Forgotten Fridays: Awesome Color
Forgotten Fridays is an occasional feature here at If It’s Too Loud... where we go back and find the lost records of our glory days. We played these on our college radio shows, put them on countless mix tapes, and then forgot they existed. We go back and remind you of their existence, and help decide if they were any good. Back in 2006 or so, I was bored at home. I wished I had something to go out and do, but I didn't know of anything, which means I was just sitting around on MySpace. I stumbled across a post that Awesome Color was playing Ralph's in Worcester, about half an hour from where I was living at the time. I had never heard of them, but the ad for the show mentioned they were on Thurston Moore's Ecstatic Peace label. That was good enough for me, and I headed down to check them out. And what a band they turned out to be. First, all three members adopted "Awesome" as a stage last name. A lot more straightforward than other bands on Ecstatic Peace, Awesome ...