15th Annual Underground Music Showcase Hits Broadway July 23-26

| July 2, 2015

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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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