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 .
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 () into an interactive, multimedia website (), 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 every Friday, and this is your invitation to come listen, watch and download at your leisure. Check us out at , 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 Cursive frontman) Tim Kasher
• 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
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