Appendix E-J

Summer time: yard work, high end yard games, drinking coffee on quiet mornings in your backyard.

All these things are greatly encouraged. Especially when the coffee is bought from Everyday Joe’s with a special, one-of-a-kind mug. Whoopsy. Just almost let a little secret slip. More later.

Music also goes well with grass and trees. Lucky for you, several friends of Everyday Joe’s have new or new-ish music for your ears. Stream ‘em all right here and enjoy your ladder golf.

JOSH GARRELS: LOVE & WAR  & THE SEA IN BETWEEN

This gem is hot off the digital presses. Mr. Garrels is offering it as a free download for a year (!) at his Bandcamp page.

Good for: early mornings in the yard, late evenings burning the citronella tiki torches.

YOU ME & APOLLO: CARDS WITH CHEATS

It’s a solid one. So solid you won’t be able to stop listening or strutting.

Good for: Downing tasty bevs under the midday sun, playing washers with the neighbors.

JAY J MATOTT & THE ARCTIC: TO THE BIG RIVER

This album is the surprise of the year. It is to these ears what You Me & Apollo was two years ago and what Nightbeds was one year ago.

Good for: contemplative grilling, cleaning up…post the rager you threw while listening to You Me & Apollo, driving to iHop in the rain, wandering the vacant streets of an early morning Oldtown Ft. Collins.

Popularity: 8% [?]

The Agents of Future are some of my favorite people/one of our favorite bands on the face of the planet in its entirety. They were part of the 2009 90/10 Benefit. My guess is – regardless of what believe – you want some part of what they carry around with them.

Observe:

Popularity: 8% [?]

Update, 7/1/08, 3:15 pm: The following post was composed and posted this morning in order to congratualte our friends in Tickle Me Pink on the release of their debut album on Wind-Up records. Just a little bit ago, we were informed that the band’s bassist, Johnny Schou, was found this morning, dead at his home. Our prayers and hearts are with everyone in the TMP family…because they are our family. We love you very, very much.

…a MySpace banner ad.

Those guys from Fort Collins that signed to the label started by those guys from Creed are starting to pop up places. For example, Everyday Joe’s friend Jon Alonzo heard them on the satellite radio while serving ice cream to sugar-addicted five-year-olds at Ben & Jerry’s.

From time to time, I like to peruse the MySpace pages of some of my favorite muscal artists to see when they might be in Colorado and if it would be possible to have them play at Everyday Joe’s. Last night I was checking on the dear Marla Hansen when I saw this:

There they are, at the top of the page in all their black & white photoshopped glory. It’s a fun time to see bands from Fort Collins succeed. I wonder where that picture was taken. Perhaps in front of The Blasting Room?

Either way, good luck to you fellows of Tickle Me Pink on this, the day your debut album “Madeline” is to be released. Everyday Joe’s loves you very much. Last time you played here, you left a guitar rack. Pick it up if you like, or we’ll hold on to it and possibly sell it one day.

Further:

• Tickle Me Pink official site
• Marla Hansen MySpace
• Wind-Up Records official site
• Link to the place that banner ad would take you

Popularity: 12% [?]

Update 8/24/2008: Juan’s program has moved from Plum TV to Pitchfork Media’s Pitchfork.tv (exciting and good)

I recently made a discovery. A discovery that sung directly to my heart and as a result that muscle in my chest began beaming forth the light of a choir of angels…just like in Care Bears.

There is an Argentine-American. His name is Juan. He lives in Brooklyn. He has a basement. Through some sort of sweet talking or mind tricks or plain passion, he has convinced several great indie bands to perform in his basement. The performances are filmed and broadcast on Plum TV Pitchfork.tv. I imagine his days go something like this:

“Hello Juan, what are you doing today,” friend asks.

“Oh,” says Juan. “I’m going to run and get some coffee and then Josh Ritter is coming over at 11:15 to play some music in my basement. How about you?”

Friend looks a bit confused and dazed and replies:

“I see. I was gonna’ ask if you wanted to come over and see my new IKEA furniture I just finished assembling, but you sound too busy for the Swedish innovations in home decor. I’ll talk to you later.”

House concerts are making a small ressurgance in this day and age, and are something I have dreamed of doing for a long time. Everyday Joe’s can often feel like a home. Everyone who comes in here is part of the family.

Methinks Juan’s Basement and Everyday Joe’s are distant relatives of some sort. How distant? Not sure. Regardless, get through your friday by following the links to videos from Juan’s Basement below. I’ve posted my favorite for you to view.

Further:

• Listing of Juan’s Basement videos on YouTube
• Juan’s Basement official site

Popularity: 21% [?]

A few of us around Everyday Joe’s subscribe to the Very Short List. VSL is always a good source for something to occupy your time while it should be occupied by something else.

Recently, VSL pointed out the site TuneGlue. It helps you explore the degrees of separation between musicians, which fascinates me to no end…especially when I begin with artists who play here at Everyday Joe’s. I’d recommend starting with Josh Dillard and seeing where it takes you.

The only gripe I’ve heard is you can’t listen to the music of the folks who pop up. Fortunately, there are a multitude of sites to help you with that. FineTune or Pandora are nice.

Enjoy. This should help get you through Thursday & Friday and back to the weekend.

Further:

• TuneGlue
• Very Short List
• Josh Dillard Myspace
• FineTune
• Pandora

Popularity: 19% [?]

Hold on there, buddy. Put that economic stimulus check back in your pocket.

Appendix E-J has music for you, but it’s positively free. Free for you to download and listen to again and again and again until the musical structures have seared themselves into your brain and they become the soundtrack to all your thoughts.

Our friends in the Autumn Film are starting to make quite the name for themselves down in Denver, as well as reaching their musical tentacles out into other musical communities (Aubrea Alford plays violin on Trace Bundy’s new DVD). Although the official release date for this EP is on May 20, they’d like you to have it now. Just click on the picture.

Further:

• The Autumn Film official site
• The Autumn Film myspace

Popularity: 23% [?]

Over the years, the Everyday Joe’s family and the Enter The Worship Circle family have become quite tangled and intertwined in a sort of friendly slap fight where everyone laughs and falls down and then eats nachos together.

Last week, Enter The Worship Circle: Fourth Circle was released. It is one giant collaboration between Ben, & Robin Pasely, Jacob & Lily, Aaron Strumpel, The Blackthorn Project, and the audio engineering prowess of Dave Wilton (aboyandhiskite). A giant collaboration between those folks is most likely some sort of monumental feat. And by monumental, I do mean it could deserve a giant statue of itself.

Mr. Strumpel – being the dear that he is – has shared a track from the album with the appendix. Please enjoy “Give Me Your Hand.” It features a glockenspiel, people. Glockenspiel!

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Further:

• Buy Enter The Worship Circle: Fourth Circle
• Enter The Worship Circle official site
• Blackthorn Project official site
• Aaron Strumpel official site
• Jacob & Lily official site
• Aboyandhiskite Composes Podcast, Vicariously Wins Daytona 500

Popularity: 18% [?]

If you picked up a copy of Thursday’s (5/8/08) edition of the Rocky Mountain Collegian, a couple familiar faces may have been staring back at you…or staring off into the musical distance.

Everyday Joe’s musical son Jon Alonzo and our good friend Dave Maddocks – along with the rest of the Act So Big Forest musical community – were featured in a cover story written by our very own volunteer Maggie Canty. We’ve watched most of the Forest grow up before our very eyes…Winderous Igloos, Airships, Josh Dillard, Candy Claws…the list goes on. They are an endless source of creativity and can often leave you with your head cocked to one side, a bit confused.

They are great and we love them very much. Read the article here. Paean, another member of the forest, will release their new album at Everyday Joe’s on June 6 with special guest Maxwell Hughes

Further:

• Act So Big Forest myspace
• Livin’ Large With Marge - Maggie’s weekly column
• Paean myspace
• Maxwell Hughes Myspace

Popularity: 24% [?]

Audio treats coming out of our ears, people.

Out of ours and into yours.

This Saturday, the fantastic Brooke Waggoner will make her Everyday Joe’s debut. She makes her home in Nashville and runs around with the likes of Katie Herzig and Mute Math and Bell X1. Could she fall in the “rock star” category? No, because she’s too nice and lovely. Rock stars wouldn’t share a song with us. Very good musicians who will be well-known and probably help save the world share songs.

Show starts at 7 pm. $5 at the door, Dan Craig & The Riflemen will open the night up.

That’s enough out of me. Take a listen to “Hush If You Must.”

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Popularity: 21% [?]

Everyday Joe’s has a very good friend. His name is Luke Flowers

Luke lives in Colorado Springs. He is a very, very good artist. He created the art for our gift cards, the art for our punch cards, the poster and tickets for our first 90/10 Benefit, and posters for several other concerts. He’s also done album and poster artwork for Jars Of Clay, Trace Bundy, Braddigan, Newcomers Home, The Blackthorn Project, and Jonah Werner among others. He’s family. I’d give him studio space in the building if he would move here. He was featured on “Love, Everyday Joe’s- Vol. 1: No More Gloom.”

When he’s not playing with his kids or drawing pictures for a living, he makes music that is quite listenable…both as a solo artist and with his side project, SameName. New albums were recently released on both fronts, and Mr. Flowers has been kind enough to send a couple of songs to the Appendix for your listening pleasure. Have a listen, then buy the albums.

“More Than Water” by Luke Flowers

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“Stephanie Pytlinksi” by SAMENAME

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Further:

• Luke Flowers Design official site
• Luke Flowers Music official site
• SAMENAME official site

Popularity: 19% [?]