Save the date: CD release party for The Outfit

THE OUTFIT: These guys are kick-ass so I want to go out of my way to promote their CD release party for their debut full-length album, Broken West Wishbone Test.

The Outfit performed for Parker Library's Live Local Music Series last August, and I was knocked out by their performance.

I can see them doing BIG things down the road if they just keep on doing what they are doing, and if you were to check out their other CD from our collection, I know you would agree.

Save the date: The CD release party is Friday, May 6. They are playing with Colfax Speed Queen, The Dig and The Knew. (The Knew are also bad-ass!)
Very cool for The Outfit, they were featured in The Denver Post this week in the Steal This Track section, which is done by veteran music journalist Eryc Eyl, who has been "neck-deep" in local music for years and is a Colorado native.

Steal The Outfit clip at http://tinyurl.com/stealthistracktheoutfit.

Says Eyl about The Outfit: "The Outfit is straightforward, unapologetic rock and roll."

(Check out Steal This Track every Monday for new local music. The Mile High Makeout runs every Friday.)

Below is a clip of The Outfit doing the Live Local Music Series in late August. For more of our clips of them and other bands who have done the Live Local Series, see our YouTube channel.



(Photo and flier courtesy of the band. Video courtesy Parker Library's Live Local Music Series.)

News from Dinner with Cannibals ...

This just in from Denver-based Dinner With Cannibals:

For Immediate Release
Dinner With Cannibals release their first full-length album, Sweetlord

As a result of blending classical sensibilities with electro and prog-punk, the Denver-based quartet Dinner with Cannibals has been labeled an "unholy glorious mess of a band." The band’s first full-length release, SweetLord, is no exception. The genre leaping songs presented on SweetLord allow the band’s self-indulgent angst to be carefully pitted against electronic influence and punk rock roots while maintaining a constant classical music underpinning.

Dinner With Cannibals flatter the indulgent angst of punk and electro with the charm and attention of progressive and classical music. Energetic and infectious, Dinner With Cannibals methodically teeter on the edge of the familiar, ambitiously defying categorization. Venturing far from boundary and wet with influences spanning genres, Dinner With Cannibals daringly finds themselves residing in the aesthetics of an indie-classical electro prog-punk hybrid.

News from the F.O.E. lines

We always keep up on F.O.E. because we LOVE him and his music -- and especially love his tweets -- so I asked him for a short update on what he's got going on. Here's his latest news, straight from his mouth to yours:

Locked in the studio only coming out for shows and new drug runs, this is my daily routine. I have been trying to put out a bunch of new good music this year, working with a couple of different producers and artists with hopes of releasing six solo projects this year. At this moment I am recording projects with Lokon and Al Catone for EPs to be released in a few months, along with some videos to go along with each project.

I have also started a new venture with a group called BLKHRTS (other members: Yonnas of The Pirate Signal & Karma) we released a project in January that has done pretty well, & we were also honored with Westword's Best New Band of 2011. We are currently recording songs to be released monthly starting late April, first single is called "Sex, Drugs, Violence, Money & Death" which will be available on www.BLKHRTS.com.

I have a few tours coming up both solo and with my group throughout the U.S. and hopefully if everything goes as planned we will be in Europe in the winter. You can stay posted with ALL I do at www.KingFOE.com. Oh yea vote BLKHRTS & KingFOE in Westword's Music Showcase, NOW!!!!

Watch my favorite F.O.E. clip from his show here ...

Artist review: Fred Hess Big Band

Fred Hess Big Band -- Into the Open [LP]
By Jeanie Straub
JStraub@ColoradoMusicBuzz.com

Fred Hess is one to beat. In the Colorado music scene, few are as prolific or as worthy of writing home about as jazz composer Hess, whose website motto says he is “committed to exploring the boundaries of notated and improvised music.” Hess, a saxophonist and coordinator of Jazz Studies at Metropolitan State College of Denver, most recently has put out a CD with a big band overflowing with immense talent, including favorite Ron Miles. If Into the Open is any indication, Hess and his band-mates are living up to the commitment to pushing the edge: It just isn’t possible for music to be any more energizing than this. Hess’s own background is that he completed a doctorate in music composition from the University of Colorado, Boulder, in 1991. He first attended the Creative Music Studio in Woodstock, N.Y. (1979) and founded the Boulder Creative Music Ensemble (1982), was the founding director of Denver’s Creative Music Works Orchestra (1993) and was a member of drummer Ginger Baker’s Denver Jazz Quintet. He has recorded 14 CDs under his own name and twice received Colorado’s Composition Fellowship (1986, 1994), won Denver’s inaugural Hennessey Jazz Search (1991), the Jazz Composers Alliance, Julius Hemphill Award (2000), and first prize at the First International Jazz Composers Symposium (2006). Even without all this, his latest CD is an inspiration. If you don’t think you’re into improvisational jazz or haven’t invested much time with the genre, Into the Open is about to convert you. It makes an outstanding introduction and is lip-smacking for aficionados.

The Fred Hess Big Band: Fred Hess (leader/composer, tenor saxophone); John Gunther (alto saxophone); Johan Eriksson (alto saxophone); Peter Sommer (tenor saxophone); Mark Harris (baritone saxophone); Brad Goode (trumpet); Dave Rajewski (trumpet); Al Hood (trumpet); Ron Miles (trumpet); Tom Ball (trombone); Nelson Hinds (trombone); Hoyt Andres (trombone); Gary Mayne (bass trombone); Marc Sabetella (piano); Ken Filiano (bass); Matt Wilson (drums); Tyler Gilmore (conductor)

CD due out from female-fronted rock/metal band Born in Winter

Born in Winter, a female-fronted rock/metal band from Denver, has a new album in the works that will be available online May 1.

Stay tuned for CD release party dates and tour dates!

https://twitter.com/borninwinter
http://www.myspace.com/borninwinter

Kantankerous clips ...

Three members of Kantankerous play "Lonesome with You" (Stanley Brothers)



One more great music clip -- three of Kantankerous members play "Foggy Mountain Special" (Earl Scruggs)

Come to our outdoor show on 04/30!