Zach Heckendorf is a 19 year old singer-songwriter from Denver. His video for “All The Right Places” was shot all over Colorado and most notably, at Mile High Stadium, home to the Denver Mannings Broncos. The overachieving teenager has opening gigs with Mat Kearney, Michael Franti and Rodrigo y Gabriela. I’m just going to throw this out there that the Colorado Board of Tourism should go ahead and give the green light to get this video commissioned for the next flurry of promo spots to showcase the state. Photo via the artist. PS, don’t hate because he went to Creek.
The Lumineers serenade Craig Ferguson
I was a slow convert from Craig Kilborn to Craig Ferguson when the torch was passed many years ago. recently made their national Television debut performing their radio hit “Ho Hey” on Ferguson’s show. Watch the performance by going to the 6:03 mark of the video below. The Lumineers are about to end their current tour in support of their self-titled debut here in Denver, with one hitch. The homecoming show proved to be such a hit, a second date was added at the Bluebird. Get tickets while their hot (buy them ). VH1 just the trio one of the bands to watch for 2012 and iTunes has put “Ho Hey” as the Indie Spotlight Free Download of the week right over .
Hot 107.1 is now Denver’s dance station
Denver, consider yourself on notice. There is no reason for you to not shake your collective cans now with the format change to a dance station playing everything from local favorite to veteran Paul Oakenfold. Weekends will feature non-commercial sets to ensure that your body won’t stop shaking its proverbial tail feather. Side note: what’s the over/under that the station lasts longer than six months?
ManCub, dogs
Check out the video to latest banger, “Science,” taken off of the duo’s future EP, “Business Dogs,” to be released May 25 with a blow-out party at the . The EP couldn’t come at a better time because the snippet sounds like a summer jam for those afternoon barbeques.
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Julio Enriquez is a Denver writer and photographer, editor of the blog and a regular contributor to Reverb.
