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From last year’s All Tomorrow’s Parties:
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If you were listening to KRCC this past Saturday at 1 p.m. we hope you caught the pilot episode of a new hour-long radio show called Snap Judgment. If you didn’t, you missed a rare moment on public radio: the birth of an excellent new public radio program hosted by an African American. And luckily for you, you can listen to the whole thing again right here by right-clicking on the blue link to download or clicking on the play button to stream.
Created by Glynn Washington, one of the winners of the
While the show borrows some of the tried-and-true production elements from TAL (music beds that enhance the narrative with far more hip-hop), it focuses more on stories about the moments when people are forced to make decisions (or not) that will change their lives irrevocably. Among the stories in this first episode on the theme of “passing”: a man with the name Mohammed decides to fly internationally without his green card; an introverted, 12-year old African American math prodigy is sent to college 1,000 miles away from home.
You can download the podcast above by right-clicking on the blue link or you can stream it by clicking the play button. Enjoy and tune in next Saturday at 1 p.m. for the second episode. We’ll air three more episodes in February. Snap Judgment will go into full production later this Spring and your feedback will help us decide if we want to carry it full-time.
Let us know what you think in the comments or send us an email to thebigsomething@krcc.org. Thanks!
Electro-pop Balladeer Robintone serenades Maid Martha:
Welcome back to another episode of Lost & Found, where every week we get lost on the internet to find the freshest new independent music on the web for you. (right-click on the link below to download, or stream by clicking the play button).
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1) the self-help tapes – intro
A sound-collage project.
2) Quillion – Take a Bow
Is Quillion an imaginary number that only Bill Gates can comprehend? Perhaps Quillion is a science-fiction term reminiscent of swords, wizards, and dragons… The band Quillion would prefer you think of it as comfort food for the ears, seasoned with a melancholy dose of Tobasco.
3) Gritch – Distance (Radio Edit) (Free Download)
On April 28, 2009, the band issued its 2nd release entitled “Sunday Morning Train EP”. The EP features 4 new songs and 4 tracks with new takes on songs found on the band’s 2008 LP “the world was asleep…”
4) The Help Desk – My Favorite Wrapper
The Help Desk infuses the pulp of pop with the essence of soul, rock, blues, and jazz in a tornado of hooks and blitzkrieg of harmonies, reclaiming pop from the basement of guilty pleasure. With the rhythmic sense of the dustiest Motown record; gritty guitars that cut solos like Ginsu; plush harmonies that tuck you in at night; and lead vocals richly reminding the listener how good a marriage of melody and meaning can be. This isn’t just pop music…its diversapop!
5) Garrett Suggs – The Game
6) Tiny Letters – You Did It, Man (Free Download)
7) Tequila Mockingbird – Actual Size
A Denver based band, from their new album “Luck and Trouble” coming out on Feb. 12.
8) Eric Shiveley – Dodge City Blues
From his 2008 documentary “Everyone But You”
With a tip o’ the cap to the Henry Darger pieces over at the I.D.E.A. Space in the “Seeing Stories” exhibition, here’s “Wild Eyes” by the Vivian Girls:
(That terrifying clown is Lon Chaney!)
What do the Harlem Globetrotters, Johnny Cash, Rachmaninoff, Dolly Parton, Snoop Dogg, Willie Nelson, Michelle Obama, numerous antique dealers, wrestlers, boxers, derby dames, cats, dogs and a whole lot of Jehovah’s witnesses have in common? That’s right, they’ve all graced the stage and floors of the the historic City Auditorium, one of the greatest architectural and cultural treasures in Colorado Springs.
Aside from its architecture and illustrious guest list , the auditorium is also home to the Lon Chaney Theater (named after the great silent film actor and native son of Colorado Springs) and the 1927 Mighty Wurlitzer Pipe Organ, which, according to the excellent Friends of the Historic City Auditorium website was installed in in 1976 after having been saved from the Burns Theatre before it was leveled. The lunettes in its foyer also house two exquisite WPA-era murals by local Broadmoor Academy artists Tabor Utley (who painted the famous image of Martha Graham dancing onstage at the Fine Art Center’s opening in 1936) and Archie Musick.
Sadly, after years of fending off developers and scraping by on ancient infrastructure, another potentially devastating blow has been dealt to our grand dame of classical revival. 
As a result of the City’s budget crisis, the auditorium is on its own now to make a go of it … or go dark. As such, management is open to ideas and events from the public that stay true to the motto emblazoned above the stage: “USUI CIVIUM DECORI URBUS“, or “For the use of the people and the glory of the city.”
In that spirit, KRCC is proud to sponsor Saturday evening’s fundraiser for the City Aud featuring a lineup with four local bands: Jeremy Facknitz & Charlie Milo Trio, Molten Audio Experience and Sound Shop. Here’s a track by Jeremy Facknitz that we recorded at KRCC in October to whet ye olde whistle (right click to download, or just click the play button to stream)
“Bijou Bridge” by Jeremy Facknitz
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It’s only $10 and all proceeds will benefit the City Auditorium. The show begins at 8 p.m. at 221 E. Kiowa.
Check back with The Big Something for more on the City Auditorium and future concerts that will help preserve it, restore it and keep it in public hands.
(All historic photos courtesy of the Pikes Peak Library District. The top photo is Part of Gordon Sweet collection and a gift of the Gordon Sweet estate, ca. 1920s. The bottom photo is a “Jaycee Convention” by Stewarts Commercial Photography, part of the Stewarts Collection, June 1949)
These boots were made for gargling:
