Big Brother Thunder & the Master Blasters
w/ TBA
Saturday, August 25
Doors 9pm  Show 10pm
$7 Cover
Over 18 Only


Night Beds
Tuesday, September 25
Doors 7pm  Show 8pm
$8 Advance $10 Day of Show
All Ages
 *on-sale Wed. 8/22 @ 5pm

It's difficult to say where Night Beds begins, it could be any number of moments, really, along a series of migrations, but probably here: the summer of 2008, back in Colorado Springs, when they write the first Night Beds song, "You Were Afraid." After that there is a lot of time spent in basements, a lot of alcohol, a lot of irreverent tuning, but not all that much need for talk. Most things are shared, understood: in thin mountain air, or in a waterlogged summer atmosphere, there can be a sense that breathing is effortful, that sleep is easy but not restful. The songs that come out of those first few years, collected on three EPs, are an exercise in catharsis. They're deeply ringing things, washed in whiskey. The sound is like something emergent from a tunnel. It may be the red eye of a cigarette in the dark, or it may be the dawn peeking out.


Ben Rector
Wednesday, October 10
Doors 7pm  Show 8pm
$12 Advance $15 Day of Show
All Ages
 *on-sale Wed. 8/22 @ 5pm

Ben Rector’s fourth studio album, Something Like This, opens on “Let the Good Times Roll”: an uplifting and timeless tune with a gospel choir–infused chorus that sort of sounds like Motown signed Gavin DeGraw. Rector sings in a more whispered voice on “Song for the Suburbs,” an inspired anthemic standout with droning church organ, marching rhythms, and backing vocals. It’s difficult to imagine Rector singing these songs without a perpetual smile on his face, especially when the soulful “Never Gonna Let You Go” starts grooving on an old Fender Rhodes electric piano and buoyant bass lines. “Without You” takes a break from the retro accompaniment with pulsing sequenced drum beats and a dramatically romantic melody that suggests Rector may have more than one Coldplay album in his collection.

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