Gathering of the Clouds Festival

boyhollow is an old goth that plays music for hipsters, indie-rockers, bass-heads, gays, party kids, gender-crushers, meat-heads, woo girls and even the occasional hippie. He doesn’t believe in writing bios containing a bunch of cliches about what an awesome DJ he is. He’d rather be making you dance.

He is the founder of Lipgloss (est. 2001), Denver’s longest running and most awarded club-night. Lipgloss pulls in over 500 people a week and consistently runs at capacity. Lipgloss was instrumental in – if not arguably responsible for – creating Denver’s indie dance scene. He is also resident DJ at Scumbag Sundays at Shag Lounge.

He has worked with, performed at and produced parties with some of music’s biggest names: New Order, Passion Pit, The XX, Girl Talk, Miami Horror, The Juan Maclean, Miike Snow, Yeasayer, !!!, MSTRKRFT, Autoerotique, Figure, Mars Volta, Simian Mobile Disco, Steve Aoki, Bloody Beetroots, Chromeo, Calvertron, Le Castle Vania, Treasure Fingers, VHS or Beta, Le Tigre, Felix Cartal, Fake Blood, Blondie, Interpol, Phoenix, Boys Noize, Crookers, LCD Soundsystem, Guns’n'Bombs, Mustard Pimp, Junkie XL, LA Riots, The Faint, K.I.M. (The Presets), Chuckie, Cool Kids, Muse, Tommie Sunshine, The Klaxons, Devo, The Cars, Toxic Avenger, Daedelus, Snowden, RAC DJ’s, The Motherfucking Gaslamp Killer, The Rapture, Airborne Toxic Event, Ghostland Observatory, The Bravery, She Wants Revenge, Mickey Avalon, Electric Six, Paparazzi, Paul Anthony, Bird Peterson, Hot Pink Delorean, Ladytron, Blaqk Audio, Peter Hook (Joy Division, New Order), Tim Burgess (The Charlatans), Andy Rourke and Mike Joyce (The Smiths), Spencer Moody (Murder City Devils), Marky Ramone (The Ramones), Stellastar*, Nadastrom, Anna Lunoe, Keane, Blondie and many more that have fallen into the drunken haze of time.

Plays Saturday, March 9

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Friday, March 8 Lineup

Tyler Jacobson — Tue, 05 Feb 2013 06:57:38 +0000

TICKETS:

http://www.thewalnutroom.com/event/220025-radio-1190-twist-shout-denver/

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Thee Dang Dangs (Denver, CO)

Tyler Jacobson — Tue, 05 Feb 2013 06:48:26 +0000

http://theedangdangs.com

Thee Dang Dangs are a 4 piece Psychedelic Surf Garage Rock band that formed in 2012 in Denver, CO.

Playing Thursday, March 7

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Thursday, March 7 Lineup

Tyler Jacobson — Tue, 05 Feb 2013 06:43:10 +0000

TICKETS:

http://www.thewalnutroom.com/event/220023-radio-1190-twist-shout-denver/

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Broken Spirits (Denver, CO)

Tyler Jacobson — Tue, 05 Feb 2013 06:31:34 +0000

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Broken-Spirits/126134540735923

Not long ago, the good Reverend and his friend and musical cohort Brother Al began playing some primitive rock ‘n’ roll in the basement at a local house party. Fast forward one year to a rehearsal space in Lausanne, Switzerland…we drank a few beers and played again for a few friends. When we had some spare time a few months later, a call was made to the Reverend’s old friend, a Mr. Bobby Jamison, inviting him to come and drop some bottom end on the whole thing. Things started sounding pretty SPOOKY, maybe even GROOVY, some songs were kinda written, and they knew they just had to SHAKE YOU.

Playing Thursday, March 7

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Hollow Talk (Denver, CO)

Tyler Jacobson — Tue, 05 Feb 2013 06:26:48 +0000

https://www.facebook.com/hollowtalk/

Hollow Talk is duncan, jonathan, adam, holland, and rob

Playing Friday, March 8

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The Morning Clouds (Arvada, CO)

Tyler Jacobson — Tue, 05 Feb 2013 06:22:30 +0000

https://www.facebook.com/themorningclouds

Life has a funny way of coming around full circle when you least expect it. Take, for example, Josh Wambeke and The Morning Clouds. He spent the better part of the previous decade as half of Phineas Gage’s psychedelic songwriting axis then leading Fell through shoegaze and space-rock realms. After trampling to the farthest reaches of the cosmos and center of the mind, he found himself straying back into the realms of late-night solo songwriting that marked some of his earliest forays into home four-tracking.

As easily as Wambeke slipped back into the one-man explorations of classic pop, he’s worlds away from his days as a budding home recorder. To start, this time around he had his own local recording studio – which has quietly been making a name for itself among Denver rock circles – at his disposal. He also had a decade to hone his craft. Those luxuries immediately made themselves apparent. Instead of drifting around in his other acts’ densely crafted soundscapes, Wambeke curls up comfortably in his bedroom, dipping into the same well of inspiration that guided everyone from The Ronettes to The Ramones to The Jesus And Mary Chain through the years.

Wambeke slinks into a record-collector pop aesthetic on Wasted Youth. There’s still enough cosmic dust left over from Fell’s travels to the edge of the universe to coat The Morning Clouds’ songs and cast an ethereal shimmer over that comfortably familiar classic pop framework. Just like the Ramones roughed it up with punk and JAMC’s C86 aesthetic yanked it into the new wave, Wasted Youth filters the sound through Wambeke’s spaced-out sensibilities.

Wambeke casually floated a couple early tracks – “A Walk Home” and “The Wrong Things” – to a handful of friends and Fell supporters in late 2010. To his surprise, the response was overwhelmingly positive. These were the sort of tracks that needed a proper release, and he got to work. He coined a band name, crawled back to the studio and fleshed out the rest of Wasted Youth Blues. A band was formed, practices began and shows were booked. Once little more than a lark for a musician playing around in the studio, The Morning Clouds was on its way.

Written, performed and recorded entirely by Wambeke, Wasted Youth isn’t so much a departure for the songwriter, but a return to his roots, touching up the pop performances that formed the basis for his earliest solo dabbling. Sometimes, when you’re as prolific as Wambeke, moving forward his bands isn’t enough: You have you stop and reflect on your past.

Playing Friday, March 8

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