DeVotchKa
Your music collection isn’t big enough. I give you DeVotchKa.
Punk/indie rock/folk/gypsy out of Denver. They have a theremin, people. A THEREMIN. And a rockin’ Sousaphone with Christmas lights in the bell.
If you’ve seen Little Miss Sunshine, you’ve heard their music – they scored the movie. And they have a track on the soundtrack to Tim Burton’s Nightmare Revisited.
They put on an amazing live show. Amazing.
Splitlip Rayfield – come to the promised land
Wichita’s own Splitlip Rayfield – can I say enough about their charms? Probably not.
If the Ramones did bluegrass, with their frenetic energy and sometimes-indeceipherable lyrics – you might end up with Splitlip Rayfield. SLR is a quartet, sadly taken to a trio due to cancer’s grasp on Kirk, of fabulous energy and wonderful musicianship. Dude, they have a GAS TANK BASS – beat that!
I saw them many times in Wichita, and they don’t often tour, so I was quite lucky to catch them in Denver at the Cervantes in Jan 08. Excellent show, as always. It’s little reasons like this that I miss Wichita.
Catch a show filmed in Wichita at the Cotillion: Part 1
