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Hey friends, it's time to celebrate. The Underground Music Showcase - one of the largest indie music festivals in the western United States--turns 10 this year! Last year's UMS was tremendous fun with 5,000 music-loving friends and four days of bands, art and community in Denver. (Check out the sweet UMS `09 video above.) And this year's 10th anniversary will be a party like no other.
Of course we'll bring the jams. The 10th Annual UMS will feature 250-300 local and national bands in 25-30 venues over four days on South Broadway. Our venues are walkable, and Denver is gorgeous in the summertime. Heck, we're O.K. with all the good folks (fans and media alike) who compare us to South by Southwest. We like to think we're doing something unique here in Denver, and it feels great to have an entire community behind us in Colorado and beyond.
Help us spread the word about this year's UMS on July 22-25, and make sure you follow us on Twitter @TheUMS. Tickets are now on sale right here, and thanks for helping make our 10th anniversary festival one to remember.
Submit your EPK via Sonicbids here, and our booking team will be in touch with you as we lock the festival schedule into place. This year will be the biggest festival in UMS history, and we're psyched to be consider your music for the 2010 showcase!
Posted by Ricardo Baca
The early birds are getting the best prices on UMS wristbands and badges — but wait, there’s more.
The first 100 orders will also get a free CD from last year’s festival — a compilation CD with 20 tracks from artists who played the 2009 UMS. It’s a great CD curated by The UMS’s founder, John Moore. It features Mark Mallman, The Knew, Natural Selection, KaiserCartel, The Heyday, Iuengliss, Smug Brothers, Dualistics, The Hollyfelds, Mike Marchant, the late Everything Absent or Distorted, The Pseudo-Dates, Elin Palmer, Red Light Driver and more.
So buy your wristbands and badges now, and get in on this offer while there are still CDs to give out!
Posted by Chris Vetrano
DENVER – The Underground Music Showcase, now known as The UMS, will celebrate its ten-year milestone in July 2010. The western region’s largest indie music festival will span four days, starting Thursday July 22nd and running through Sunday July 25th. This year’s event is bringing national, regional and local performers to a half-mile stretch of Denver’s vibrant South Broadway arts and shopping corridor. More than 300 bands, singer-songwriters, DJs and comedians will take the stages at 25-plus traditional and non-traditional venues including the Hi-Dive, 3 Kings Tavern, The Irish Rover, The Skylark Lounge, The Rule Gallery and The Walnut Room Pizzeria.
While the UMS ’10 won’t have any artist announcements for a few months yet, here are just a few of the artists who have played past UMS fests: Langhorne Slim, Megafaun, DeVotchKa, Bowerbirds, Ian Cooke, Matt Morris, El Ten Eleven, Nathaniel Rateliff and the Wheel, 16 Horsepower, KaiserCartel, Dressy Bessy, Houses and many others.
The UMS started out modestly in July 2000 with 300 people coming out to the Bluebird Theater with four bands taking the stage. After a number of years bouncing between the Bluebird and Gothic theaters, The UMS was moved to South Broadway in the Baker Historic District in the summer of 2006. The first year on Broadway started simple: 25 bands in five rock clubs, all within walking distance of each other. A couple of years later, The UMS had grown into a different beast entirely: About 4,000 fans in attendance to see 200 local artists in 15 venues across two days – and with ticket revenues going directly to the artists.... (Read More)
Posted by Ricardo Baca
Hello, Friends. Happy New Year!
We’re psyched to bring in 2010 with the news of our 10th annual UMS — the premiere indie music festival in the Rocky Mountain Region. Last year’s party with 5,000-plus of our friends was a delight, but this year we’re ensuring the party with more stages, more bands and more fun.
Mark your calendar: July 22-25, 2010. Tell your friends, and help us spread the word.
And also: Get your tickets now for a steal of a price — right here at theums.com. Prices for festival wristbands and badges will only go up from here on out, so get them while they’re cheap, and we look forward to sharing more information about the festival with you, out friends.
Best!
Team UMS
Posted by Ricardo Baca
We like Twitter. *So do you? *Weird!
Follow The UMS on Twitter at @TheUMS. It’s easy! And we’ll give you band insight and schedule updates and tasty tidbits!
Posted by Ricardo Baca
Our fifth subject in this year’s UMS Videos: Mike Marchant — the man who was voted most likely to be a rock star by his high school class. (They were right!)
