Tommy Metz revised and re-mastered his album "The Blossom Frontier" from 2010. Renamed "Frontier" and with new artwork and a new site, preview and download it at tommymetz.com!!

These are the bands to see at this year's UMS. Don't get too fucked up too early because you might miss something, but then again, you might catch something surprising so drink yourself silly, but drink responsibly of course. Take cabs between the venues and don't talk to strangers, unless one of those strangers is us (or really good looking), in which case we will acknowledge your existence and pretend to care about what you have to say:

THURSDAY:
the Vicious Women - Club 404, 7pm
Fierce Bad Rabbit  - Skylark Lounge, 9pm
Hot White - Club 404, 9pm
*Wire Faces - Hi-Dive, 10pm

FRIDAY:
Peace Officer - TS Board Shop, 6pm
*Fierce Bad Rabbit - Hi-Dive, 7pm
Joe Sampson - Ironwood Collection, 8:30pm
*Patrick Lee - Delite, 9pm
Joshua Novak - Skylark Lounge, 10pm
DJ Savior Breath (reverb) - Sputnik, 11pm
*Tim Pourbaix - Michelangelo's Coffee & Wine Bar, 11pm
*Tommy Metz (Iuengliss) - Delite, 11pm
Chella Negro - Hornet, 11:55pm
Achille Lauro - Skylark Lounge, 11:55pm
Mancub - Delite, 11:55

SATURDAY:
Pina Chulada - Illiterate Gallery, 3:30pm
the Still City - Moe's Original Bar B Que, 4pm
King Mob - Illiterate Gallery, 4:30
*Port Au Prince - 3 Kings Tavern, 5pm
Fairchildren - South Broadway Christian Church, 5pm
Holophrase - Club 404, 5pm
Bare Bones - 3 Kings Tavern, 6pm
Pink Hawks - Indy Ink, 6pm
*Tim Pourbaix - Ironwood Collection, 6:30
Ian Cooke - South Broadway Christian Church, 7pm
Littles Paia - Ironwood Collection, 7:30
Vitamins - Club 404, 8:00
Snake Rattle Rattle Snake - Goodwill Parking Lot, 9pm
Mike Marchant's Outer-Space Party Unit - Club 404, 10pm
Bad Weather California - Hi-Dive, 10pm
Land Lines - Mayan Theatre, 11:30pm
Houses - 3 Kings Tavern, 11:55pm
Force Publique - Hi-Dive, 11:55pm
A. Tom Collins - Mayan Theatre, 1am

SUNDAY:
*Aenka - Delite, 3pm
Night of Joy - Club 404, 3pm
*Jon Wirtz & the Debut - South Broadway Christian Church, 4pm
Kevin Costner Suicide Pact - Delite, 4pm
200 Million Years - Hi-Dive, 4pm
Bonnie and the Beard - Irish Rover, 4pm
*The Bottesini Project - South Broadway Christian Church, 5pm
*Married in Berdichev - Delite, 5pm
Constellations - Hi-Dive, 5pm
Panal SA de CV - Hi-Dive, 6pm
*Hunter Dragon - Michelangelo's Coffee & Wine Bar, 7pm
*Tender Glances - Illiterate Gallery, 7:30
Fairchildren - Goodwill Parking Lot, 7:30
Wentworth Kersey - Delite, 9pm
Flashlights - Club 404, 9pm
Hearts in Space - Hi-Dive, 9pm
Fingers of the Sun - Skylark Lounge, 9pm
Ian Cooke Band - Goodwill Parking Lot, 9:15pm
Candy Claws - Delite, 10pm
Cannons - 3 Kings Tavern, 10:30pm
Il Cattivo - 3 Kings Tavern, 11pm

*bocumast artists
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--I apologize in advance to anyone we forgot. please don't let that deter your feelings toward us. We are actually very nice people once you get to know us.

The recent passing of Cy Twombly has prompted me to write this. While we focus on music and mostly the music we create, I'd like to take a moment and bring to light some of the brilliance of Cy. His work fullfilled art world empties. It was a gathering of ideas, a laugh, a cry, and a poke. It was brilliant, crass, delightful, and proposterous. The work of Cy Twombly has not only inspired me in my own life as an artist, but my life as a musician. I will continue to find joy in his work, especially the most simplistic pieces, which is where I felt he excelled.

I remember my first visit to the MoMA (I saw two of the pieces featured below). Cy had two large rooms to himself. In one room were the giant chalkboard-like paintings...obvious and powerful upon first glance. Then after a while they become more constrictive, leaving the viewer gazing back upon their memories...of childhood, or more recent experiences, clashes with culture, understanding, or ambivalence. Each piece somewhat improvisational, like free jazz on a canvas. I was enthralled and beyond inspired. I will forever be. Thanks Cy!

--click on an image to read more.
---you will be missed, Cy Twombly.

To some of those miscellaneous do-gooders
Last week I visited a far off land called Tulsa, OK. The sounds and visions enjoyed by my ears there are rarely perculiar, but this time I was more attentive. I took myself out for the evening along with some family and new friends. We played cop watching games, marco pollo, and spotted hundreds of sex hungry brain clouds out on the town. Then we ventured into the Sound Pony. A slightly pretentious, well-intentioned establishment with live music nearly every night of the week. My ears perked as sounds surrounded them briefly by a group that goes by Slothpop. Not the best name, but certainly memorable as was their performance.

Beats dripped down from the ceiling creating melted cages around each listener. The voices popped bubbles growing off mossy guitar synth rock. Simplistic song structure taking unexpected turns. Slothpop is female lead vocals driving a talented group of musicians. Many in the crowd took pause to hear them out when nothing else in their evening struck their fragile minds. My pleasantries divided upon the night and I was forced to flee, but in the moments I saw them, I was overjoyed to witness this in my homeland, where my family live, where the buffalo roam, and where the sloths pop.

Slothpop is performing at Moe's BBQ in Denver on July 7 & The Laughing Goat in Boulder on July 8.

Get their newest LP if you dare to treat yourself with respect.

slothpop.com