BIG WEEKEND FOR BLANK-TAPE!

THE JACK TRADES OPEN FOR A LEGEND OF THE MISSISSIPPI BLUES!

KRCC presents T-Model Ford with the Jack Trades
Location: The Triple Nickel Tavern, Colorado Springs, CO

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Tickets $10 for KRCC members at the KRCC Studios - 912 N. Weber, or by calling 719-473-4801. General public tickets on sale for $15 at the LeechPit, the Triple Nickel Tavern, and on line at www.BrownPaperTickets.com $20 day of show.

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www.blanktaperecords.org


The Haunted Windchimes will travel south this weekend to perform at The KTAO Solar Center in Taos New Mexico. The show will take place at 7pm this Saturday the 18th of September.

Check out the KTAO website for more info

And don't forget to tune in to KTAO tomorrow morning at 8:30am for an interview with the Windchimes' Inaiah Lujan. 101.9 if you are in the KTAO listening area. Or follow this link to stream the show on-line.

www.hauntedwindchimes.com
www.blanktaperecords.org

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And right around the corner Chicago's Pillars and Tongues return to Colorful Colorado for a show at Modbo in Colorado Springs with Blank-Tapers The Changing Colors! Don't miss this one.

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BLANK-TAPE SHOWCASE 2009

BLANK-TAPE RECORDS SHOWCASE! With special guests IT'S TRUE from Omaha Nebraska! This show is going to be a night to remember. If you did not catch IT'S TRUE at the Downtown Bar the last time they came through, you will not want to miss this! + Local Favorites AP/SUB, The Haunted Windchimes and The Jack Trades will make the night extra special, offering you a night of completely diverse and eclectic music and give you an idea of what Blank-Tape Records is all about! From Blues/Rock to Progressive/Punk, Folk/Americana to Indy/Pop Goodness this show will give it all!

For more information on all Blank-Tape Artists Check out:
blanktaperecords.org

Also:
myspace.com/adamitstrue
myspace.com/apoorsubstitute
myspace.com/thejacktrades
myspace.com/thehauntedwindchimes

Haunted Windchimes & The Jack Trades KRCC Open House (4-26-09)

Photos By: Joseph Scala & The Haunted Windchimes
Taken At: KRCC Studios, Colorado Springs CO (4-26-09)

2 Blank-Tape Artists Make Indy Insider's Top 9

Bring the noise

Nine area acts to keep your eye on

by Bill Forman

Despite what some may think, there's more to local music than emo singers who meticulously iron their hair before applying their makeup, and burly cover bands who believe that music died with either Jerry Garcia or the Eagles. (Oh wait, they're not dead yet.) In truth, there are a good number of artists here in town who play original music that's actually original. So here's a handful to get you started.

Black Pegasus (myspace.com/blackpegasus). Although he tours extensively, Robert Houston II — aka Black P, the Black Mexican, et al — has yet to put Colorado rap on the national map, but it's not for lack of talent or trying. A military brat and battle-rap champ, he delivers down-to-earth rhymes that offer a reality-based respite from the gangsta lien that still encumbers so much of mainstream hip-hop.

El Toro de la Muerte (bullofdeath.com). El Toro may have won Nosh's 2008 "Tejon, Tunes and Tapas" competition, but it's still as far from your typical battle of the bands winner as you can get. Imagine if Jane's Addiction's Perry Farrell could sing better and pulled together a rock band full of art students and ex-carnies, and you're part of the way there.

Grass It Up (grassitup.com). Even though the Indy's David Jeffrey is in the band, Grass It Up is pretty much Colorado Springs' most popular bluegrass group. It's also been known to do a cover of "Gin and Juice," which is just weird.

Haunted Windchimes (myspace.com/thehauntedwindchimes). With gorgeous harmonies, striking originals and an encyclopedic knowledge of music older than the three of them combined, Haunted Windchimes are Pueblo's finest export. Plus, they play tons of shows up this way, so you've got no excuse.

Hayman Fire (myspace.com/thehaymanfire). Loud-fast rules, as does loud-slow, when metalcore merchants Hayman Fire take the stage. Heads bang, guitars shred, blood flows. (OK, maybe no blood.) Their vocals seem to be slipping further into the sub-guttural range, but they can still crank out the rawk anthems.

Jack Trades (myspace.com/thejacktrades). White Stripes instrumentation in service of a rockin', stompin', hollerin' good time. Mike Clark and Todd Bruington are a little bit country, a little bit punk and a whole helluva lotta blues.

John-Alex Mason (johnalexmason.com). Whether playing with a band or doing his one-man-drum-and-cigar-box-guitar gigs, you would be hard-pressed to find a better down-home blues player in the Springs.

Nicotine Fits (myspace.com/thenicotinefits). At Nicotine Fits shows, you'll likely see Stooges and MC5 T-shirts onstage and in the crowd, which is pretty much all you need to know. Except for the fact that they do it exceptionally well.

Sanguine Addiction (sanguineaddiction.com). Today's SAT question: Sacramento is to the Deftones as Colorado Springs is to: (a) George Whitesell & His All Stars, (b) the Pinecreek Shitkickers or (c) Sanguine Addiction. If you answered c, you are correct. You may even be one of the fans who voted them Best Local Original Band in our last two readers' polls. In any event, do not turn this page until you are told to do so ...

— bill@csindy.com

Jack Trades Colorado Springs Independent Article!

Local musicians abandon popular genres in search of muddier waters

by Bill Forman

Watching Jack Trades frontman Mike Clark onstage, you might never imagine that he's been playing music for just a few years. A landscape surveyor by trade, he came down with his own case of the blues three years ago during a road trip to Seattle with a guitarist friend.

"He showed me a few things, and I was pretty much hooked after that," says Clark. "Along the way, I bought a harmonica from a little thrift store and started playing blues songs or trying to play blues songs and just kind of stuck with it."

A year later, he hooked up with drummer Todd Bruington, who, unlike Clark, had been playing since his parents bought him a junior drum kit when he was 8. Clark first saw Bruington playing with the Corporate Ninjas "they were like a metal-meets-reggae funk band" and the duo has been gigging for the last two years. They're anything but mellow, attacking the blues with an enthusiasm that's as contagious as it is convincing. Neighborhood complaints have forced them to go acoustic at a few gigs, but the louder electric shows are definitely the Jack Trades' strong suit.

"Some of the songs on our albums are straightforward old-school 12-bar blues," says Clark, "and then we have some that are real aggressive electric stuff. The White Stripes are one of my favorite bands, and so are the Black Keys. When I started listening to that stuff, I realized there's just a huge following for that kind of thing."

bill@csindy.com

The Jack Trades make Blank-Tape Debuit

ORIGINALLY POSTED: January 17, 2009

BLANK-TAPE WELCOMES OUR NEWEST EDITION "THE JACK TRADES"

The Jack Trades make their Blank-Tape Records debut with their new album "Whiskey Well." This album effortlessly moves you through 17 tracks of pure un-cut Country/Blues that will be stuck in your head and your cd player for days! A Bonus track includes an appearance by Blank-Tape's own Haunted Windchimes! Don't miss your chance to get a copy of this amazing disc limited to only 1000 copies.