The World Reacts to Six Months to Live...
April 10 2008 - "Because you like your rock 'n' roll mixed with biting social commentary, Six Months to Live is here for you. ...Listen to some of the new tracks — especially the catchy 'Vampires Killed Our Parents' — at myspace.com/sixmonthstolive."
-- Ricardo Baca Denver Post Best Bets

April 2008 - " "With the release of their new album, A Better Place, Six Months to Live is gearing up for the inevitable onslaught of media attention and groupie love that will follow. Judging by their beautiful, playful singing and songwriting they had better start getting used to the bright flashing lights of fame."
--This Week In Denver
August 2007 - Once again, we're included on a compilation of local acts.  Adventure Records' Cuvée 4, features the outstanding
toe-tapper, How To Conquer Grief

Other acts on the CD include Deadbubbles, Jonathan Byerley,
and Breezy Porticos

Six Months to Live:
An Affordable Alternative to Psychotherapy

"With influences that range from the British Invasion to New Wave and modern Indie Rock, Six Months to Live forge... a modern psychosocial amalgam that includes harmonic surprises, time changes, and bridges that never return to the verse, but will instead launch into a crescendo coda. Their lyrics range from brilliant articulations of heartbreak to quirky hallucinogenic wordcraft. With dynamic arrangements that build tension over the whole affair, Six Months to Live often seem like they are balanced precariously over a pit of destruction. And yet, at the conclusion of a show, the audience inevitably has the wide-eyed look of those who have undergone an intensive--and remarkably affordable--session of group therapy."
--An especially astute paragraph by Enfuse Magazine April 2007

January 2007 - We're proud to have our song, Pop Quiz, included on the third compliation CD from Public Service Records.

Other acts on the CD include Nightshark, Pee Pee,
and A Dog, Paloma.

--from Westword, November 3, 2006
unc·tu·ous adj. : Characterized by affected, exaggerated, or insincere earnestness.



"Need something new-fangled to listen to?  Don't we all? 
Don't worry.  Six Months to Live is here to help."
--From Who's Making Noise? Colorado Music Buzz, October 2006

Locals Only: Six Months to Live
Mobilizing Denver's power-pop underground
(with further clarification provided by the band)

By Greg Glasgow, Camera Music Writer
June 16, 2006

Four Denver bands revive a "lost genre" of rock tonight at Denver's Three Kings Tavern, 60 S. Broadway — power-pop, the post-Beatles rock genre perfected in the '70s by artists such as Todd Rundgren, Big Star and the Raspberries.

Emphasizing ultra-hooky melodies, catchy guitar riffs and vocal harmonies, the form apparently is catching on again among bands such as Denver's Six Months to Live, which shares the stage at tonight's show with the Nancy Drews, the StartUps and the Knew.

Six Months to Live singer and guitarist Greg Hill, aka Soapy Argyle, describes power pop as "basically Beatles-derivative music that has stupider lyrics." [note: SMTL lyrics are not stupid ] He first applied the term to his band after hearing some classic power pop on the radio.

"We were doing our thing and we were actually looking for a genre to pigeonhole ourselves in, because you've got to do that, and I was listening to some Badfinger, and I was like, 'That's us!,'" says Hill, 33. [note: Hill does not know why he said this; it never happened and he does not care for Badfinger] "Badfinger, they have really stupid lyrics generally [note: replace “generally” with “always ”], but the music is redeemed just by the yumminess that it gives. But then you have bands like Big Star, who actually could get kind of profound. So it runs the gamut. I like that."

The bands on tonight's bill won't be the first Denver bands to resurrect the genre — Dressy Bessy, the Apples in Stereo and other Elephant 6 bands did the same thing in the '90s [note: not exactly the same thing. DB and AIS were less power, more pop. SMTL lack the bubblegum component of said bands, especially the former, for whom they opened at the Fox in July and managed to annoy the hell out of (according to the testimony of a third party who was hammered at the time and who therefore might have been exaggerating) by discussing testicles for half an hour backstage before the show], and some of them are still going strong. Still, Hill sees the typically upbeat, fun style [note: SMTL sings the saddest song ever written, I'm So Very Blue] as a good antidote to Denver's often too-cool-for-school indie-rock scene.

"It seems like in Denver there's an audience for everything. But they're ripe for the power pop," he says. "When we started Six Months to Live, the original drummer and I, we'd just seen the Shins play at the Gothic, and we liked that band but we saw them play and we were just complaining to each other about how boring they are on stage.

"The music's brilliant, but they [note: we are not certain who "they" refers to] just stood there, and we started bitching about how the indie music in Denver just doesn't have a lot of emotion and people stand on stage and there's a lot of — I don't want to sound like a mean guy [note: Hill wanted to sound like a mean guy], but it just seemed like they were really trying to look disinterested.

"The way they approach music and songs is they just have this sort of deliberate ignorance, which is great, that's what rock 'n' roll is in some ways, but we just want to put a little more effort into learning our instruments, we want to sing and sing in harmony — I think Denver is maybe ready for something more musically interesting and theatrically fun." [note: after receiving a severe beating, Hill agreed that all subsequent interviews must be conducted with full band present ]



March 2006 - Selective Hearing selected for comp CD
Taking their place amongst the finest acts in Denver, Boulder and Fort Collins, Six Months to Live, are featured on Cuvée 3, the latest compilation of Colorado's incomparable music fromAdventure Records.

Other acts on the CD include Devotchka, Hot IQs,
Matson Jones and Dario Rosa.

--from Westword July 7, 2005

     
       
         
           

Six Months to Live are Denver's premier purveyors of power pop.
Honey-coated harmony vocals; warm, melodic bass; tuneful drums;
snarling and flawless guitars; and finely-crafted tunes add up to an
alternately stunning and thrilling rock and roll experience.

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