105.5 The Colorado Sound presents Matthew Logan Vasquez w/ Parker Gispert
105.5 The Colorado Sound presents Matthew Logan Vasquez with Parker Gispert on Thursday, April 20th. Best-known as the co-founder and frontman for shape-shifting heartland indie-rockers Delta Spirit, Matthew Logan Vasquez’s fiery delivery and thought-provoking lyrics draw from a huge and versatile well of influences, including Gram Parsons, Kurt Cobain, Neil Young, and Iggy Pop. As a solo artist, he juggles elements of indie rock, electronic pop, R&B, and soulful Americana, flirting with despondency, but ultimately succumbing to beatitude, especially on 2017’s home-recorded yet vibrant sophomore effort, Does What He Wants. After releasing Delta Spirit’s critically acclaimed fourth studio album, Into the Wide, in 2014, Vasquez moved with his wife and newborn son to Austin, Texas and began working on what would become his debut solo outing. The resulting Austin EP, which finds Vasquez manning every instrument and offering up a blistering set of outlaw psych rock, arrived in 2015, with plans to issue his debut long-player, Solicitor Returns, in early 2016. In January 2017, Vasquez issued “Same,” the driving single from his sophomore solo outing Does What He Wants, which arrived later that April. The following year another side project appeared, the tequila drenched super group Glorietta, as well as another MLV EP, Texas Murder Ballads. Vasquez fourth LP Light’n Up was released in February 2019 and was followed in 2020 with Delta Spirit’s What is There.- 16+, under 16 admitted with a ticketed parent or guardian
Annie DiRusso w/ Hannah Cole
Globe Hall Presents Annie DiRusso with Hannah Cole on Sunday, June 18 — 16+, under 16 admitted with a ticketed parent or guardian
Dead Lifeboat w/ Vudu Sunshine, High Country Heartbreakers + Tupelo Honey
Globe Hall Presents Dead Lifeboat with Vudu Sunshine, High Country Heartbreakers and Tupelo Honey on Sunday, April 2nd. – 16+, under 16 admitted with a ticketed parent or guardian
Sell Farm w/ Sky Creature, French Kettle Station + Pink Lady Monster
Globe Hall Presents Sell Farm with Sky Creature, French Kettle Station and Pink Lady Monster on Wednesday, March 29th. – 16+, under 16 admitted with a ticketed parent or guardian
Demob Happy w/ Sego
Globe Hall Presents Demob Happy with Sego on Wednesday, March 22 — – 16+, under 16 admitted with a ticketed parent or guardian
Mighty Poplar w/ Maya de Vitry
Globe Hall Presents Mighty Poplar featuring Noam Pikelny & Chris Eldridge (Punch Brothers), Andrew Marlin (Watchhouse), & Greg Garrison (Leftover Salmon) with special guest Maya de Vitry on Wednesday, May 10 — – 16+, under 16 admitted with a ticketed parent or guardian
Thunderstorm Artis w/ ELLSWORTH
Globe Hall Presents Thunderstorm Artis with ELLSWORTH on Thursday, March 16th. For his entire life, singer/songwriter Thunderstorm Artis has stayed devoted to making music that strengthens the heart and awakens the soul. A multi-instrumentalist who got his start playing in a band with his 10 siblings as a little kid, the 26-year-old Hawaii native has since brought his warm yet powerful vocals and vibrant musicality to such endeavors as touring with Jack Johnson and sharing stages with legends like Booker T. Jones. After years of refining his craft and carving out his singular identity as an artist, the Oregon-based musician has created his most captivating work to date: a genre-bending batch of songs built on both emotionally raw storytelling and incisive soul-searching, offering much-needed insight into living with hope even in the darkest of times. Born into an exceptionally musical family—his father Ron was a Motown session player who performed on iconic tracks like Michael Jackson’s “Thriller,” while his mother Victoria toured as a backup singer for the likes of Lena Horne—Artis grew up in Oahu and started playing drums at age nine, later taking up piano, guitar, and harmonica. Although he’d dabbled in songwriting throughout his childhood, he found a whole new sense of artistic purpose after using music to cope with the sudden death of his father. “Once I started really focusing on songwriting, I realized my music could bring healing not only to me, but to other people in pain,” says Artis, who was 13 when his father passed away. Raised on everything from jazz to country to classic soul singers like Sam Cooke and Marvin Gaye, he immersed himself in sharpening his songcraft and soon began touring extensively with his older brother, acclaimed singer/songwriter Ron Artis II. With his debut EP Haunted released in 2018, Artis next emerged as a finalist on NBC’s “The Voice” in 2020, in addition to becoming a mainstay at Wanderlust festivals throughout North America.A prime showcase for his extraordinary versatility, Artis’s new body of work also encompasses the cascading folk of “Oh Little River” and the brightly soaring alt-pop of “Surprise” (a gorgeously expressed outpouring of love for his wife). For Artis, the work of writing such revelatory songs has become its own form of sustenance. “From a very young age, music has been like an anchor for me; I really don’t know where it’d be without it,” he says. “At this point I don’t go anywhere without my guitar—because if I do, I feel like there’s a part of me that’s missing.” But for all the fulfillment he finds in songwriting, Artis always keeps an eye toward the potential impact on his audience. “I believe that artists have a responsibility to explain what they’re feeling and put it into their art, so that others can understand themselves better,” he says. “So even though I hope my songs give people a better sense of who I am as a person, I also hope the music makes them feel stronger and helps them to grow. I hope it shows them how to love one another, and how to love themselves.” – 16+, under 16 admitted with a ticketed parent or guardian
Simple Syrup & Dabylon w/ Pipin’ Hot
Globe Hall Presents Simple Syrup and Dabylon with Pipin’ Hot on Saturday, May 6th. – 16+, under 16 admitted with a ticketed parent or guardian
Interpretive Tyranny w/ Radio Fluke, Flak + Light the Letters
Globe Hall Presents Interpretive Tyranny with Radio Fluke, Flak and Light the Letters on Thursday, February 23rd. – 16+, under 16 admitted with a ticketed parent or guardian
Billie Marten w/ Olivia Kaplan
Globe Hall Presents Billie Marten with Olivia Kaplan on Wednesday, June 14 — Billie –born Isabella Sophie Tweddle – got her early start in music thanks to parents who surrounded her with the music of Nick Drake, John Martyn, Joni Mitchell, Joan Armatrading, Kate Bush, Loudon Wainwright III and northern folk artist Chris Wood (who once told a nine-year-old Billie to “go for it!”). The family lived in the cathedral city Ripon, North Yorkshire, where Billie grew up in and around the Dales. “I feel a lot of emotion [in nature],” she says. “Like this extreme form of empathy. I find it a very comforting blanket. It cradles you, it’s always there. It’s not going away.” Billie was then signed to Chess Club Records, an imprint of Sony, “the day before my Maths GCSE”. I was revising and then signing in this big glass boardroom.” Not long afterwards, she was nominated for the BBC Sound of 2016, making fans out of Radio 1 tastemakers like Annie Mac and Huw Stephens. Her critically acclaimed debut album, Writing of Blues and Yellows, was a diarist, open-hearted collection of quietly beautiful songs released in 2016, when she was still just 17. The following year, she moved to London, where she worked on her 2019 follow-up, Feeding Seahorses ByHand, which The Line of Best Fit declared a “gentle and reserved masterpiece”. Towards the end of 2019, Billie underwent a total overhaul, leaving Sony and choosing a new management team. She signed to Fiction records, a division of Universal, in lockdown via zoom. She then went back into the studio and reunited with producer Rich Cooper – whom she worked with on Blues and Yellows – Billie felt empowered to experiment andrediscover herself. “I picked up the bass instead of the guitar – which made all my rhythms different, because I can’t play bass,” she laughs. “That made everything a lot punchier and more direct.” With Rich adding drums to the songs as they were being written, the sound they developed together was one with a rapid pulse and rich instrumentation. The list of inspirations Billie brought to the studio roamed from krautrockers Can – “their rhythms are just bizarre, and don’t make any sense” – to Broadcast, Arthur Russell, and Fiona Apple. “It was such freedom to play, and just be, and explore different corners of me that I hadn’t before.” Since then, she has toured frequently throughout the UK and US, returning home to record her fourth record, soon to be released in early 2023. Her writing themes explore social commentary, the struggle with modernity vs tradition, nature, mental health, relationships, and a general voyeurism on the world as she sees it. – 16+, under 16 admitted with a ticketed parent or guardian
