It’s the weekend after Thanksgiving, and many people (myself included) are tired from all the cooking, turkey consumptioin, and Black Friday/Small Business Saturday shopping. Well.. what better to energize you right up again than a new CITRA set?!

Here we are… it’s the biggest shopping day of the year! Black Friday is that day we all wait for - waiting in line for hours (in past years) to snag a deal on a big screen TV, Apple Watch, new kitchen appliances, or clothes galore. Black Friday is also traditionally the day to get your Christmas shopping knocked out. Consider this: Though many aren’t having sales, you can spend less money to support your local Colorado music scene on Black Friday and still knock out your gift shopping and a little shopping for yourself. Here are seven ways how:

Happy Thanksgiving everyone! While the holiday this year may look a lot different from those in years past, there is so much to be grateful for in 2020. Yes, the year has had its downs… lots of them… but there have been some silver linings, and there has been ample time for reflection on these little sparks of light in the dark.

One of the things I am most thankful for is the opportunity to be a part of the Colorado Music Scene.

The upcoming new year means a lot more than usual this time around, at least to me. With 2021 on the horizon, a Covid vaccine in the works, and the promise of warm weather and the possibility of gathering with friends in the future, I’m cautiously seeing a light at the end of the tunnel - and it makes my heart swell with hope. The new year is also a tried-and-true time for reflection - and we have much to reflect on this year. In 2020, we faced countless obstacles as a human species. We came up against a foe not as nation against nation, religion vs. religion, or any other man-made construct of confrontation, but as humans with the need to band together to get through a year so rough that it sometimes seemed as though we were living in the matrix. What will we learn from this? How will we grow from it, as individuals and as a group? Will we take the lessons learned to heart, or throw them out as soon as things return to normal? While we walk this line between hope and reflection, Graham Good and The Painters will give us the perfect soundtrack for both. The feel-good kings of NoCo are set to release their debut full-length self-titled album early next year. They haven’t set an exact release date yet, but you can look for the album in the first few months of 2021. I got the chance to hear the new record ahead of time, and I’m so excited to give you a preview of the good things that are coming.

Right now, a band or musician’s online presence is everything. There’s little to no opportunity to play live shows, so online promotion and posting is about the only way to reach their audience. However, musicians are musicians - they’re brilliant at playing music, but transitioning to a 100% online strategy can be hard for some. Over the next few weeks, I’ll be sharing my tips and tricks to marketing your band online for begginners. Today, I’m going to give an overview of creating your online brand on social media, organically (without paying).

Well… it happened. We’re here again - in the red. We can’t eat inside restaurants, enjoy the company of friends at bars, or be graced with the gift of in-person live music of any kind. So many people are hurting right now, and the music community is one of the top industries when it comes to lost income due to the Covid-19 Pandemic. The local scene and independent venues have been especially hard, as many don’t have a security fund to fall back on. Local venue owners, full-time musicians, stage hands, lighting designers, sound engineers, and others involved behind the scenes have likely put everything they’ve got into the role they love. However, that doesn’t mean you can’t support your friends who are musicians or who work behind the scenes in the industry. Here’s how:

Today, Silver And Smoke announced the complete lineup for their first ever headline appearance at The Bluebird Theatre, slated for January 2, 2020.

The lineup gained two female-fronted Denver powerhouse bands: Mlady and SolSatellite. Indie/Dreamy Pop Mlady and Nu-Soul Funk SolSatellite join direct support Two Faces West in this celebration of local music.

I founded Sonder Music Management because I believe so much in Colorado music - not just as a blip in history, but as a movement that is truly making waves, and changing the landscape in more ways than one. It’s becoming widely accepted that Colorado, and Denver specifically, will emerge on the map in 2020 to compete on the national level with music cities like Nashville, Chicago, New York, and L.A. 

Music is connection. Music is community. Music is a story. That being said, I have been thinking for a while that I really want to tell the story of local Colorado music, but I can’t do it on my own. So, I plan to talk with those making the music in Denver, Fort Collins, Colorado Springs, Pueblo, Durango, and every town in between. 

There are always so many concerts to choose from in Colorado! No matter where you are - Denver, one of our many beautiful Colorado mountain towns, Fort Collins, Greeley, Colorado Springs, Pueblo, or anywhere in between - there’s no shortage of live music. Here at Sonder, we love local - and while you can see lots of National acts rolling through, we like to focus on those musical cats that are from our great state of Colorado. Here are our local Colorado concert picks for November 1-3, 2019.

I founded Sonder Music Management because I believe so much in Colorado music - not just as a blip in history, but as a movement that is truly making waves, and changing the landscape in more ways than one. It’s becoming widely accepted that Colorado, and Denver specifically, will emerge on the map in 2020 to compete on the national level with music cities like Nashville, Chicago, New York, and L.A. 

Music is connection. Music is community. Music is a story. That being said, I have been thinking for a while that I really want to tell the story of local Colorado music, but I can’t do it on my own. So, I plan to talk with those making the music in Denver, Fort Collins, Colorado Springs, Pueblo, Durango, and every town in between. 

There are always so many concerts to choose from in Colorado! No matter where you are - Denver, one of our many beautiful Colorado mountain towns, Fort Collins, Greeley, Colorado Springs, Pueblo, or anywhere in between - there’s no shortage of live music. Here at Sonder, we love local - and while you can see lots of National acts rolling through, we like to focus on those musical cats that are from our great state of Colorado. Here are our local Colorado concert picks for November 1-3, 2019.

When the now very popular Open Mic Night was established at The Alley in Historic Downtown Littleton a few years ago, Hannah Diones was one of the first consistent performers. It wasn’t long before people started coming to Open Mic just to hear Hannah sing. She wrote incredibly compelling, beautiful, and relatable songs and delivered them with a voice that’s one-in-a-million. Despite her young age, Hannah was already writing beautifully haunting and mature material, and everyone who knew her, myself included, considered her a friend and an inspiration. She’s an old soul, and so easy to connect with.