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105.5 The Colorado Sound presents Eddie 9V w/ Johnny & The Mongrels + Knifty Kick

105.5 The Colorado Sound presents Eddie 9V with Johnny & The Mongrels and Knifty Kick on Saturday, July 15th.  As far back as he can remember, Capricorn Studios was calling Eddie 9V. As a kid scanning the sleeves of his favorite vinyl records, this fabled facility in Macon, Georgia, was always the secret ingredient, adding a little grit and honey to every song born on its floor. Capricorn and the bands who blew through it urged the Atlanta guitarist to ditch school at 15, play his fingers bloody throughout the south, and turn apathy into acclaim for early albums Left My Soul in Memphis (2019) and Little Black Flies (2021). Eddie spent his first quarter-century admiring Capricorn from afar. But in December 2021, the 26-year-old finally put his thumbprint on the studio’s mythology, corralling an eleven-strong group of the American South’s best roots musicians to track his third album. “There was overwhelming excitement at being in such a legendary studio,” he says. “But we hugged and got right to work. Everyone was joyous, loving, and flat-out playing their asses off.” You don’t come to Capricorn Studios for polish. Frozen in time since its opening day in 1969, the mojo from sessions by giants like the Allman Brothers and Bonnie Bramlett still hangs in the air, while the recording philosophy remains gloriously raw. That suited Eddie, whose output has been celebrated for its warts-and-all snapshot of what went down. “In a world where everyone is trying to sound the best, I’m trying to sound like me,” he reasons. “I always want the listener to feel like they’re in the room with us. So I’d leave it in if a drum pedal squeaked or someone laughed during a take on the Capricorn album. It’s our way of putting a stamp on the song.” Eddie’s old-school ethos goes way back. Born Brooks Mason in June 1996, he acquired his first guitar aged six, “One of those with the speaker in it – the most bang for your buck, y’know?”, ignored the prevailing pop scene at Oak Grove High School in favor of local heroes like Sean Costello and studied “older cats” like Muddy Waters, Howlin’ Wolf, Freddie King, and Rory Gallagher “to see what made them groove and tick.” His shoot-from-the-lip lyrics adds Eddie came from family fish fries, where his Uncle Brian “taught me to make people laugh, how to hold an audience’s attention.” Already, there has been massive acclaim for his early output, with Left My Soul in Memphis dubbed “fresh and life-affirming” by Rock & Blues Muse and Little Black Flies praised by Classic Rock as “the most instinctive blues you’ll hear all year.” But as the Capricorn sessions ticked closer, Eddie fused the nervous energy into his best songs yet. “Coming off a straight blues record, I wanted to show people we’re more than that,” he reflects. “I was listening to Muscle Shoals and soul, a lot of music recorded at Capricorn in the late-’60s too. So we spent way more time crafting the new tunes. Each song took a week to write, instead of five in one night like Little Black Flies.” Never meet your heroes, they say, and many young artists have been overwhelmed by walking the holy ground of their dream studios. At Capricorn, Eddie 9V breathed in the history – but the album he spat out is worthy of sharing the name, standing shoulder-to-shoulder with the studio’s greatest hits and taking music back to the golden age. “We made this record,” he considers, “the way they would have done in 1969…” – 16+, under 16 admitted with ticketed guardian

waveform* w/ They are Gutting a Body of Water + Teethe

Lost Lake Presents waveform* with They are Gutting a Body of Water and Teethe on Wednesday, July 19 –On Last Room, the third album from the Connecticut-based waveform*,,there’s a purposeful hollowness. It’s a record you canfall into, a collection of music that’s unafraid to venture into emotion, exploring the gaping distance that develops in somerelationships, the constant confusion that accompanies self-discovery, andthe darkness that accompanies abandonment.Nothing is said outright on Last Room. There’s no declaration of material certainty that allows you to fully discover every secretor moment of meaning on this recording, but the duo comprised of Jarett Denner and Dan Poppa intended it to be that way.They want you to step into their cavernous auditory journey, to lose yourself in a state of wandering as you find your own story,creating a personal narrative gleaned from their collection of mysteries.Recorded on a laptop in Jarett’s bedroom, the album comes with a discernible feeling of intimacy. Despite their close proximityto one another, Jarett and Dan chose to complete much of the album apart, exchanging ideas and finishing bits of musicthrough email. Theytraded off responsibilities, one focusing on a song’s structure, while another considered the emotionaldetails and coloring.”Hello Goodbye” is the only of the album’s singles that waveform* considers to be collaborative, as the two worked on ittogether before it was recorded. It’s also among the record’s most poignant and reflective, a back-and-forth of admitted uneaseplaced between continued pleas for someone to stay are set against lush, light guitar. Its final moments are one of admittance,as a repetition lyrical confession (“I can’t relax at all”) is left to linger.That same rare moment of confession is also etched within the charge of “Blue Disaster.” It’s a track that sways between twoenergies, trading out an electric beginning and a calamitous conclusion for the occasional quiet that punctuates devastatinglyhonest lyrics: “I was on a tightrope all the time/had a blue disaster but it’s fine/there was something i was reaching for/butthat’s no more.”Formed while still in high school, waveform* was created out of the pair’s mutual appreciation for music. Over the last fewyears, waveform* has continued to grow, attributing an increasing interest in fans to an era dominated by Internet discoveryand streaming. A sound comparable to Melania Kol,Alex G., Title Fight, Have a Nice Life, and Teen Suicide, the band has alsoperformed live with Strange Ranger, Beach Bunny, Pince Daddy and the Hyena, and Lomelda. Their previous releases–Shooting Star and Library–were released in 2018 and 2019. Last Room, released in 2020, is being rereleased through Run forCover Records.- 16+, under 16 admitted with ticketed guardian

Elf Power w/ The Tammy Shine (of Dressy Bessy)

Lost Lake Presents Elf Power with The Tammy Shine (of Dressy Bessy) on Wednesday, June 21st. “Artificial countrysides” is the term Elf Power coined to describe the gray zones where the natural world collides with the creeping encroachment of the digital realm, where the balance between real and simulated can shift from one minute to the next. Artificial Countrysides is also the name of the Athens, Ga., band’s new album, their first since 2017 and their first for Yep Roc. It’s a collection of 12 spellbinding psych-laced songs that blur the line between traditional and futuristic while seeking to make sense of our relationship to each. The idea behind the name of the album has a more concrete application, too. “That title also describes the songwriting process, of world-building or creating an artificial landscape within a song,” singer and multi-instrumentalist Andrew Rieger says. He and his Elf Power bandmates — drummer Peter Alvanos and guitarist Dave Wrathgabar, with contributions from keyboard player Laura Carter — have created some of the band’s most expansive musical terrain yet.  Artificial Countrysides pushes Elf Power’s music in unexpected directions that accentuate the psych-rock sound the band has been honing for close to 30 years. Along with a blend of fuzz-tone electric and layered acoustic guitars, Moog keyboards and lively drums, the group experimented with the sounds of marimba, Mellotron, harpsichord, synth bass and distorted drum machine loops, all topped with melodies that echo in your head long after the music stops. The effect is electrifying, on songs that are unmistakably from Elf Power, yet muscular and propulsive in a distinctive new way. The juxtaposition comes to vivid life on first single “The Gas Inside the Tank.” The song pairs organ and woozy slide guitar with synth bass and the sound of a gurgling Moog for an effect at once disorienting and enveloping, as Rieger imagines a post-apocalyptic world full of deserted cities where people have resorted to siphoning gas from abandoned vehicles. On the second single, album opener “Undigested Parts,” Rieger doubles his vibrant vocal melody with an unsettling whisper as he ponders how unprocessed events and emotions can erupt at unexpected times, pushed along by a dense blanket of fuzzed-out guitars, ethereal keyboards and a mix of live and programmed drums.  Elf Power is nearly always working on new music, and the dozen songs on Artificial Countrysides were among 20 or so that began taking shape not long after the group released 2017’s Twitching in Time. Though the band made some of the new album at The Glow studio in Athens, pandemic considerations meant the musicians often recorded their parts by themselves at home. Fortunately, they were in no hurry. In fact, Artificial Countrysides makes a persuasive case that Elf Power is at its most creative when the musicians work without time constraints. After all, if songwriting is about building your own world, the clocks can run on whatever time you want. – 16+, under 16 admitted with ticketed guardian

Space Monkey Mafia w/ Younger Than Neil + Sorry Sweetheart

Lost Lake Presents Space Monkey Mafia with Younger Than Neil and Sorry Sweetheart on Friday, July 14th. From somewhere deep within the hydrogen-rich nebula, NGC 2174, a new take on high-powered, horn-driven rock has emerged: Space Monkey Mafia. Founded in 2016, the six-piece band is rooted in the best parts of 90s/00s ska and punk, infused with a healthy dose of contemporary influence, and combined with a lyrical urgency and message to meet the moment. In the time of social media campaigns and playlist placements, Space Monkey Mafia gained their fanbase the old-fashioned way – by winning them over one show at a time. Quickly earning a reputation for their energetic and danceable live performances, the band showed an immediate eagerness to get in the van and bring their music to as many ears as possible. Logging over 250 shows in 20 states in their first few years of existence, the band worked every mid-size city, festival, and college town they could find within a 7-hour radius of the Twin Cities. Space Monkey Mafia’s first album, Sorry For Your Time arrived in March 2018 and that fall the band took their first foray out to the West Coast. The band followed it up with 2019’s Captain Crook EP, which featured songwriting contributions from every member. After hunkering down during the pandemic, the band returned with a vengeance in summer 2021, selling out their first show back. 2022 saw the release of Space Monkey Mafia’s second album Banned From California via Snowglobe Records, which the band followed up with a tour of the Midwest and Rocky Mountains. With the next batch of anti-establishment anthems and self-care bangers already being compiled, Space Monkey Mafia looks to the horizon, ready to keep audiences skanking and hollering for years to come. – 16+, under 16 admitted with ticketed guardian

Neutral Snap w/ Townies, John Tyler + Capture This

Lost Lake Presents Neutral Snap with Townies, John Tyler and Capture This on Tuesday, June 6 –Neutral Snap is a 4-piece Pop-Punk band from New Orleans, Louisiana. Their music features many sounds of late ‘90s-early 2000s’ pop-punk alongside many contemporary elements. The group was originally formed by singer Joshua Latham and guitarist JP Brown while they were classmates at Jesuit High School. Fellow classmate Dominick Conforte was enlisted to play the bass, and the current lineup was solidified years later with the addition of drummer Ray-Ray Boudreoux in 2018.Shortly after releasing their first single, ‘Out of Formality’ (2017), the group would embark on their first tour across the southeastern U.S, sponsored by entertainment platform Old Row. The following years’ release of ‘Yellow Suitcase’ was a success, garnering significant playlistand radio attention for the group. As their fanbase began to expand beyond their region, the band began to include portions of the east coast in their tours. Perfect Spiral was released in 2019 and was well received by fans, attracting the attention of a number of labels. The band released their fourth single, “Bed Sweats”, through New Orleans’ based Orange Music Records in the fall of 2019. On January 10th, 2020, Neutral Snap released their debut album “Sorry, I Passed Out” to positive reviews and strong fan support.- 16+, under 16 admitted with ticketed guardian

Leanna Firestone w/ Abby Cates + Grace Gardner

Lost Lake Presents Leanna Firestone with Abby Cates and Grace Gardner on Friday, July 7 –Leanna Firestone is an impressive artist and talented musician from Nashville, Tennessee. While attending Recording Industry school, Leanna entered the professional world of songwriting by fusing her writing with the community of anime stans she found when she first joined TikTok. Ultimately, this led to a short snippet of what would become her first release, “Strawberry Mentos” which reached 5M streams. Then, in 2021, her next track “Least Favorite Only Child” reached 4M streams, while her EP Y/N peaked at #8 on the US singer-songwriter iTunes Charts. One of her songs was also featured during an episode of Love Island UK. In early 2022, she released her first full album Forward / Slash, featuring “Diet Coke”, “Gambling Addiction” and “Smitten.” Currently, Leanna is signed to Frtyfve Records out of London.- 16+, under 16 admitted with ticketed guardian

Jeff Crosby w/ Paul DeHaven

Lost Lake Presents Jeff Crosby with Paul DeHaven on Sunday, August 6th. Born and raised in Idaho, Jeff Crosby has been sharing his unique perspective of Americana throughout the US and Europe over the past decade. After moving to Los Angeles CA in 2012, Crosby landed 2 songs (“This Old Town” and “Oh Love, Oh Lord”) on the hit FX series Sons of Anarchy which has led to the band continually performing over 200 shows a year throughout the US and Europe.Additionally, Crosby spent 2015-16 on the road playing lead guitar for Widespread Panic song-writer Jerry Joseph, as well as for Austin Texas road warriors Reckless Kelly in 2019.Crosby has co-written songs featured on Austin TX band Micky & The Motorcars recent release Long Time Comin’ and Reckless Kelly’s American Girls/American Jackpot.After spending 3 years based in Nashville TN, Crosby has returned to Idaho and will continue to tour with his band full-time in support of his most recent release NORTHSTAR (APRIL 2020) and the current single “Runnin’ Free” (MAY 2021) feat. Cody Braun (Reckless Kelly) and Produced/Engineered by Gregg Williams and Jonathan Tyler.- 16+, under 16 admitted with ticketed guardian

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