in nature. Its what’s wrong with death. Death is unnatural.
You often elevate organic imagery on your album Ari Moriendi: “I planted a garden full of things that turned out rotten.” “I return back to the piles of dirt that I came from before it hurt and wonder how my rib could make her walk.” Talk about spirituality expressed in agricultural imagery.
Doubt seems individual but it’s really multifaceted. Doubt is a means of wrestling and seeking. When I doubt, I feel like I’m being carried. So when I see others in doubt, I see it as a healthy sign that someone is looking for truth and being held.
We were at a festival and played “Gown of Green.” Two folks, both lawyers spoke with us and said they’d been challenged with their lives and wanted to get back to
The Collection will play at the Moxi Theater on September 21st with Lowland Hum, Giants and Pilgrims, and Matt Davis.
When speaking of doubt it’s not always your own, but more emotionally impacting to me is the doubt of those around you, and claims of hope, not that God will meet you but that God will carry those around you. Would you speak to God’s hiddenness to those you care for?
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COMMUNITY SPOTLIGHT
Jay Wallace
BandWagon Magazine
“I wanted to be a writer as a kid,” author Connie Willis says. “I can’t remember a time when I didn’t want to be a writer and didn’t make up stories and things.” Willis is an award-winning, Greeley-based science fiction author responsible for 1992’s Doomsday Book. She grew up with “girls’ books” such as Little Women and Anne of Green Gables, but eventually discovered the work of sci-fi author Robert Heinlein and fell in love with science fiction. Soon, she had devoured all the science fiction she could find at her library, including The Year’s Best Short Story Collections. “They were wonderful,” she says. “I got them even more than Heinlein. I think that was what converted me to science fiction, because you had all these very different writers doing a whole variety of different stories. I was just completely blown away by how many different things you could do with science fiction, and it wasn’t one kind of story, it wasn’t one kind of character. You could do almost anything.” Willis says she was completely convinced that she wanted to write science fiction, but not novels. “I still want to write short stories,” she said. “I spent the first ten to fifteen years of my career writing
exclusively short stories.” Despite her interest in just writing short stories, Willis eventually published her first novel Lincoln Streams. She said she was backed into it by her writer’s workshop. “Everybody said, ‘This needs to be included, this needs to be included.’ I was like, ‘oh, okay, I think this is actually a novel and I can’t do it at this shorter length,’” she says. “So that’s why I wrote my first novel. I did not become a convert to novels. I write novels, but I also write short stories.” Since 1980, Willis has been regularly published with a majority of her work focusing on time travel, particularly a series of her books focusing on a distant future Oxford that sends historians back to certain time periods for research purposes, such as World War II and The Black Death. When she first started writing, however, time travel was considered a dead genre. “Time travel has been a part of science fiction from the very beginning,” Willis explains. “It had been very popular in the 1940s and ‘50s and then it kind of died out, and so when I wrote Fire Watch, nobody was writing time travel, so that was a very different kind of thing. When I took it to workshop, everybody said, ‘Time Travel is
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dead. This is ridiculous. You can’t write a time travel story. They’re dead.’ I’m like, ‘Well, it won’t be dead after I write this one.’” Willis says that a ton of authors do follow trends, such as zombies and vampires, but she personally thinks it’s a dead end for writers, adding that trend-followers publish faster but also die faster. “All you have to offer is your own personal view of the world and your own unique thing,” she says. “I think the most successful writers are the ones who follow their own star. There are millions of ideas that float past you everyday, all the time. But it’s the ones that emotionally grab you I think are the ones you should be writing about, and if you’re emotionally grabbed by it, then your readers will be.” Willis also mentioned another dead-end for writers: e-books and self publishing. While Willis is a fan of e-books, she is not into self-publishing or self-published works. “I think people think of it as a short-cut,” she says. “They’re not edited. I don’t know if you read self-published things, but they’re terrible. They need editors, and they need copy editing, obviously, for grammar and punctuation and spelling. I was at a library
conference that had millions of these self-published authors. There was an 18-year-old girl there who had published her fourth novel, and she was like, ‘You should really buy it, it’s really good.’ I was like, ‘No, it’s not, without even looking at it because you’re 18-years-old.’ And maybe she’s a genius, but she still needs editing. The New York Times did a piece not too long ago where they said the average amount of money made by a selfpublished novel, online: $753 a year. It’s a dead-end for writers.” Willis recommended starting in short stories, submitting to magazines, both print and online. “I know people who only write novels and they’ve sold their novels. It’s hard to sell a novel without being agented,” she says. “There’s lots of way to get noticed. If you are good enough, you will be successful. If you are good enough, they won’t be able to ignore you, whatever the system is. You have to focus not on the selling, but on the writing. The writing has to be the main focus.” For aspiring writers interested in seeing Willis in public soon, Willis will be teaching a writer’s workshop on plotting for ReadCon, hosted by High Plains Library, at Zoe’s Suite 100 on September 12 from 3-4 p.m.
For more information, visit Willis’ blog at http://www.sftv.org/cw/
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Modest Indeed Get with Isaac Brock BY KYLE EUSTICE • BANDWAGON MAGAZINE
“I’m a shot in the dark mother fucker,” Isaac Brock says. “If I want to try something out, there’s a good chance that the person I want to get ahold of might not be busy and this may be interesting to them.” Such was the case with Johnny Marr, former Smiths guitarist, who teamed up with the Modest Mouse frontman for a short stint in 2006. It’s almost a testament to Brock’s relevance as a musician, when a legend like Marr is willing to join your band —not that Modest Mouse has anything to prove. They’ve attained more longevity than most bands. As vocalist and guitarist, Brock has plenty of stories to tell, and every single one of them is packed with precise detail; clearly a gift he translates into songwriting. Formed in 1993, Modest Mouse has put out a total of six studio albums, culminating with this year’s Strangers to Ourselves. It’s a catalog brimming with musical genius and nothing less. The first video for the track, “Coyotes,” makes it clear Brock has a fondness for animals. However, he wishes he would have named his band something different when they were getting started in the early ‘90s. Nonetheless, twenty-two years later, Modest Mouse is one of indie rock’s biggest success stories, something he didn’t necessarily see coming. “I had some required reading that I don’t remember anything about,” Brock says. “It was a Virginia Wolf book. I do remember not giving a shit about the story or anything. Being a young teenager, I was thinking about what was
important to me and that was finding a band name. I thought about it every waking fucking hour. I came across a phrase like ‘modest mouse killer people,’ referring to the working class. If I had to do it over again, I would choose like a million other names; being cute really ain’t really my fucking deal and I really didn’t think I was being cute because of the context of the sentence.” Cute or not, Modest Mouse has amassed a legion of fans who seem to worship the ground Brock walks on, but he’s had his share of struggles. Then there’s the song “Good Times Are Killing Me,” off 2004’s Good News For People Who Love Bad News, where he’s basically confessing his struggles with substance abuse. “Oh, it’s kind of a struggle that continues to go on,” he admits. “I’m going to skip getting into too much detail about that song because it’s just for me. I said about what I wanted to say in the song. Is that unfair? I’m sorry. I’m not too bothered about talking about it. I just don’t have much more to add to it. Being a nefarious dude, it’s pretty easy to me. I’m currently fighting that sort of shit.” At age 40, Brock has most likely learned some tough lessons along the way; about himself, the music business and everything else. While recording Strangers to Ourselves, he wound up creating a makeshift studio in his Portland, Oregon home he deemed the “Ice Cream Party.” It was both a blessing and a curse.
tting Personal of Modest mouse “I walked out of this project a fairly different person from when I walked in,” he says. “Without the limitation of time, you can really do a lot. If we had been recording at a studio we were renting, they’re going to have someone else on the books coming in on a certain date and wanting us the fuck out of there. One thing we do is take time for granted. We are amazingly adept at hanging out. We enjoy each other’s company and shit, which is surprising that we haven’t gotten bored of jibber-jabbin’. That’s one of the pitfalls is you can just do that for eight hours and then do some work. The people we had come on board to work on this, they’re not operating on this schedule. They can’t hang out with Modest Mouse for three solid years while we hone in on a sound. Throughout the day, you can be pretty creative and work as many hours as you want. Days started blurring together pretty god damn easily. I would fall asleep here, wake up and start working again.” At the end of the process, the 15-track effort that resulted from those studio sessions was another piece of art Brock could proudly stand behind, whether critics agreed or not. Pitchfork, naturally, didn’t have too many nice things to say, going as far as calling the song “Pistol” the “worst song Brock has ever recorded.” Nonetheless, to true Modest Mouse fans, it’s a triumph. It retains the authentic Modest Mouse sound Brock has become so successful with. From “Pups to Dust,” and “Shit In Your Cut,” to “The Best Room,” and “The Ground
Walks, With Time In A Box,” it’s solid from beginning to end. “I don’t put out records unless I really love everything on the fucking record,” he says. “Time might change that. After I put out a record, having heard a song enough times, I might be like, ‘I don’t care for it, but oh well.’ I never put out a record I have any misgivings about what I’m putting on it. It’s a record of my favorite songs. I kept the 30 or 40 songs I wrote. It’s not that I didn’t like them. I just didn’t like them enough.” As Modest Mouse continues its expansive tour in support of the new album, Brock’s opinion on touring has changed over the years. “It used to be the driving,” he says. “Now the worst part is the waiting, really. It’s idle time and waking up almost every day behind a venue where the dumpsters are. We’re doing bus tours now and there are eight people playing on stage so it’s more work. Also, figuring out how to eat healthily. Your eating gets really fucked up. I don’t really have a schedule right now. It’s seemingly detrimental. There aren’t a lot of places with late night, healthy options. So what do we eat after the show? Most of us don’t eat four to five hours before the show. I pretty much don’t. I might nibble, but I don’t eat until after I play the show. People would say, ‘I got pizza’ and I would lose my shit like, ‘That’s not food! It’s just filler. Quit getting pizza. Don’t fucking do this please. It’s killing me.’” PHOTO BY BEN MOON COURTESY OF MODEST MOUSE
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COLORaDO CONCERT CALENDAR Tuesday September 1st The Jauntee @ Hodi’s Half Note Ft. Collins – 8:00pm w/ Whiskey Tango Stubby Tuesdays w/ Stubby Shillelaghs @ Patrick’s Irish Pub, Greeley—9pm Toxic Holocaust @ The Marquis Theater Denver — 7pm w/ Lord Dying, BattleSpawn and Arise In Chaos Daryl Hall & John Oates @ Red Rocks, Morrison— 7:30pm
Greeley - 7-9pm Trapt @ Marquis Theater Denver - 7pm w/ Autumn Burn
Matt Easton x Academy @ Hodi’s Half Note Ft. Collins — 8pm w/ Special Guests Karaoke @ The Jager Greeley—9pm
Dave and Dave of Trampled By Turtles @ Hodi’s Half Note Ft. Collins – 8:00pm Open Mic @ Patrick’s Irish Pub Greeley— 9pm
Brownout @ The Larimer Lounge Denver—9pm
Vinyl Listening Party @ Wiley Roots
Friday September 4th @ Moxi Theater
Teague and the Alyson Jazz Duo @ Wiley Roots, Greeley - 7-9pm
Today’s Paramount @ Marquis Theater Ft. Collins - 7pm w/ Facial, See You Home Wolf Shane Henderson @ The Larimer Lounge Denver—6pm w/ Dan Aid and Chris Heckman
WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 2ND
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THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 3RD FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 4TH JMSN @ The Moxi Theater Greeley—8pm w/ Duchovny, Futurebabes, A. Zebra The Covs @ Hodi’s Half Note Ft. Collins — 8pm Black Stone Cherry @ Marquis Theater Denver - 7pm w/ Luna Sol Griz @ Red Rocks Morrison — 6:30pm KUNC and KTCL Presents the Oh Hellos @ The Mishawaka, Bellvue— 6pm w/ Pandas and People, Brett Jarnagin
SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 5TH Totally ‘80s Party! With RETRO The Ultimate ‘80s tribute band @ The Moxi Theater, Greeley—8pm Vertical Arrays @ Hodi’s Half Note Ft. Collins — 8pm w/ Pressbox, The Little Black Bottles Sunboy @ The Hi- Dive Denver—8:30pm w/ Wild High, Flaural World Like Ours @ Marquis Theater Denver - 7pm w/ It’s Always Sunny In Tijuana, The Outbreak, Vaalbara, My Ascension Brian Regan @ Red Rocks Morrison— 8pm Mittis @ The Larimer Lounge Denver—8:30pm w/ Subtheory, Paws
SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 6TH Illegal Pete’s 20th Anniversary With Lucero @ Red Rocks, Morrison— 7pm
MONDAY SEPTEMBER 7TH
Stand Up Comedy 7pm, Funk Jam 10pm @ Hodi’s Half Note Live Like Glass @ The Larimer Lounge Denver—8pm w/ My Ascension, Reality At It’s Finest
TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 8TH
Tim McGraw @ Red Rocks Morrison— 7pm
Stubby Tuesdays w/ Stubby Shillelaghs @ Patrick’s Irish Pub, Greeley—9pm
FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 11TH
Faith No More @ Red Rocks Morrison— 8pm
WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 9TH Open Mic @ Patrick’s Irish Pub Greeley— 9pm Tim McGraw @ Red Rocks Morrison— 7pm FIDLAR @ Marquis Theater Denver - 7pm w/ Dune Rats On An On @ The Larimer Lounge Denver—8pm w/ Eliot Summer, Dosh
THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 10TH The Burroughs @ Wiley Roots Greeley - 7-9pm
KUNC Presents Jimmy Cliff @ Mishawaka, Bellvue— 8pm w/ Dwight Richards and Policulture Karaoke @ The Jager Greeley—9pm Heritage @ Marquis Theater Denver - 7pm w/ Rokahueka
Buck-O-Nine @ Hodi’s Half Note Ft. Collins - 8pm w/ Nobodys STS9 @ Red Rocks Morrison—7:30pm Bowling For Soup @ Marquis Theater Denver - 7pm w/ The Dollyrots Ivory Tribes Radkey @ The Larimer Lounge Denver—8pm w/ Slow Caves, LSD Bags Natural Child @ The Hi-Dive Denver—8:30pm w/ Best Creeps
SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 12TH Fist Fight @ The Moxi Theater Greeley—8pm w/ ELETE, Run Traitor Run, Draghoria Juno What!? @ Hodi’s Half Note 8pm w/ special guests Trichome Buck-O-Nine @ The Marquis Theater Denver - 7pm w/ The Nobodys, The Reprecussions, The A-Ok’s STS9 @ Red Rocks Morrison—7:30pm
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15 SQUARE BLOCKS FOUR DISPENSARIES ONE HOOKAH BAR ALWAYS A GOOD TIME
A.F. Ray ( founder of Garden City)
It has been rumored that during the prohibition of alcohol, A.F. Ray supplied the residents of Weld County with bootlegged booze hidden in watermelons from his own patch.
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Counting Crows @ Red Rocks Morrison—7pm The Coathangers @ The Larimer Lounge Denver—9pm Christian Mistress @ The Hi-Dive Denver—8:30pm w/ Khemmis, smolder and burn, Heavy Dose Djs
THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 17TH John Bunzil @ Wiley Roots Greeley - 7-9pm The Shaley Scott Band @ Hodi’s Half Note Ft. Collins — 8pm w/ The Seers Karaoke @ The Jager Greeley—9pm
Kyle Hollingsworth Band Saturday September 19th @ Mishawaka
Wave Racer @ The Larimer Lounge Denver—9pm
SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 13TH KBCO Presents David Grisman Bluegrass Experience @ Mishawaka, Bellvue—6pm w/ Jeff Austin Band “The Angels Bathwater Tour with Illmaculate & Onlyone Myke Bogan Goldini Bagwell DJ Spark (of Sandpeople) “ @ Hodi’s Half Note— 7pm
Sunday BBQ Series: The Skull @ The Larimer Lounge Denver—3pm w/ Master Ferocious, Alterity, Still Valley, Witchfinger
Stubby Tuesdays w/ Stubby Shillelaghs @ Patrick’s Irish Pub, Greeley—9pm
MONDAY SEPTEMBER 14TH
Ben Harper & The Innocent Criminals @ Red Rocks Morrison—7pm
Stand Up Comedy 7pm, Funk Jam 10pm @ Hodi’s Half Note, Ft. Collins
The Mynabirds @ The Hi-Dive Denver—8:30pm w/ Bad Bad Hats, Natalie Tate
Black Pussy @ The Larimer Lounge Denver—9pm w/ Ape Machine, Cloud Catcher, Smolder & Burn
O.A.R @ Red Rocks Morrison— 6:30pm
TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 15TH
Black Crown Initiate @ Marquis Theater Denver - 7pm
Micawber @ The Moxi Theater Greeley—8pm w/ Morbid Asphyxiation, Retract
WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 16TH ¡MayDay! @ The Moxi Theater Greeley—8pm Bright Light @ Hodi’s Half Note Ft. Collins — 8pm w/ Social Hour, Skydyed Open Mic @ Patrick’s Irish Pub Greeley— 9pm
The Lighthouse and The Whaler @ The Larimer Lounge Denver—9pm w/ Born Cages Lincoln Duham @ Marquis Theater Denver - 7pm w/ Jordan Nichols Dave Chappelle @ Red Rocks Morrison—8pm
FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 18TH My Favorite Bands Music Fest @ The Moxi Theater Greeley—9pm Lincoln Durham *Make Up Show!* @ Hodi’s Half Note Ft. Collins—8pm w/ Caleb James theNEWDEAL @ Mishawaka Bellvue— 8pm w/ jackLNDN, Sam Warren
The Glorious Suns @ Marquis Theater Denver - 7pm Redlands @ The Larimer Lounge Denver—8pm w/ 888, Never Let This Go, Defy You Stars, Dallas Garcia, Kimi Most Railroad Earth @ Red Rocks Morrison—6pm Tim Barry @ The Hi-Dive Denver—7pm w/ Jon Snodgrass, Ol’ Hickory
SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 19TH Jordan Roberts & CO @ The Moxi Theater Greeley—8pm w/ Connor Terrones, Ashlee Varner, Kenneth Brown, Tyler Jensen, Cody Mowrey Apumpalyptica @ Wiley Roots Greeley - 7-9pm Kyle Hollingsworth Band @ Mishawaka Bellvue —8pm w/ The Magic Beans Von Stomper CD RELEASE @ Hodi’s Half Note Ft. Collins—8pm w/ Special Guest Tallgrass The Deer Hunter @ Marquis Denver - 7pm w/ Chon, Gates Eagle Rock Gospel Singers @ The Hi-Dive Denver—8:30pm w/ Hillstomp, Kind Cardinal Grace Potter @ Red Rocks Morrison—6:30pm
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NATHANIEL RATELIFF AND THE NIGHT SWEATS Saturday September 26th @ Mishawaka
SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 20TH Ben Miller Band @ Hodi’s Half Note Ft. Collins—7pm
Sam Riggs @ The Black Sheep Colorado Springs—7pm w/ Charles Briseno
THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 24TH
Thundercat @ The Larimer Lounge Denver—9pm
Casey Ward @ Hodi’s Half Note Ft. Collins—7pm
Rose Quartz @ The Hi-Dive Denver—8pm w/ Sur Ellz, Bollywood Life, Izrwlf
Karaoke @ The Jager Greeley—9pm
Duran Duran @ Red Rocks Morrison—6:30pm
MONDAY SEPTEMBER 21ST The Collection @ The Moxi Theater Greeley—8pm w/ Lowland Hum, Giants & Pilgrims, Matt Davis Steve’N’Seagulls @ The Larimer Lounge Denver—9pm
TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 22ND For The Win @ The Moxi Theater Greeley—8pm Stubby Tuesdays w/ Stubby Shillelaghs @ Patrick’s Irish Pub, Greeley—9pm Marty Freedman @ Marquis Theater Denver - 7pm w/ Cellador Tyler Ward @ The Larimer Lounge Denver—8pm
WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 23RD Open Mic @ Patrick’s Irish Pub Greeley— 9pm Digg Album Release @ Hodi’s Half Note Ft. Collins—8pm w/ Spoonfed Tribe Lowland Hum @ The Hi-Dive Denver—8:30pm w/ The Collection, The Hunger Artist A Night With Mark Knopfler @ Red Rocks, Morrison—8pm
The Burroughs @ Wiley Roots Greeley - 7-9pm Blanket Empire @ The Hi- Dive Denver— 8:30pm w/ Foxxes, Sleep Academy Get The Led Out @ Red Rocks Morrison—7:30 Doomsday For the Destroyer @ Marquis Theater Denver - 7pm w/ Chin Check, 1862, Lockjaw
FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 25TH Nak2School @ The Moxi Theater Greeley—8pm RowdyTown 4: Big Gigantic @ Red Rocks, Morrison—6:30pm A Place To Bury Strangers @ The Larimer Lounge Denver—9pm w/ Grooms, Emerald Siam Red bull Sound Select Presents: Viet Cong @ Marquis Theater Denver - 9pm w/ Eros and Eschaton, SPELLS
SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 26TH RowdyTown 4: Big Gigantic @ Red Rocks, Morrison—6:30pm Nathiel Rateliff @ Mishawaka Bellvue—8pm w/ The Night Sweats, Paper Bird
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Elenor Tallie September 30th @ Moxi Theater
Larimer Block Party 2015: Del The Funky Homosapien, BadBadNotGood, Joywave, Sango @ The Larimer Lounge, Denver—1pm
Arkona @ Marquis Theater Ft. Collins - 7pm w/ Helsótt
The Addicts @ Marquis Theater Denver - 7pm w/ The Bad Engrish
Shannon and The Clams @ The Larimer Lounge Denver—9pm
Reykjavik Calling @ The Hi-Dive Denver—8pm w/ Martina and James of The Land Line, Anna Morsett, Mr. Silla
Nick Diamonds @ The Hi-Dive Denver—8:30pm
SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 27TH Twenty One Pilots @ Red Rocks Morrison—7pm Jon Foreman @ Marquis Theater Denver - 7pm w/ Tyson Motsenbocker, Sarah Slaton (of Edison) The Donkeys @ The Hi- Dive Denver—8:30pm w/ The Knew, Roy G Biv
MONDAY SEPTEMBER 28TH Stand Up Comedy 7pm, Funk Jam 10pm @ Hodi’s Half Note, Ft. Collins
TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 29TH Stubby Tuesdays w/ Stubby Shillelaghs @ Patrick’s Irish Pub, Greeley—9pm
WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 30TH Eleanor Tallie (Formerly of The Ori Naftaly Band) @ The Moxi Theater Greeley—7pm Open Mic @ Patrick’s Irish Pub Greeley— 9pm o A$AP Rocky & Tyler the Creator @ Red Rocks Morrison—7pm
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A Breakdown on Booking Your Band
So you’ve written a handful of songs and your post reggae swing fusion band is ready for the next level, how do you proceed? As a witness to the lower levels of band development I have compiled a basic list of steps to get that post reggae swing fusion sound into the ears of possibly dozens of potential fans. 1) SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL SCENE This is in all caps because it is the most important. When you go to shows and support your peers you are building a network of contacts and friends who will in turn support you as you prepare to have post reggae swing fusion sweep the nation. At shows you will make friends with people who have the same goals as you and you will gain valuable insight into your own craft by watching
others. Yes, I know you’re 3) Record Somehow and Launch probably socially awkward but it’s Some Social Media a local show so everyone is. Just be nice and try to tell a joke from This doesn’t mean go blow five grand on two songs at a time to time. professional studio because your post reggae swing fusion band 2) Book Locally isn’t ready for the studio. If you To get your foot in the door do keep up on steps one and two the open mic thing then reach out you will probably meet someone to local promoters and venues to who will help you get a demo get that first gig at a place where for cheap. It doesn’t have to be your friends and family can all great it just needs to be a general come because they will. Having representation of your sound. your first show is like having a Along with some basic social quinceanera, everyone shows up media, this will help promoters because they love you and it’s an outside your region to decide how excuse to party. They might not little they want to pay you. show up much after they hear you play, but they do appreciate that 4) Accept Your Fate you put yourself out there. No one is expecting Prince’s performance Let’s face it, you suck. Post from Purple Rain so just give it reggae swing fusion sucks. I don’t your best and book more shows even know what it sounds like, but I do know it sounds like a bad to keep the momentum.
idea. Those songs you demoed for cheap probably suck and you’ll hate them after you’ve heard them three times and you wrote the songs. All the other bands in your scene suck too but worst of all, your band sucks more than they do. But that’s for a reason, because all those other bands have been doing it longer than you. So don’t get discouraged because everyone sucks when they start. Crew Rienstra of the LA-based band Bones Muhroni said it best in our recent interview that if you spend time comparing yourself to other bands “your head will literally explode. I’ve seen it happen.” Just accept your fate. Knowing that you suck is a huge relief because at least you’re not in denial anymore. Then you can focus on improving your weak points and begin making the music you want to make.
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