Julia Kirkwood

Bubbly and infectious but grounded in soulful understanding and bold self-revelation, young singer-songwriter Julia Kirkwood’s music merges pop with hints of indie, jazz, and alternative. Snappy rhythms and bright guitar lines combine with vocals that range from bold to lilting, while Julia’s lyrics reflect a sense of purpose beyond her years, focusing on themes of self-realization and human connection.

Rose Signet (formerly jinnjinni)

Rose Signet (formerly recording / performing as jinnjinni), is the intimate dream-rock project of singer / songwriter Josh Martin with Liz Gaylor (violin). Formed in Fort Collins, Colorado in 2017, they are currently residing in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Their first full-length album jinnjinni (2018) contains delicate melodies that veer towards experimentation submerged in reverb. Salt Magazine describes ‘swirling yet unified melodic elements’ and ‘the perfect album to get lost in’.

Janet Earth

Janet Earth is the bedroom-pop solo project of AJ Frankson, a gal with a knack for writing spacey tunes for those special sad girl hours. With the backing of a full band, Janet Earth has delivered powerful chords and heart-wrenching lyrics since forming in 2019. Janet Earth has released one official single, Never Tell, on all streaming platforms and has a 4-song demo EP on Bandcamp.

Jade Vases

Drawn from a junk drawer of mangled signals and minor tragedies, Silver Dots, the debut EP from Denver’s Jade Vases – Stephen Anderson (vocals, guitar), Ryan Servis (vocals, keys), Jake Moss, (vocals, guitar), Matt Hedgpeth (bass), and Lucas Huffman (drums) – is a meditation on ambiguity, asking the kind of questions that only lead to further introspection.

Ivory Circle

Ivory Circle is an indie-alternative band from Denver, Colorado, started by singer-songwriter Connie Hong and producer/multi-instrumentalist and Fort Collins native, Chris Beeble. They are joined by Rob Spradling on drums/ percussion. A former middle school choir teacher in a suburb of Aurora, Colorado, Hong used to write songs during her lunch breaks and play them for her students. She would eventually realize her passion was in creating and performing and left the public teaching field behind.

Isadora Eden

Isadora Eden is Easter Sunday turned horror movie. Mixing elements of indie rock, shoegaze, and gothic folk, Eden is blending genres to make what she and her collaborator Sumner Erhard affectionately call fuzz folk. It is music for walking home alone to after a party, doom scrolling til the sun comes up, and then driving around your abandoned hometown pretending you’re actually going to call your high school best friend. This feeling manifests across 11 tracks on Eden’s 2023 LP titled forget what makes it glow.

Instant Empire

Instant Empire hails from Denver, CO and has been chronicling the human condition in musical form since 2010. 2021 finds the band writing and recording a new album. Quarantined, exhausted by the dysfunctional state of the world and needing an outlet, the band’s latest batch of songs are a logical extension of their most recent LP, 2019’s Cathedrals. But it feels like the canvas has been broadened, and musically / thematically, the band continues to evolve. The new album will arrive on March 31, 2023.

Idlewhile

With an original catalog approaching 60 songs, Idlewhile has been showcasing their shiny-dark indie-Americana grooves all along the front range and beyond for over a decade. With a unique electric/acoustic line-up, this Longmont-based quartet punchtuates their hooky ballads and driving country-twinged rock songs with a tight rythm section and howling viola. But - it is the song that is the nurture - tales of collective resonance, rememberance, allegory, archetypal struggle, myth, loss and love. Take a ride, and plug in the mix-tape.

Hotel WiFi

Hotel WiFi is the alt-emo project of Jackson/Jae Smith (they/them). Since 2016 they have written songs that are emotional and vulnerable, yet also catchy and sometimes uplifting. In 2020 Smith recruited band mates from all over Colorado to form their backing band, The Passwords. Since then they've played venues such as The Drive and Jive, The Lyric, and Washington's. Hotel WiFi heads into 2023 performing brand new material.

Hot Sisters

Hailing from Colorado. Hot Sisters can be recognized by the post-grunge and alt-rock sound. Inspired by the heavy hitters of rock such as Chevelle, Tool, and Avenged Sevenfold. Hot Sisters maintain vocal dynamics and melodies similar to that of the 80s metal as well as 90s grunge.
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