ZetaKaye House : Independent Arts
Presale tickets available now! You can purchase tickets here: http://   'This Ain't No Cowtown (A Colorado Comp), Vol III (Kings) is now available!! You can download the 27 track/27 band comp for FREE or 'Name Your Price' with ALL proceeds going to Rev Jim Norris' medical bills. You may already know that several weeks ago Jim Norris ([Rev] co-owner
of 3 Kings Tavern) was hospitalized for almost a week with a spider bite
that nearly killed him. Fortunately, Jim is recovering well and is
almost back to full speed. Unfortunately (like many of us), Jim is without insurance. "Tauntaun is pleased to announce a show to benefit Jim Norris (Rev Jim [owner of 3 Kings Tavern]). We met Jim when we were playing in The Gamits, Uphollow, and Pinhead Circus in the '90s, and think of him more as a friend than as a promoter or venue owner. Tauntaun hasn't played together since September 2010....but, when we heard that Jim needed help paying medical bills from a recent 6-day stay in the hospital, we knew that we could offer assistance by getting back on the horse, or jumping into the fire, or in this case, crawling out of our nice, cozy Tauntaun. Rust is being removed, muscles stretched, lyrics remembered. Tauntaun is preparing for a special show. Presented by ZetaKaye House, this show will take place at 3 Kings Tavern on February 10th, 2012." - TT http:// Also featuring: -Git Some - https://www.facebook.com/ -Speedwolf - https://www.facebook.com/ -Lion Sized - https://www.facebook.com/ With special guest host/MC: -Sid Pink - https://www.facebook.com/ Guest DJ: -Eryc Eyl (DJ Savior Breath) Fashion show in the Phoenix Gallery provided by: -Fast Geek Boutique - https://www.facebook.com/ Presale tickets available now! Limited to 200 tickets online. You can purchase tickets here: http://
'This Ain't No Cowtown (A Colorado Comp)', Vol 2 is now available to download for FREE! 25 tracks from 25 Colorado bands! Download for free here: http://thisaintnocowtown.bandcamp.com/album/this-aint-no-cowtown-vol-2 Artwork (by Andy Schneider) for This Ain't No Cowtown, Vol 1 (A Colorado Comp).
The Hi-Dive Hullabaloo is coming July 1st & 2nd: ZetaKaye release residency takes over Lost Lake Lounge in June Cowtown. It’s a pejorative that haunted Denver for years and still gets thrown around from time to time. Those of us in the know realize that whatever merit that appellation might have held, it’s hardly fair now. For one thing, you pretty much have to go to Greeley to see any cows, except when the stock show is in town. For another, “cowtown” is supposed to mean a boring, sleepy place where there’s nothing cool happening. That isn’t Denver. For example, we’ve got a pretty kickass music scene (and only some of it references cows, cowboys, and other Western stylings). As evidence, ZetaKaye House has put together a sprawling new compilation series called This Ain’t No Cowtown. After sifting through more than 300 tracks submitted by 70 artists, John and Kim Baxter of ZetaKaye have hand-picked tracks from the best 22 artists (plus a handful of comedians, for laughs) for this first in a planned series. The free compilation will be available for download any day now, and to celebrate its releases, ZetaKaye has planned a “release residency” for next month at the Lost Lake Lounge. Starting at 9 p.m. every Thursday in June, a different selection of bands and several of the comedians from the comp will offer up some of their sounds live and in-person for the inebriated masses. It’s cheap, too—a $5 suggested donation gets you in the door, with proceeds going to the artists themselves, and if you like the music, they’ll have a limited-edition hard-copy of the compilation for sale. (Those proceeds also go to the artists.) "This Ain't No Cowtown, Vol 1" (A Colorado Comp) Greetings and Salutations All. It's been an extremely trying and stressful task, but with over 70 bands and over 300 tracks submitted we have finally come to the final track list for our first comp, "This Ain't No Cowtown, Vol 1" (A Colorado Comp). We cannot thank you all enough. This has truly been an amazing experience. We knew going into this that a lot of bands would be left out (but certainly not missed, mind you), which is why we have decided to make these compilations as a series, starting with Volume 1 of "This Ain't No Cowtown" (A Colorado Comp). Bands included on the comp: -The Big Motif: http://www.thebigmotif.com/ -Black Dots: http://www.reverbnation.com/blackdotrock -Black Sleep of Kali: http://www.myspace.com/blacksleepofkali -Chella Negro: http://www.reverbnation.com/chellanegro -Eolian: http://eolian.bandcamp.com/ -Glass Hits: http://glasshits.bandcamp.com/ -I Sank Molly Brown: http://www.myspace.com/isank -Il Cattivo: http://www.reverbnation.com/ilcattivo -Iuengliss/Tommy Metz: http://www.iuengliss.com/ -ManCub: http://www.reverbnation.com/mancub303 -The Morning Clouds: http://themorningclouds.bandcamp.com/album/wasted-youth-blues-ep -New Ben Franklins: http://www.myspace.com/newbenfranklinsus -Oliver Vanity: http://olivervanity.com/ -The Outfit: http://www.myspace.com/choosetheoutfit -The Raven and the Writing Desk: http://ravenandwritingdesk.com/ -Robin Walker (CougarPants): http://www.myspace.com/robinwalkeraddon -Royal Talons: http://www.reverbnation.com/royaltalons -Safe Boating Is No Accident: http://safeboatingisnoaccident.com/ -School Knights: http://schoolknights.bandcamp.com/ -Serious Moonlight: http://www.reverbnation.com/seriousmoonlight -Shiny Horses: http://www.myspace.com/shinyhorses -Snubluck: http://www.myspace.com/snubluck
Comedians included on the comp: -Greg Baumhauer: http://www.myspace.com/greg_23 -Adam Cayton-Holland: http://adamisfreakingoutrightnow.com/ -Chris Charpentier: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=690816192&sk=wall -Charly "City Mouse" Fasano (poet) -Brent the Great: http://www.myspace.com/brenthegreat -Nathan Lund: https://www.facebook.com/nathanlund -Ben Roy: http://www.benroyyellsalot.com/ -Sam "Danger" Tallent: https://www.facebook.com/sam.danger.tallent More comedians to be announced. The FREE digital download for this comp will be available soon! ZetaKaye House and Wax Trax Records Present: "This Ain't Now Cowtown" Comp Release Residency at Lost Lake Lounge (3602 E Colfax Ave): Thursday, June 2nd -The Outfit -New Ben Franklins -ManCub -Oliver Vanity https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=163793867013115 Thursday, June 9th -Greg Baumhauer (comedian) -Nathan Lund (comedian) -Brent the Great (comedian) -Robin Walker (CougarPants) -Snubluck (DJ) https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=142235535848764 Thursday, June 16th -Serious Moonlight -School Knights -The Big Motif -Chella Negro https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=212447178782619 Thursday, June 23rd -Adam Cayton-Holland (comedian) -Ben Roy (comedian) -Chris Charpentier (comedian) -Charly "City Mouse" Fasano (poet) -Safe Boating Is No Accident (Solo set) -Iuengliss (Tommy Metz) https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=111560962262905 Thursday, June 30th -Il Cattivo -Eolian -Royal Talons -The Raven and the Writing Desk -Sam "Danger" Tallent (comedian/host) https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=180385862011666 Doors are at 8PM and all shows at 9PM, with a $5 suggested donation (goes to the bands/comedians). We will also have limited hard copies for sale with proceeds going to all of the artists. AV Club article: http://www.avclub.com/denver/articles/zetakaye-release-residency-takes-over-lost-lake-lo,55839/ Westword Backbeat article: http://blogs.westword.com/backbeat/2011/04/zetakaye_house_is_jumping_into.php Thank you all so very much and we look forward to seeing you at Lost Lake Lounge in June! John Baxter ZetaKaye House @zetakayehouse
Guitarists have it made. When they want to jam, they just toss their axe into a case and head over to a buddy’s apartment for an evening of drunken renditions of “Smoke On The Water” and “Iron Man,” trading licks and enjoying the benefits of membership in the international brotherhood of guitar slingers. Drummers, however, are a largely solitary breed. The notion of drummers setting up in the same room for a night of camaraderie and jams-manship is almost an absurdity—a horrifyingly noisy absurdity. That is, until now. Although getting multiple drummers battering four or five full drum sets in the same room still generates enough decibels to wake the dead, the Drum Club makes it a possibility for drummers to indulge in the same informal collaborations as their guitarist friends. Held Sundays from 6 to 8 p.m. at 3 Kings Tavern, the Drum Club, which began meeting earlier this spring, mixes communal jams and solo-spouting showmanship in a celebration of good ol’ rock ’n’ roll drumming. That means you’ll need to find another place to drag out your bongos and bodhran to unleash your primitive side. “Of course, that’s what people think the minute we tell them about it—that it’s a hand-drum, world-percussion circle,” organizer Kim Baxter explains. “It’s fun, and I love playing at those things, and there’s definitely a place for them, but we wanted something first of all that would be all drum kits. We don’t want chaos. It can so easily descend into that. We don’t want it to turn into a chaotic drum-circle jam.” The club traces its roots back to informal jams at Baxter’s house, but recently found a kindred spirit in 3 Kings’ Jim Norris, who granted the club a meeting place free from the risk of neighborhood noise violations. Led by Baxter, 200 Million Years’ Carl Sorensen, and Jed Kopp of Il Cattivo, meetings seek to balance a bit of skill-polishing with the staple of jam sessions: random goofing off. Baxter admits attendance was meager at the first couple installments, but meetings have slowly swelled. Above all, the club serves as a place for Denver’s beat-makers to, in the lame-assed parlance of our times, network. If the number of drummers who play in multiple bands wasn’t an obtuse enough hint, drummers are a rare strain of musician in the Mile High City. The club’s primary purpose is merely to bring together like-minded musicians. “For the longest time, I didn’t feel like I was crossing paths with a whole lot of other drummers, or drummers that we could sit down and talk about the same stuff or geek out on the same stuff,” Baxter says. “I don’t know if that’s true with everybody. It just seems like recently over the last year, I’ve been meeting a lot more drummers and wanting myself to learn what they think about it, how they approach it.” http://www.avclub.com/denver/articles/drum-club-brings-the-beat-to-local-drummers,55247/ ZetaKaye House gathering submissions for planned series of Colorado-centric compilations
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In general terms, a compilation is most often used as a promotional tool for labels or magazines to draw awareness to their product. In the case of the ZetaKaye House, that's still essentially the purpose, but the product is the state of Colorado itself. "Musicians aren't always the best at promoting themselves," says ZetaKaye's John Baxter. "We wanted to help." And help they did. Earlier this month ZetaKaye put out a call for submissions in three categories, music, comedy and art. So far, the response has been astounding; over a hundred tracks from over forty bands have already been submitted, and there are still ten days left until the deadline. "It started with just a music comp," explains Baxter, "but we wanted to do something with the comedy scene too. Initially that was comedians dispersed through the music compilation, but that seemed jarring, so it became its own thing." Right now, nothing has been formalized for the actual distribution, but physical copies will exist, meaning the compilation will fit on a disc or possibly two. The same goes for the comedy angle; the comedy disc will be audio and should be perfect for long car rides. As far as submissions are concerned, it's currently an open process. Bands can email the ZetaKaye House links to tracks they'd like to be considered for inclusion. This compilation, which ZetaKaye hopes to be the first in a series, is open to anyone. "For this first one," Baxter points out, "we're looking for a passion in bands and artists who are willing to speak with us about it, not just send a link." ZetaKaye hopes to go a slightly more cohesive direction for the next one. "We do want it to grow and become more thematic over time," says Baxter, "with release shows that reflect that." For now, artists interested in providing work for the comp's cover or prints can contact ZetaKaye with pitches. Comedians and musicians can throw their hats into the ring as well, provided they do so before Saturday, April 30, the deadline for the first in the series. In addition to the physical discs, ZetaKaye will also be putting the compilations up for free on Bandcamp and are looking into different formats for a similar video service. http://blogs.westword.com/backbeat/2011/04/zetakaye_house_is_jumping_into.php Thank you to the UCD Advocate!Local bands celebrate...somethingBy Lauren SnyderWednesday, Feb 2, 2011The Hi-Dive recently hosted Zeta Kaye's Holiday Party & boyhollow's Birthday Party where bands Otto von Cousticon, Calder's Revolvers, and 200 Million Years performed.
I never caught the holiday being celebrated but even so enjoyed the
show. I felt relief when the crowd of nine grew to an audience of well, a
lot more.
The first band that performed at Zeta Kaye's holiday party was Otto von Cousticon. Some time after due show time I saw the band at the bar swinging back a few. The 45-minute beer break the band had taken before the show was worth the wait when they started playing. It was refreshing to see a female on the drums mainly because I had no idea the Asian chick in the corner with a half sleeve was even in the band until she sat down on the stool. The lead singer, Jeff Wiencrot, seemed to surprise the considerably undersized audience with a wide vocal range. Otto von Cousticon's good song structure consisted of bouncing harmonies and surprisingly good lyrics. Perhaps it was the wait, maybe it was the band's fun attitude, but I wasn't at all expecting the lyrics to be that good. Weincrot's energy mimicked that of Thom York, fearless hitting every note. The band overall seems as if they understand the genre they are pursuing. To my surprise, there isn't any music of the band's on the internet. These guys need to get into the studio immediately. Calder's Revolvers was next, a rock group infused with soul. They personally gave me a Steppenwolf feel at times. Lead singer Andy Schneider was simply powerhouse and bounced flawlessly between the keys and guitar. Standing out from the rest was the band's Brad Johnson, a tremendous blues guitarist. As with Otto von Cousticon, Calder's Revolvers doesn't have much music streaming online. However its blog recently made a free download of its EP available. The band does have a growing fan base here in Denver and packed the floor more than any other bands of the night. The party's last performance was done by 200 Million Years; a three piece electronic rock group incorporating digital tracks within their set. They were almost really good but they constantly attempted to do more than they needed to. 200 Million Years' music was drowned out with too many instruments and unnecessary reverb. Zale Hassler's sensual vocals played well over heavy ambient beats. All in all I enjoyed 200 Million Years but its smoke-filled entrance had me expecting more. When half the beats are premixed on a laptop, you should be moving the crowd a little more. Zeta Kaye's party was pretty much a blast. Perhaps not knowing who or what was coming next the show was that much more fun. All of the music was local and it was pretty damn good. Actually some of the best local music I've personally heard. I didn't mind the sexual offers and jokes from Otto von Cousticon either. http://www.ucdadvocate.com/noise/local-bands-celebrate-something-1.1958677
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From Westword Best of Denver, 2011
Best DIY Arts Promoters - John and Kim Baxter published: March 30, 2011Winner of Best Scene Enthusiast in 2008, John Baxter has long been a force to be reckoned with in the local music scene, the rare type of promoter whose commitment to the arts outweighs the unsavory connotations of the term "promoter." And in ZetaKaye House, where he's teamed up with wife Kim Baxter, he's really outdoing himself. A merger of Oscar Zeta Acosta (Hunter S. Thompson's attorney) and Ian MacKaye (Minor Threat and Fugazi frontman and founder of Dischord Records), the name pays tribute to legends of the do-it-yourself movement and does them justice. From movies (the Baxters have been working with the Mayan on an Orson Welles film fest) to music (besides promoting, managing and booking several local bands, they provide recording, lesson and practice space), from Denver to Brooklyn (client Tim Pourbaix stuck with them when he moved there), ZetaKaye House is doing it, and helping you do it, too. http://www.westword.com/bestof/2011/award/best-diy-arts-promoters-1770215/ Tune in to KGNU Community Radio, Denver/Boulder! 88.5fm/1390am and online at kgnu.org (on your fancy public radio smartphone app). Smash It Back: Classic Punk and Other Junk, Fridays from 11PM-12AM on KGNU (88.5FM/1390AM/http://kgnu.org/ or Public Radio Player App: http://www.publicradioplayer.org/) |
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