Again we venture to continue our series of intros, keep checking back with us for more introductory interviews with some of the many talented acts that are playing the Underground Music Showcase (UMS) this year! If you don't already know the UMS is one of the most enjoyable weekends in Denver and hopefully all of our readership comes out to have a good time and support local, and national, music at this amazing festival!
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Saturday July 25th 1:00AM (Late Friday Night)
Hi-Dive
Where/ When are you playing for the UMS?
We headline the Hi-Dive on Friday 1:00am (technically Saturday
morning).
In twenty-five words or less, describe what somebody who has never
heard of you/your band might expect from your performance at UMS this year.
Rock & Roll.
What was the first music you remember using your own money to buy?
Kyle: Led Zeppelin, How The West Was Won
Ty: The Strokes, This Is It
Jake: Outcast, The Love Below/Speakerboxx
Do you have any advice for new bands?
More Guitars, Less Computers.
Have you planned out who you want to see at UMS this year? Who are
some of your highlights?
DIIV, Freaky North, Wild High, Sunboy, Flaural.
If you've been to UMS before, what three words would you use to
describe it?
You A Mess.
What has been your most memorable experience at UMS to date?
Brett Rowley being in town.
Any tips you'd like to give the novices for making the UMS
experience even better?
You’ve got to meet this dude, Brett Rowley (Rebecca Black
Sabbath).
Is there any place you're looking forward to eating during UMS?
Illegal Pete’s.
What is your favorite shop on South Broadway?
Buffalo Exchange.
Who is your all time favorite Colorado band?
Gauntlet Hair.
Is there anything we forgot to ask you about the UMS that you
think people need to know?
Yes.
RAH
Will Scheisser - drums
Daniel Greenblatt - guitar
Rebecca Henry - vocals
www.rahband.com
www.facebook.com/listentorah
Saturday July 25th 11:00PM
Hornet Restaurant
Where/ When are you playing for the UMS?
Saturday, 11pm, The Hornet
In twenty-five words or less, describe what somebody who has never
heard of you/your band might expect from your performance at UMS this year.
Tight space, sweat, flying members, real people playing real
instruments, skin on metal and suspended wood, more sweat, guitar loops, heavy
drums, wild lady vocalist.
What was the first music you remember using your own money to
buy?
Will: Boyz 2 Men, CooleyHighHarmony
Daniel: Blink 182, Take Off Your Pants and Jacket
Rebecca: Deana Carter, Did I Shave My Legs for This
Do you have any advice for new bands?
Will: Figure out what you actually do well and then fucking do it,
with no pretension and no need for friends or anyone’s approval.
Daniel: Don’t try and sell hippy rocks to me at your shows.
Rebecca: Why are you reading this? Go outside and play!
Have you planned out who you want to see at UMS this year? Who are
some of your highlights?
Rowdy Shadehouse, STRFKR, Bollywood Life
Will: Joy Subtraction , Spells, Snubluck, Party Hard, Kitty
Crimes, Il Cattivo, I Sank Molly Brown, Gin Doctors performing Green Day’s
Dookie, Deer Creek, Accordion Crimes
If you've been to UMS before, what three words would you use to
describe it?
Poop salad sandwich!
Any tips you'd like to give the novices for making the UMS
experience even better?
Come to The Hornet, Saturday 11pm
Is there any place you're looking forward to eating during UMS?
Sputnik, food trucks
What is your favorite shop on South Broadway?
Music Gear Guys
Who is your all time favorite Colorado band?
Bollywood Life
There's An Ape For That
Sunday July 26th 9:00PM
Sputnik
Where/ When are you playing for the UMS?
the ape will be providing musical entertainment for humans on Sunday July 26th at 9pm.
the ape will be providing musical entertainment for humans on Sunday July 26th at 9pm.
the
name of the venue is sputnik.
In twenty-five words or less, describe what somebody who has never heard of you/your band might expect from your performance at UMS this year.
the ape djs using bargain-bin and thrift store records, which are then dispersed to the humans to take home.
What was the first music you remember using your own money to buy?
in his youth, the ape saved his pennies to purchase an lp called "disco fever".
In twenty-five words or less, describe what somebody who has never heard of you/your band might expect from your performance at UMS this year.
the ape djs using bargain-bin and thrift store records, which are then dispersed to the humans to take home.
What was the first music you remember using your own money to buy?
in his youth, the ape saved his pennies to purchase an lp called "disco fever".
it
wast twenty-five cents.
it
skipped.
the
ape played it anyway.
Do you have any advice for new bands?
do not attempt to fit in.
be true to yourself, and let others surround you until you fit in naturally.
Have you planned out who you want to see at UMS this year? Who are some of your highlights?
the ape is especially interested in what the human djs will be doing.
there is always so much to learn.
If you've been to UMS before, what three words would you use to describe it?
Do you have any advice for new bands?
do not attempt to fit in.
be true to yourself, and let others surround you until you fit in naturally.
Have you planned out who you want to see at UMS this year? Who are some of your highlights?
the ape is especially interested in what the human djs will be doing.
there is always so much to learn.
If you've been to UMS before, what three words would you use to describe it?
well-organized
chaos
What has been your most memorable experience at UMS to date?
there was an altercation with the voter-registration robot.
What has been your most memorable experience at UMS to date?
there was an altercation with the voter-registration robot.
the
ape is not proud of that encounter.
Any tips you'd like to give the novices for making the UMS experience even better?
form human-human (and human-ape) relationships.
music festivals should not be passive encounters.
the performers are reaching out to you - reach back.
Any tips you'd like to give the novices for making the UMS experience even better?
form human-human (and human-ape) relationships.
music festivals should not be passive encounters.
the performers are reaching out to you - reach back.
Is there any place you're looking forward to eating during UMS?
the ape has yet to find a decent banana smoothie within the confines of the ums.
the search will continue this year.
What is your favorite shop on South Broadway?
the crypt.
perhaps it would be best if you do not question the ape about this further.
Who is your all time favorite Colorado band?
the ape has yet to find a decent banana smoothie within the confines of the ums.
the search will continue this year.
What is your favorite shop on South Broadway?
the crypt.
perhaps it would be best if you do not question the ape about this further.
Who is your all time favorite Colorado band?
the
two colorado artists the ape is most likely to find cheap vinyl by are judy
collins and dan fogelberg.
Is there anything we forgot to ask you about the UMS that you think people need to know?
do not go to machines for entertainment.
there's an ape for that.
Is there anything we forgot to ask you about the UMS that you think people need to know?
do not go to machines for entertainment.
there's an ape for that.
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