It’s Saturday: Denver Post Underground Music Festival

August 8th, 2007

Hey y’all,

Saturday night my employer, the Post, throws its 7th-annual Underground Music Festival. Well, not Saturday night. Saturday afternoon, evening and night. It’s $10 before the show (tix at www.dpums.com), $12 day-of. I don’t know half the bands playing, and that’s a whole bunch of the fun.

Here’s more info on the event:

• YouTube videos of some of the bands playing
• Run-down on the winner of the underground-band-of-the-year poll
• More information about the bands playing
• A guide to the gig
• Fun facts and stuff
• The complete schedule
• Here’s some criticism about the lack of hip-hop at the festival

Finally, just in case you’re curious, here’s a list of some of the bands, djs and comedy acts playing:

Bands playing:

• Hot IQs
• Born in the Flood
• John Kuker & Trevor Trumble (of Everything Absent or Distorted)
• Black Lamb
• Ian Cooke
• Cowboy Curse
• Machine Gun Blues
• Porlolo
• the Swayback
• Tarmints
• Laylights
• Dent
• Signal to Noise
• Jeff Suthers (of Bright Channel)
• Monofog
• the Omens
• D. Biddle
• Frontside Five
• Bela Karoli
• Thank God For Astronauts
• Lion Sized
• Roger Green
• Nathan McGarvey and Stephen Till (of Nathan + Stephen)
• Gregory Alan Isakov
• Bad Luck City
• Reverend Deadeye
• Ghost Buffalo
• Rachael Pollard
• George&Caplin
• Jim McTurnan (of Cat-A-Tac)
• Kissing Party
• Magic Cyclops
• Jim Yelenick
• Big Timber
• Vonnegut
• Joe Sampson
• Me Llamo Rosa
• Walking Into Drawings
• Stung By Bees
• Bad Weather California
• Pee Pee
• Haley Helmericks and Doug Spencer (of Monofog)
• American Relay
• Astrophagus
• Mark Darling
• Killfix
• Patrick Meese (of Meese)
• Dualistics
• Joshua Novak
• Fucking Orange
• the Wheel
• Blue Million Miles
• Widowers
• Action Packed Thrill Ride
• the Inconsolable
• Married in Berdichev
• Pictureplane
• Ben Bergstrand (of Cowboy Curse)
• Jonathan Byerley
• the Archive
• Jim Cleveland and Eric Larson (of The Life There Is)
• Jack Redell
• Eulalie
• Paper Bird

DJs:

• Michael Trundle
• Tyler Jacobson
• the Postman
• Dragondeer
• Peter Black
• El Brian
• DJ Kate
• DJs Nathan + Stephen
• DJ Fancy Tiger
• Jason Roth
• emcee Sid Pink

Comedy:

• Ben Kronberg
• Greg Baumhauer
• Maureen Hobbs

Related Posts:

1. Denver bands I saw for the first time Saturday that I would totally go see again
2. Hey, weekend: the Post’s Underground Music Showcase (translate: awesome local bands)
3. John Wenzel wrote a book about indie comedy.
4. I remember the first time I trusted a record review.
5. Denver Metro bloggers, raise your hand (and post a link to your blog here)

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