Posted by: Abbey Hester in Music Guide on November 30th, 2011
In 2009 author Kathryn Stockett went public with her first novel, The Help, which relates the stories of black female domestics who worked for white families in Jackson, Mississippi in the early days of the Civil Rights Movement. The New York Times predicted it would be a button-pushing, soon to be wildly popular novel and they were right.
The book has sold five million copies and has spent more than 100 weeks on the The New York Times Best Seller list and was made into a very successful and critically acclaimed comedy/drama film within two years. It also drew the criticism from Ida E.
Posted by: Abbey Hester in Music Guide on November 25th, 2011
What’s better than Denver musician Nathaniel Rateliff’s voice? Denver musician a. Tom Collins’ voice.
Oh no!
Fine, it’s a draw.
I fell infatuation with Rateliff when I saw his former band, The Wheel, open for Denver greats Slim Cessna’s Auto Club years ago at Bender’s in Denver. Then I heard “Slow” on The Wheel’s 2007 Desire and Dissolving Men. Jesus, Jerry and Joseph. Jubilation!
Then a. Tom Collins came along with the EP “OH NO!” Damn jerks. I can hardly listen to anything but these days.
Aaron Tom Collins, former singer of Machine Gun Blues, fronts the band on keys and vocals and is joined by wild gangster horns and gang-banging vocals.
Posted by: Abbey Hester in Music Guide on November 18th, 2011
COUNCIL BLUFFS Word that Council Bluffs was named the No. 2 Iowa Tourism Community of the Year for 2011 sparked a party Friday afternoon.
Not just to celebrate the designation from the Tourism Office of the Iowa Economic Development Authority. But to salute the Council Bluffs city employees who worked to keep Council Bluffs “open for business” during a summer of Missouri River flooding.
The announcement at the Council Bluffs Convention and Visitors Bureau Friday turned into a surprise party for city workers.
“Council Bluffs was saved from a disastrous tourism season thanks to the efforts of our city personnel.
Posted by: Abbey Hester in Music Guide on November 3rd, 2011
By Grant David | November 6, 2011 at 4:04 am | No comments | Features & Interviews, MP3 & Streams, Music, Music News | Tags: “Guts”, Alex Gaskarth, All Time Low, Alternative Press, Baltimore, Bamboozle, Blink 182, Boys Like Girls, Butch Walker, Dashboard Confessional, Dirty Work, Green Day, Hopeless Records, I Feel Like Dancin’, Interscope, Jack Barakat, Maja Ivarsson, Mike Green, Nothing Personal, Paramore, Pink, Rian Dawson, Rockstar Energy, The Party Scene, the Sounds, The Three Words to Remember in Dealing With the End, The Washington Post, Time Bomb, Vans Warped Tour, Zack Merrick
Today, we are adding another installment to our Static Multimedia Interview series as we sit down and talk with Alex Gaskarth, the lead singer of the pop-punk band All Time Low.
Posted by: Abbey Hester in Music Guide on October 24th, 2011
Guys. Candy is super great. There’s a giant bowl of it here at the Colorado Daily that gets mysteriously refilled once a day, and it’s like every day this week has been Halloween. What does this have to do with music, you ask? Not much, but I’m on a killer sugar high, so I can draw absurd connections. Just watch. Music is candy for your ears, and everyday this weekend can be Halloween if you throw on a costume and check out these shows. The Motet, “Funk Is Dead: Performing the music of The Grateful Dead” Friday, 8 p.m. at The Aggie Theatre, 204 South College Ave., Fort Collins, 970-482-8300. What more do you need to link a band to Halloween than the word “dead” in its name? The Full Post…
