Starting the year on a high note

I'm finally catching up, now that February's almost over. So, despite losing our drummer last-minute, we carried on and had a fun and great show at the Mercury Cafe on December 10 and closed out 2022 with a bang. Not only that, but directly because of that show, we found a great new drummer! I think the day after, Zack messaged me after hearing about our opening from Manic Moon's drummer, Alex. To be honest, losing our (first) drummer left a...

Ending the year on a high note

As I mentioned in my previous post, which I published just an hour ago, Desert Atlas briefly played as a trio for the Lafayette Music Fest in October. A month later, we were invited to play at the venerable Mercury Cafe, a Denver institution, with Manic Moon and Chariots & Charioteers. The full indie spectrum! I was excited. It would be our first show in a Denver performance space as a full band—we couldn't have chosen a better venue....

Fall 2022 Recap

Ugh. Keeping a website up to date is hard work. Not really, but I haven't been doing it very well. But better late than never, so I'll try to put down for the record the stuff that happened in autumn of last year. First, though, one last thing from August: I played at the awesome Cannon Mine Coffee: October 8 was a busy day for Desert Atlas. That morning, we had the pleasure of playing a unique venue as part of the Lafayette Music Festival: The...