Read a book, get a free book bag - how easy is that?! Read Out of the Dust by Karen Hess or Children of the Dust Bowl: The True Story of the School at Weedpatch Camp by Jerry Stanley, and get your very own APPR book bag! Pick up an entry form at your middle school or local library from September 21 - October 21.
The 3rd annual Teen Battle of the Bands was a hit! Over 400 people attended the event in Acacia Park on Saturday, August 2nd to hear 5 local teen bands compete! The winning band, Uncharted, won studio time from Green Mountain Studios and a $100.00 gift certificate from Music Exchange! Also, special thanks to all of our sponsors including Nice Guy Sounds for providing sound, Pikes Peak Blues Community for providing a judge, Music Exchange and Green Mountain Studios for providing grand prizes and Front Range BBQ for providing gift cards for our judges!
Soak up the sun and check out some local talent, as our teen band finalists go head-to-head this Saturday! It’s happening at Acacia Park from noon to 4 p.m., so put Guitar Hero aside for an afternoon and come check out the real deal!
If you own a dog in this town, you’re in good company. Men’s Health magazine named Colorado Springs as being the best city for dogs, and Dog Fancy magazine has just named the Springs as Dog-Town, USA! You can read the full story at the Gazette, and you can submit photos of your own four-legged friend here.
If you haven’t shown the world your fanatical fretwork or fantastic footwork talents, you can hit the stage on Monday, July 7 at the Rockrimmon branch library. We’ll have the Guitar Hero competition and the Dance Dance Revolution competition starting at 6:00 pm, so don’t miss out!
Looking for true weirdness on a large scale? Check out the official News Of The Weird site. It’s updated regularly and (somewhat) archived, so there’s plenty of bizarre news to keep you occupied.
If you’re getting a little burned out with your current favorite bands, give TuneGlue a shot! Just enter the name of a band or artist, and it will come up with suggetions for related artists. You can keep clicking on the suggested artists, and expand your search until you find one you want to check out. Click on Releases, and you’ll get an album-by-album menu of the available titles by that particular artist. Plus, as you move through the menu, you get a list of songs for each album title.
has officially begun! Click on the link to check out the new web site, and be sure to drag your mouse over all the parts of the guitar. (We have a few hidden “extras” in there for you!) Read books, win free stuff - it’s pretty much that easy!
