“Exclusives: Download Reverb's Mile Markers” |
| Exclusives: Download Reverb's Mile Markers Posted: 13 Mar 2011 12:19 AM PST  Fran Healy of the band Travis. (Photos by John Hendrickson, The Denver Post ) What is a Mile Marker? It's a point in time when an artistbig, small, local, national — swings through Uneven Studios in Five Points to hang out and record a few exclusive songs for readers of Reverb, The Post's music site at heyreverb.com. These tracks are specifically chosen by the artist and put to tape in a live recording session, then made available for free download a few weeks later. A Mile Marker, in short, is a moment, however beautiful or flawed that moment might be. We're not the first to do this. Popular sites like Daytrotter and La Blogotheque have popularized intimate sessions with bands of all genres the past few years. What we're offering is different: a chance for the artist to kick around in a professional studio space and come up with something unique, some variation of the same song you can download on iTunes. When we redesigned Reverb last fall and effectively transformed a tangent blog (denverpost.com/reverb) into an interactive, multimedia website (heyreverb.com), we knew that we wanted to give our readers as much free music as possible. Because, in the end, music is what keeps us out dancing and crowdsurfing late into the night (and what drives us to work early the next morning). We'll post a new Mile Marker session on the home page of heyreverb .com every Friday, and this is your invitation to come listen, watch and download at your leisure. Check us out at heyreverb.com, and feel free to stay awhile for the most comprehensive music coverage in the Rocky Mountain region. Who's been on Mile Markers recently: • Brit-pop songwriter (and Travis singer) Fran Healy • Portland, Ore., folksters Horse Feathers • Indie rock hero (and  Drummer Patrick Ryan, foreground, of the Mississippi band Colour Revolt repairs him cymbal in the backyard of Uneven Studio in Denver, above. (Photos by John Hendrickson | The Denver Post) • Denver-based folk troubadour Nathaniel Rateliff • Mississippi art rockers Colour Revolt • Colorado bluegrass band Head For The Hills • Buzzy New York indie pop band Hurricane Bells • Austin-based rock act Oh No Oh My John Hendrickson This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service — if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read our FAQ page at fivefilters.org/content-only/faq.php |
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