The Scene
'The Underground Music Showcase (The UMS), Denver’s premier indie music festival, is is widely regarded as the best opportunity to explore and discover the local independent music scene. Known for bringing a compelling mix of local and national talent, in four glorious, good vibe filled days, The UMS is a non-profit event benefitting the Denver Post Community Foundation. This year’s festival showcases over 400 local and national performances, across 4 days, in an eclectic mix of venues.'
Festival Info
2013 Artist Lineup
- …And the Black Feathers
- 4H Royalty
- A Mouthful of Thunder
- A Shoreline Dream
- A. Tom Collins
- Abandin Pictures
- Accordion Crimes
- Achille Lauro
- Alex D.Wolf
- Allout Helter
- Amanda Hawkins
- Andy Palmer
- Andy Sydow
- Andy Thomas’ Dust Heart
- Anthony Ruptak
- Ark Life
- Aspen Hourglass
- Assuage
- Attic Attack
- babyshoe
- Bad Luck City
- Bare Bones / Blake Brown
- BattleSpawn
- Baywood
- Bear Antler
- Better Than Bacon
- Big J. Beats
- Black Amex
- Black Sleep Of Kali
- Bleached
- BLKHRTS
- Bo and the Locomotive
- Boldtype
- Bonnie and the Beard
- Bop Skizzum
- Born in the Flood
- boyhollow
- Brave Song Circle
- Brim Liski
- Broken Spirits
- Bronco Country
- Brothertiger
- Buffalo Rebellion
- Buildings
- CacheFlowe
- Caleb Slade
- Call Of The Void
- Caramel Carmela
- Casey James Prestwood & the Burning Angels
- Catch Lungs
- Catholic Girls
- CC/NN
- CCERULEANN
- Champagne Charlie
- Chella Negro & The Charm
- Chemistry Club
- Chimney Choir
- Chris Heckman (The Epilogues)
- Christopher Owen Nelson
- CLEAR/BLACK
- Codename: Carter
- Colfax Speed Queen
- Common Anomaly
- Confluence
- Cop Circles
- Cults
- Dan Tedesco
- Dead Pay Rent
- déCollage
- dirty few
- DJ Alf
- DJ Dave Wilkinson
- DJ Matthew Brown
- DJ Savior Breath
- DJ Shannon von Kelly
- DJ SL8R
- Doubters
- Dragondeer
- Dreamghost
- Dressy Bessy
- Dualistics
- dust:orbiter
- El Toro de la Muerte
- Eldren
- Elin Palmer + Band
- Emerald Siam
- Eolian
- Esme Patterson
- FaceMan
- FAT TONY
- Fiction is Fun
- Fingers of the Sun
- Flashbulb Fires
- Flashlights
- Floodplains
- Floorfreakers
- Fluorescent Phobia
- FLY4WIRD
- Force Publique
- Fox and the Bird
- Freedy Johnston
- Genetic Engines
- Go Star
- Goldenboy feat The New Familiar
- Gora Gora Orkestar
- Green River Vibe
- Gristle Gals Band
- Grown-A$$ Man Band
- Gun Street Ghost
- Halden Wofford & the Hi*Beams
- Hearts in Space
- Help Is On The Way
- Hindershot
- Hi-Strung
- Hockey
- HOLLAGRAMZ
- Hollow Talk
- Holly Lovell
- Hot Apostles
- I Sank Molly Brown
- I’m With Her
- Ian Cooke
- Idlewhile
- Il Cattivo
- imprintafter
- In The Whale
- Indigenous Robot
- Input
- Instant Empire
- Ivory Circle
- iZCALLi
- James Han
- Jason Cain
- Jeffrey Dallet
- Jeffrey Wentworth Stevens
- Jen Korte & The Loss
- Jenny Dalton
- Jess Williamson
- Jessica Sonner
- Jillian Grutta
- John Common and Blinding Flashes of Light
- Jon Boland
- Jon Wirtz’s Nuskool
- Joshua Novak
- Joshua Trinidad
- Joy Subtraction
- Jux County
- Keepers
- Kissing Party
- KITTY CRIMES
- Kyle James Hauser
- La Luna’s
- Land Lines
- Laurelin Kruse
- Lawsuit Models
- lightlooms
- lil’ thunder
- Lindsey O’Brien Band
- Lines
- Lionized
- Lord Huron
- LSD Bags
- LUST
- m00ns
- Magic Cyclops
- mancub
- Matt Hoffman
- Maudlin Magpie
- Mega Gem
- Megan Burtt & The Cure for Love
- Men In Burka
- MF Ruckus
- Midi-Mansion
- Mile High Soul Club
- Minor Note Orchestra
- Miss America be Wheary(born in the flood, the seven hats, sweet tooth meat tooth, the centennial, Nathaniel Rateliff)
- Mombi
- Monroe Monroe
- Mosey West
- Mountain and The Hound
- Mudhoney
- Munly & The Lupercalians
- Native Daughters
- Ned Garthe
- Need & Necessity
- Neptune’s Only Daughter
- New Ben Franklins
- Not the Arrow
- Oliver Bravado
- option4
- Orphans
- Paa Kow’s By All Means Band
- Pacific Pride
- Paer
- palace fires
- pale sun
- Pan Astral
- PANAL S.A. DE C.V.
- Paradise Ducks
- Party Hard
- Party Harder
- Patrick Dethlefs
- Petals of Spain
- Pete Stein
- pink hawks
- PLACES
- Porlolo
- Post Paradise
- PrettyMouth
- Prime Element
- Princess Music
- PRISMWAVES
- Pythian Whispers
- Queen cover band
- Rachael Pollard
- Rachel and the Kings
- Rainbowhead
- Raleigh
- Real Cosby
- Real Magic
- Red Devil Magic
- Red Fox Run
- RED STiNGER
- Reina Del Cid
- Reno Divorce
- Residual Kid
- Reviving Cecilia
- Rob Drabkin
- Rogue Vogue
- Roniit
- Ross Etherton & the Chariots of Judah
- Rossonian
- Rowboat
- Rubedo
- RUMTUM
- S U R V I V E
- Safe Boating is No Accident
- Samurai Buck
- Sarah & The Meanies
- Sarah Slaton
- Saturn Cowboys
- SAUNA
- ScaTTer GaTHer
- School Knights
- Science Partner
- SELKO
- SF1
- Shady Elders
- SHEL
- Shining Wires
- Sid Pink
- Small Black
- Snake Rattle Rattle Snake
- Somerset
- Something Underground
- Sour Boy, Bitter Girl
- South Of France
- Speedwolf
- Speedy Ortiz
- Spencer Foreman
- Spirit is the Spirit
- Stephanie Dorman
- Steve Law Band
- Stoic Dissention
- Strange Americans
- Strange Kids
- Sweet Tooth Meat Tooth
- Take To The Oars
- Talk All Night
- The Baltic
- The Belle Jar
- The Ben Hanna Band
- The Big Get Even
- The Blind Pets
- The Blue Rider
- The Burning Girls
- The Changing Colors
- The Constant Tourists
- The Deadwood Saints
- The Dendrites
- The Denver City Saltlicks
- The Dirty Femmes feat. Gordon Gano
- The Epilogues
- The Foot.
- The Fresh & Onlys
- The Greys Of Gold
- The Hate
- The Hollyfelds
- The Jekylls
- The Kinky Fingers
- The Knew
- The Loneliest Monk
- The Matildas
- The Maykit
- The Melismatics
- The Morning Clouds
- The Noise FM
- The Omens
- The Orbituaries
- The Outfit
- The Patti Fiasco
- The Photo Atlas
- The Pirate Signal
- the Raven and the Writing Desk
- The Reckless Nights
- The Repercussions
- The Royal
- The Seven Hats
- The Skeleton Show
- The Sound Collapse
- The Sound Junkies
- The Southern Renaissance
- The Ultra Gods
- The Wales
- The Whicker and Pine
- The Yawpers
- Thee Dang Dangs
- Tjutjuna
- Toddy Ivy
- Tommy Metz
- Total Ghost
- Treehouse Sanctum
- Trichome
- Twin Peaks
- Two Tone Wolf Pack
- Uncle Buck
- Vanish
- Varlet
- Vega Evaga
- Vibe Warrior
- Vices I Admire
- Violent Summer
- Vox De Ville
- VS
- Wandering Natives
- War Poets
- Warhawk
- We Are Not a Glum Lot
- We Like Monsters
- Weather Maps
- West Water Outlaws
- Wheelchair Sports Camp
- WhiteCatPink
- Wire Faces
- Wonderlic
- WUKI
- Yo Soy Sauce
- Zebroids