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This month's Show and Tell Project focuses on songs from teenager-hood.
Lindsay Thorson is too cool to hang out with me.
Well, it's more that she's a myth to me, an urban legend, a girl who I must have seen at Rhinoceropolis or City O' City or any number of other places around town, but I'm not quite sure what she looks like. It's a typical Denver situation: we frequent the same establishments and know all the same people, yet we continue to elude each other.
I'm mildly obsessed with Lindsay though, ever since I wandered across her Denver Show and Tell Project on Myspace about six months ago. Through email we came together, and she gave me a little insight into how this awesome project came to be.
The Denver Show and Tell Project was conceived less than a year ago by Lindsay, a Denver musician who's desire to work with other musicians was frustrating her, as she didn't have a method to bring people together to make music. She had a band of her own, Susan Susan, but wanted to collaborate with the cool people she was coming across in the Denver music scene. And so the Denver Show and Tell Project was born.
Show and Tell is a mix-tape compilation of sorts Lindsay single-handedly puts together each month. She comes up with a theme (past months have included a current Top 20 cover song of choice, a song made only with body parts and no instruments, and a song made just for kids,) then posts this theme, along with a few simple rules/instructions on the Denver Show and Tell Myspace page.
Any band or person can participate, and bands may submit a song every month if they so choose. Once the songs are in, Lindsay puts out the homemade all-access compilation mix tapes via the Show and Tell Myspace profile for free download. She says the response has been overwhelmingly great, and has had over 40 bands/people participate in the last few months. Everyone from Denver staple Littles Paia to super-trippers BDRMPPL have dropped tracks for Lindsay’s creation, and each month sees new sounds coming her way.
Lindsay is only 19, and the work she puts into her musical baby from start to finish inspiringly ambitious and downright awesome. The sense of community she creates with her compilations is real and tangible; Lindsay encourages artists to collaborate on assignments with bands they may not be friends with or even familiar with, and is welcoming of new bands who want to participate.
But perhaps the most important part of this whole concept is the idea that fresh music is being made and put out into internet-space-- for free. What better way to check out a new band than to listen and download their music for in a free and legal way?
If you are interested in participating in this month’s Denver Show and Tell Project (the assignment is a cover song chosen from your teenage years), you may contact Lindsay at The Denver Show and Tell Myspace page. If you aren’t hip to this month’s assignment or don’t have time, just check back in December for a whole new project!
And one more note: While Lindsay's band Susan Susan has broken up, she has taken the Show and Tell Project to a band level with Dream Wagon & Friends. Anyone and everyone is invited to work on this music project with Lindsay at any time. If you're interested in working with her on this project, please visit the Dream Wagon Myspace!
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