Video: Biography: Fall From Silence entered the music scene in 2015 with an irrepressible sound, confounding all preconceptions and redefining all expectations of metal. We are a mix of individuals from all over the U.S. who came together near the end of 2014 to deliver Colorado Springs some of the sickest rock it has seen in some time. The band consists of lead singer Robert Peeters, guitarist Russell Pousson, guitarist
Fifty Shades of Green, a book Sandra Knauf published last summer, is a feminist/gardener response to that other book. It’s a wonderfully entertaining anthology of twelve naughty gardening stories with strong female protagonists. The talented authors of these tales hail from across the U.S. and Britain—and most are genuine hands-in-the-dirt gardeners. US Represented caught up with Sandra to find out what inspired Fifty Shades of Green and how the book took
Video: Biography: Smith House is Barrett Muth and Zach Brown, two Colorado artists who for the past three years have been allowing their love of music to foster community and conversation in and around Colorado Springs. Their folk style is the natural conjunction of classical training and a love of all things organic, influenced by the tenets of authentic community spurred and cultivated by the downtown CS scene. Smith House
Video: Biography: The Verdict, with founders Mike Louis (lead guitar/vocals), Ken Bailey (drums/vocals), and Darcy Martineau (bass), got its start in 1989. It its early years, The Verdict played many well-known local clubs, entertaining club-goers with a variety of rock standards and original tunes. In 1994, they welcomed keyboardist Doug Hall, and the band quickly expanded its repertoire to include a much wider variety of songs and genres. As a
Hello USR readers, We’re in the process of adding a music section to our site. Our intention is to support talented performers who deserve more attention and a broader audience. The section will include videos, interviews, contact information, performance dates, biographies, pictures, sound bytes, ratings scales, and comment sections. To a great extent, readers will take ownership of this area since they’re the ones with opinions and questions that
Hi USR readers, Thank you for spending another lively week with us. Several, not all, of our writings focused on holiday themes in keeping with the season. In Lindsay Deen’s “Dave Gardner: Interview with an Activist, Part II,” Gardner notes, “You know, if you buy something at Wal-Mart, that dollar is sucked out of town straight to Bentonville, Arkansas. A little bit of that dollar goes halfway around the world
