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Ten Reasons to Support Live Local Music

a featured contributor — Tue, 15 Sep 2020 06:01:21 +0000

Many studies have shown how music makes people smarter, but did you know that supporting live local music has many more benefits than just increasing your brain power? Colorado Springs has a thriving music scene, and many burgeoning as well as seasoned musicians love getting out there to show off their talents in front of a live audience. Here are ten reasons to get out there and see them: It

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Kinky: Mas

a featured contributor — Thu, 14 Feb 2019 06:03:48 +0000

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Rock N’ Roll Ghosts

a featured contributor — Thu, 26 Jul 2018 06:09:16 +0000

Paul Westerberg of The Replacements famously wrote, “Growin’ old in a bar, ya grow old in a bar” in his 1985 song “Left Of The Dial.” I spent fourteen years of my life proving him right in an effort to become a successful musician. When I first started playing out in clubs, MTV had just begun it’s climb into the public consciousness, and the music industry as a whole was

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MGMT: The Management Is Still In Charge

a featured contributor — Fri, 05 May 2017 07:16:53 +0000

MGMT’s first appearance on the music scene was as unexpected as it was uncompromising. Andrew VanWyngarden and Ben Goldwasser showed up at a Wesleyan University college party as an inauspicious duo called “The Management,” playing nothing but a continuous loop of the Ghostbusters theme song for hours. The idea was to mock the pop culture music scene, mostly through the uses of irony and satire. Subsequent performances consisted of the boys dressing up in costumes,

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The Les Paul and Stratocaster Are Playing an Old, Old Tune

a featured contributor — Fri, 08 Apr 2016 17:37:43 +0000

Just a few months after starting to play the guitar, I read a line in an article saying something like, “the Gibson Les Paul is a rite of passage for guitar players.” I also remember hearing the old saw, “the Les Paul and Stratocaster need no improvement as they’re the pinnacle of electric guitar design.” But even before I truly understood what makes a good guitar, I knew these statements were

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The Verdict

The USR Staff — Fri, 09 Jan 2015 16:32:12 +0000

Video: Interview: Colorado Springs is lucky to have an active local music scene, ranging from classical to country with every music genre in between. » Click here for the full interview Biography: The Verdict, with founders Mike Louis (lead guitar/vocals), Ken Bailey (drums/vocals), and Darcy Martineau (bass), got its start in 1989. It its early years, The Verdict played many well-known local clubs, entertaining club-goers with a variety of rock

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