15th Annual Underground Music Showcase Hits Broadway July 23-26
In the Denver music scene, the third weekend in July is one of those weekends that takes some preparation. Bands from around the city and a select lucky handful of hard hitters from around the country prepare their finest set lists and tighten up any loose ends in their songs. The bars and clubs along South Broadway cram their liquor rooms and beer coolers to the brim, and call upon their finest bartenders to work four consecutive long, hot, and loud, days. Around the city music fans, tourists, artists, spouses, the general public and musicians themselves in turn prep their ears (and livers) for the largest music festival the Mountain Time Zone has to offer.
The Denver Post Underground Music Showcase, July 23-26, stretches along Broadway as far south as Club 404 and as far north as Illegal Pete’s. Now in its 15th year, The UMS will showcase over 400 bands from Denver and beyond in bars, galleries, clubs, and one of Denver’s most iconic churches. Basically, it’s Denver’s version of South By Southwest- but not nearly as corporate and spoiled. A festival pass gets you a wristband granting access to all participating venues. The venues are walkable, and out on the street between clubs is where some of the best action takes place- people in costumes, buskers- just about anything can be seen.
Those involved in the music industry can attend panel discussions, connect with artists face to face while walking Broadway, and get a dose of just about everything Denver has to offer musically. Fans have the opportunity to see more bands in four days than they will likely see the rest of the year in small, intimate settings that truly put the raw talent of the performers on display.
If this all sounds a little overwhelming, don’t fret- The UMS has developed an app to help you manage your time and catch the acts you want to see. This year’s festival will benefit The Denver Post Community Foundation and Youth On Record. Head to theums.com for more information.
Below, we have compiled a list of performers:
Performers:
A Shadow of Jaguar Abrams
ALBNY
American Blackout
AMZY
The Anchor
Ancient Elk
Andy Thomas’s Dust Heart
Andy Sydow
Bad Luck City
The Baltic Bark Wilson
Bear Antler
Before the Bulb
Best Creeps
Big Koast
Bighorn
Brent Cowles
Briffaut Brothertiger
he Burroughs
Calder’s Revolvers
Champagne Charlie
Chella & The Charm
Church Fire
Chuck Burns & Ty Rone
Clemente
Cloacas
Clouds & Mountains
codename:carter
Cold River
City Cop
Circles
Cougar Gold
Cure for Gravity
Curious Quail
The Cutthroat Drifters
Dan Craig
Dawn Safari
Dearling
déCollage
Dechen Hawk’s Jus’ Sayin
Deer Creek
Devyn Rae Diamondstein + Anomie Disguise the Silence
DJ ALF Echo Beds The Echo Chamber
Hi-Strung
Holy Ghost Tent Revival
homebody
Hot Apostles
HR People
Ian Cooke
Ian Cooke (solo)
Input
Instant Empire
iZCALLi
Jermaine Smith and the Sex Party
John Common
Superheart
Joy Subtraction
The Kinky Fingers
The Kiss Off
Lawsuit Models
Leggy Magic
Sword
Male Blonding
The Maykit Mile High Soul Club
Native Eloquence
Pale Sun
Pamphleteers
Party Hard
Patrick Dethlefs
Paw Paw
Plume Varia
Punch Drunk Munky Funk
Povi Tamu
Post Paradise
The Raven & The Writing Desk Reason
the Citizen
Reno Divorce
Residual Kid
RipRats
Rumtum
Rootbeer and Mermantau
The Savage
Blush
SF1
The Shaloms S
igns and Signals
Slow Caves
Snake Rattle Rattle Snake
Sputnik
Slovenia
Steve Law band
Space Suits for Indians
The Still Tide
Straight White Teeth
Strawberry Runners
Street Fever
Sunboy
The Take
Tennis
Tjutjuna
The Traveling Suitcase
The Velveteers
Viretta
The Vanilla Milkshakes
Wanderdusk
What Moon Things
Walker Lukens & the Side Arms What Moon Things
WINEHOUSE
Wire Faces
Zebroids
STRFKR
DIIV
Milo Greene
Brick + Mortar
Slim Cessna’s Auto Club
Accordian Crimes
Beginners
Until the Ribbon Breaks
Colfax Speed Queen
Dragondeer
Mac McCaughan (Superchunk)
The Epilogues
In the Whale
Bud Bronson and the Good Timers
The Knew
Moon Hooch
Gabriel Garzon-Montano
Land Lines
The Lonely Wild Eros & the Eschaton Plum
Rose Quartz
Ned Garthe Explosion
Shady Elders
South of France
Ryan Chrys and the Roughcuts
SPELLS
Wild High
Wiredogs
The Yawpers
Flaural
Fluorescent Phobia
For Keeps
Freaky North
Futurebabes
French Kettle Station
Gentlemen Crow
Gin Doctors
The Good Gracious
Hair Cult
Heira
Nova
Hell On Wheels
Hibbidity Dibbity
High Five
High Plains
Honky
Holly Lovell
HolyFear
The Host Club
I Sank Molly Brown
Il Cattivo
Indigenous Robot
Inner Oceans
Ivory Circle
James and the Devil
Jeffrey Dallet
Jesse R.S.
Josh Moorehead & The Guestlist
Julie Stratton
Jux County
Kent Washington
Khemmis
Kill Paradise
King Cardinal
King Niko
Kitty Crimes
Lemon Future
Lila Rose
Lords of Fuzz
The Longest Day of the Year
Low Body
LSD Bags
Luna Sol
M.Florea
Medic
Megan Burtt
Melaena Cadiz
Millicent
Miss America By Wheary
Modern Suspects
Montoneros
Montropo
Morning Bear
Mosey West
Motion Trap
The Munsens
Muscle Beach
Nadalands
Nanook
Natalie Tate
No Cigar
Normal Eyes
Not the Arrow
OKO TYGRA
One Flew West
The Original Ills
Oscar Ross
The Other Black
The Outfit
Panther Martin
The Parlor Pickers
Paul DeHaven
Poet’s Row
Pride In Pieces
Pxlman
Professor Fox’s One Man Band
Qbala
RAH
The Reckless Nights
Red Fox Run
Roo & the Howl
Rossonian
Rowboat
Rowdy Shadehouse
The Royal
Rumours Follow
Science Partner
Safe Boating is No Accident
Shark Shark
Skydyed
The Samuel Edgar Band
Sarah & The Meanies
Smoke & Honey
Snubluck
Soft Skulls
Somerset Catalog
The Sound and Color
Sour Boy, Bitter Girl
Space In Time
Sparkle
Jetts StaG
Stella Luce
Strange Americans
Sun Blood
Stories Taverns
Sugar Skulls & Marigolds
Thieves & Gypsys
Toi et Moi
There’s an Ape for That
Through the Mountain
Tomahawk Fox
Tommy Freed and the Sound
Tommy Metz
Treehouse Sanctum
The Truth & Spectacle
Tyto Alba
Vices I Admire
Turner Jackson’s Red Plastic Cup
Von Stomper
WHILT
We Are Not A Glum Lot
Wild Wombat
With Child Woodhouse
Wrywood
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