Underground Music Showcase is Denver's longest and largest music festival, featuring nearly 150 bands performing over three days on S. Broadway. Underground at the Showcase is hosted, engineered, mixed, and edited by Youth on Record participants, and features interviews with festival performers. This podcast offers listeners moments of levity, reflection, and inspiration through conversations about creative processes, gender equity, accessibility, relationship management, and Denver's dynamic and tight-knit community of artists. Underground at the Showcase is an official podcast of the Underground Music Showcase and a production of Youth on Record.

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S3: Jami Duffy

In this episode of the UMS Podcast, Rowan talks to Jami Duffy, executive director of YOR and the co-manager of UMS, about why young and underground artists need a “sea...

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Rowan Peterson interviews iies., an MC and frontman of his eponymous experimental-jazz-hip hop band. They discuss the band's beginnings, including meeting a bandmate w...

S3: Virgi Dart

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S3: Kid Astronaut

Rowan Peterson talks to Kid Astronaut about his long history in the Denver music scene and reinventing himself as a genre-bending solo artist. Hosted by Rowan Petersen...

S3: Jon Rubio (Los Mocochetes)

Clara Kay chats with Jon Rubio, a local MC and drummer for Los Mocochetes. They dive into the etymology of the band's name, writing politically charged music, and buil...

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