Air Dubai accolades, Potcheen’s main stage upgrade, and more
Air Dubai gets praised. Sort of. Vaguely.
Our music scene is a busy place with lots happening. If you don’t obsessively visit the local blogs, alt-weeklies, and other outlets, you could miss something important! That’s okay—we’re here to help with a weekly roundup of some of the more enticing news happening around town.
• Air Dubai landed some nice—albeit vague—press on Monday over at the Sonicbids blog. Picking its artist of the week, the industry site loosely described the Dubai guys as “a bustling seven-piece ... with disparate musical backgrounds and indiscriminate influences.”
• What do punchy adjectives have to do with music anyway? Denver’s Potcheen calls its music “Celtic pirate rock,” which could translate to mean a lot of things. (Irish folk with a punky attitude? Fiddle-playing plunderers?) For the moment, it means a headlining slot at this year’s Breckenridge Celtic Festival, happening June 25 at the Main Street Station plaza. The band posted yesterday on the Denver Music Board that it got bumped up from the main support to the main band position, thanks in part to overwhelmingly positive reviews of its performance from last year’s attendees.
• Ex-Denver band Across Tundras (now based in Nashville) is making moves with a recently announced North American tour that goes through the rest of May and early June. There aren’t any Colorado dates yet, though future announcements for additional shows have been promised.
• The Outfit has been leaking songs from its upcoming full-length, Broken West Wishbone Test, on Bandcamp for weeks now. And with the release slated for this Friday at the Larimer Lounge, the Denver rock band has seemingly spoiled its own party by posting the entire album online for preview. So if you can’t make it to the show, you can at least try to fake it with a pair of awesome computer speakers.
• Ambitious metal outfit Trees will similarly show off its latest release this weekend with a decidedly modern party on Saturday at 3 Kings Tavern. Rather than just hocking CDs and T-shirts, the band is offering cards to all showgoers with a link to a free download of the new album. A live show and a digital experience—it’s almost the best of both worlds.
