In the 1980s and ’90s, Colorado Springs was home to a vibrant underground music scene — punk, post-punk, punk-jazz and even metal — much of which later languished in shoeboxes of cassette tapes, dusty flyers and old photographs.
Musician Danny Stewart, owner of Pete’s 9mm Rec Hords, spent months digging through those boxes to produce a third volume of Colorado Springs Underground. The series preserves songs from local bands that had played between 1983 and 1994.
“It is another deep dive into this sneaky and tricky Colorado Springs music scene,” Stewart said. “This is a lot of hidden gems of bands of come and gone.”…