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Metalachi – February 19th – Marquis Theatre

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Mexican Mariachi music is made to move you. It is direct, driving, and designed to instill emotion. Most songs are about machismo, love, betrayal, death, politics, and revolutionary heroes. All of this was perfect for a group that came out of L.A. and would become known as the world’s first and only Heavy Metal Mariachi band. On Friday, Soda Jerk presented an all ages showing of Metalachi, the world’s first and only heavy metal mariachi band.

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New Sounds of Old: A Glimpse of Dragondeer’s “Weird Space”

Estimated read time 10 min read

Eric Halborg is certainly no stranger to the Denver music scene. For the past ten plus years his band The Swayback has been defying expectations and genre classifications. When an opportunity arose for Halborg to do something different he dove into the new project that would become Dragondeer with the same eclectic zeal that The Swayback has championed for years. From a basement on Broadway to the stages of Red Rocks and South By Southwest, in two years the Blues group has exploded in popularity.