08-12-25 morning show – its music, its the morning, its bottlerag

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Show Notes

The Motet – Cretan

Intro

First song was Cretan by the Motet, they are an American junk, soul and jaz influenced group based in Denver founded by drummer and bandleader Dave Watts. They’e been touring since 99 and keep it going. Next show is in Las Vegas on September 10th. But they’ll be in Colorado again in Colorado Springs on December 5th and in Fort Collins on December 6th

Welcome to the show, today is a day of just hanging out and finding some good music!

Octave Cat – Talk to Me
The Magic Beans – Sweet Thang
Cage The Elephant – Free Love

Traffic

Usual slow spots around the metro area

• slow going into Boulder
• slow all around Denver in and out
• slow going into golden
• slow near the Denver Tech Center

There is of course our regularly scheduled dose of useless construction everywhere causing slower speeds and are they really doing anything?

Incident on I-70 mostly cleared up now heading

Please read up on the article Denver’s Skeleton by Billy Switters on the main page to learn more about some of the construction happenings.

CAKE – Short Skirt/Long Jacket
The Home Team – Loud
Psychedelic Porn Crumpets – Cubensis Lenses

Quick break to check in and see what is going on, maybe emails?

High Fade – Burnin’
Lo Air – Dead Poet Society
Red Hot Chili Peppers – Tippa My Tongue

News/Events

Music

• Green Valley Ranch Mainstage Concert Series (Green Valley Ranch Town Center Park); This is a free outdoor music series from 5:30-7:30 this week featuring Home Slice
• B-Side Music Fridays – Rooftop live music featuring Colorado artists at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Denver. This Friday the 15th is featuring Namebackwards & Fruta Brutal
• All summer usually there is a summer long concert series hosted by the Levitt Pavilion in Denver in Ruby Hill Park
• Every sunday through the summer there is the City Park Jazz music series under the pavilion in City Park every Sunday hosting jazz and blues concerts
• Orchard Town Center Summer Concert Series in Westminsteer is held every Saturday through the summer with the next one featuring That Eighties Band on August 16th

Art Exhibitions

• Charles Sandison: Chamber – This exhibition at the Denver Art Museum wraps up this weekend.
• First Anniversary Show at D’Art 360 Gallery – Celebrate the gallery’s first anniversary with a showcase of its work, also concluding this weekend.
• Novo Ita immersive experience – An interactive art and augmented reality installation at Spectra Art Space, extended through September 27th

Other Events This Week

• Parade of Homes – Tour nearly 70 newly designed homes freely from 12-5pm Thursday to sunday
• ThriftCon -A vintage shopping expo at the National Western Complex
• Colorado Beef Festival – Featuring live music, chef competitions, and more at MSU Denver
• Cinema q Film Festival – Denvers LGBTQ+ film fest at the Sie Film Center from Friday to Sunday
• Boulder County Fair – Standard county fair with rodeos, live music, food trucks, and carnival rides up in Longmont

Rage Against The Machine – Bombtrack
Ripe – Five in the Morning
Steel Beans – Molotov Cocktail Lounge
The Heavy – How You Like Me Now
Public Theatre – Grim Reaper
Bleeker – Highway

Weather

Today is a high of 90F and a low of 63F looking clear with a good view for the meteor shower
Winds heading north at 3mph and gusts up to 6mph
Air quality is of course poor cause it isn’t ever anything much better here

Week in weather, remember to tune in next week to hear about the weather next week

We will be breaking some record highs tomorrow but the week looks mostly clear otherwise

13hours and 51 mintues of sun and the moon is a waning gibbous

allergens seem moderate to high today so don’t go out with asthma or other lung type conditions

The Wrecks – Out Of Style
The Neighbourhood – Stargazing
Cage The Elephant, Beck – Night Running
Beck – E-Pro
Black Pistol Fire – Pick Your Poison

Final Sendoff

Thank you for tuning into the show!
I do this every Tuesday from 9-11am MST
I am not the only host here, tune in to Milkweed Mondays and Tuesdays from 7-9pm also MST
This does make Tuesdays the day for Bottlerag!

Check out the show after the show with the post which include show notes, or the radio archive

Feel free to email staff@bottlerag.org to let me know what you think of the show, send in a song request, or give me recommendations for my other show weird and whacky instruments which comes around once a month

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Transcript pasted here when available