Lost & Found Web Radio, 3/19/10

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Welcome to the March 19 episode of Lost & Found Radio where every week we search the web from top to bottom for 1/2 an hour of the the newest independent music anywhere. To listen, you can right click on the link above to download or just click the green play button on the streaming player. And please leave us some feeback in the comments!

1)      Loch Lomond – Wax & Wire

2)      Boy Eats Drum Machine – Hoop + Wire (Free Download)
A Portland based musician currently on tour. He is stopping into Devner this Wednesday, March 26 at the Rex Lounge. Check it out.

3)      LAZARE – Bad Moon Rising

4)      Snorri Helgason – Freeze-Out (Free Download)

5)      Make Phantoms – Backyards

6)      Pink Elephants – Open Your Eyes

7)      Symphony of Science with Carl Sagan ft. Stephan Hawking – Glorious Dawn
Symphony of Science and Carl Sagan, a musical project headed by John Boswell designed to deliver scientific knowledge and philosophy in musical form.

The song was generated from clips of Carl Sagan’s TV show Cosmos and turned into this amazing video:

Music and Video: John Boswell
Lyrics: Carl Sagan, Ann Druyan and Steven Soter

8)      Human – Fever Dream (Free Download)  

A pretty cool short film with more music by Human:

The Sandpit from Sam O’Hare on Vimeo.

(“Balloon Race” by Stewarts Commercial Photographers, 1912. Image 013-5298 Copyright Pikes Peak Library District)

Just try to say “No” to this song. Then try saying it in Khmer.

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“Don’t Take My Baby Away” by The Haunted Windchimes

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Well, to those in the know, Pueblo has always been cool. But The Haunted Windchimes just reminded us all. They’re one of our favorite bands around here at KRCC. Not only has the Pueblo-based band created a Western sound with deep local roots, but they’ve also rolled it out onto the dance floor of the future so we can all stomp our feet to it. That, and they’re just great people, always willing to play a backyard party, a Meadowgrass or to give our listeners a free song (see above). In other words, they are both of and about us all. And we like that.

As such, we’d be remiss if we didn’t implore you to help them celebrate the release of their brand new CD, Honey-Moonshine at Stargazers Theatre this Saturday, March 20 at 7 p.m. You can click HERE or see the poster below for full details. And scroll down to see a video of the Haunted Windchimes recording the title track from their new album at the amazing Western Jubilee Recording Studios here in Colorado Springs.

In honor of SXSW, here’s a gem from the WFMU’s recordings at the event in 2008: “Vociferous Slam” by late-70s Brit-punk geniuses Homosexuals. This version bears a remarkable likeness to the original recording after so many years, i.e. it rocks. (With apologies, I have to dedicate this song to Mr. Chris Selvig who introduced me to this amazing band).

(Courtesy of the Colorado Springs Pioneers Museum, Tim Nicholson Collection, which includes “Black and white unidentified photographs depicting various people in various places. Includes photographs of the Myers Family, Dorothy Palmer, Marjorie (Palmer) Watt, friends and family of the Palmers, the Harrison Family, and the Wagon Wheel Gap.”)

Click HERE to browse more photos from the Colorado Springs Pioneers Museum’s online database.

(All photos in this slideshow are by Helen and James McCaffery, courtesy of Special Collections, Pikes Peak Library District. Best viewed in full screen mode by clicking on arrows in lower-right corner of slide show)

Warning: For those who imagine a quaint and walkable downtown Colorado Springs full of beautiful buildings, apartments and entertainment venues, this slide show may painful to watch (probably even more painful than our slide show of the destruction of The Burns/Chief Theater because the scope is so much larger). It’s a stark portrait of the destructive local history of urban renewal that took place across the United States after World War II when the country wanted to look toward the future more than the past (and make a bunch of money while doing so). We now live in different times, and many have come to value our history in different ways and would rather see renovation and restoration rather than wholesale destruction and rebuilding. Sadly, many of the great buildings we once had would be impossible to rebuild both because of lost building techniques and cost.

In any case, these photos, which were created as “retrophotography composites” by the PPLD’s Special Collections, are a rare color portrait of downtown’s past and past-future. The collection was just recently posted at the Pikes Peak Public Library’s lovely online archive and we highly recommend searching “McCaffery” to see their other photos.

Katie Rudolph, the Pikes Peak Public Library’s Photo Archivist, wrote:

James and Helen McCaffery took photos of the urban renewal that was taking place in Colorado Springs in the 1950-1970s. The photos were taken by amateur photographers, but most are in color (a bit unusual for 1950s, 1960s photos) and capture the destruction that was going on during that time period. Helen and James photographed buildings prior to demolition and after—such as the Antlers Hotel, the Chief Theater, Latonia Apartments, and Glockner Hospital. Though James passed away, Helen McCaffery has been working with one of our volunteers, Nita Peters, to identify many of the photos and match up some of the pre-demolition and post-demolition images. Helen still has the bug to photograph more of the sites around Colorado Springs.

We’d love to hear from you in the comments if you have any memories of the bygone buildings in these photos or the urban renewal process in Colorado Springs. Thanks!