In the spirit of these Social Singles and trying things new, we offer you May’s single “Playground”, which is an intimate, stripped down ballad penned and played by Cherie Rae on piano. We hope you find it a heartfelt and lovely way to kick off this summer season.

And as always, download….share…and enjoy!

The second big reason we are thrilled about this month’s offering is we brought on a very special guest artist to join us in the recording process. Eric Badger has lent us his incredible talent on the beautiful mandolin and we couldn’t be happier about it. So take a listen and as always…download, share and enjoy!

What are The Social Singles? Simply put, it is a collection of songs that we will be releasing online over the course of 2012.

In todays technologically advanced and socially connected world, the ability and ease of an artist to share their work with others is easier, quicker and less constrained by cost than it ever has been. Platforms like Facebook, Twitter, Bandcamp and Soundcloud (among others) have been transformed from mere information repositories to highly developed tools that artists now have to share their passion with the world.

So, as a challenge to ourselves, an offering to our wonderful supporters and in general a really fun project; Days of Rae will be writing, recording and releasing one single each month throughout 2012. We will be distributing each song completely free of charge on as many social platforms as we can think of. Thusly, throughout the year you will have these songs (dubbed “The Social Singles) available to you to download, share, repost, love, hate, praise, criticize or however else you wish to consume.

With this project, we aim to make each release unique. The production of each song will range from duo compositions recorded in songwriter Cherie Rae Cobbs’ home studio, to full band arrangements recorded and produced interstately. We also hope to feature guest musicians on select songs throughout the year.

As always, we thank you for listening as we look forward to a fun and productive year.

-Days of Rae

For more info about us and frequent updates on The Social Singles visit us at our website (www.daysofrae.com) and on Facebook (www.facebook.com/daysofrae)

Cherie Rae Cobbs – Vocals
Shon Cobbs – Bass
Clint Trotter – Drums, bells, backup vocals
Ian Carleton – Keyboard, Guitar, Organ
Eric Badger – Mandolin

The Social Singles:

1. Not A Word (Jan 2012)
-written and performed by Cherie Rae and Shon Cobbs

2. Make It Soon (Feb 2012)
-written and performed by Cherie Rae Cobbs, Shon Cobbs, Ian Carleton and Clint Trotter

3. Don’t Call Me In (Mar 2012)
-written and performed by Cherie Rae and Shon Cobbs

4. Betajar (Apr 2012)
-written and performed by Cherie Rae Cobbs, Shon Cobbs, Ian Carleton, Clint Trotter and Eric Badger

5. Playground (May 2012)
-written and performed by Cherie Rae Cobbs

Click here to visit our Bandcamp page where you can download these singles free of charge!

April’s single is a fun change of pace for us. First of all, we not only wrote the song with the full band across multiple states via email, dropbox and soundcloud. But we also challenged ourselves by completely flipping our writing process upside down. Every songwriter/band has a typical way and order to which they write. We took that order and spun it a complete 180. The result was…we feel…refreshing. A change from our norm but yet not a departure from out sound.

The second big reason we are thrilled about this month’s offering is we brought on a very special guest artist to join us in the recording process. Eric Badger has lent us his incredible talent on the beautiful mandolin and we couldn’t be happier about it. So take a listen and as always…download, share and enjoy!

What are The Social Singles? Simply put, it is a collection of songs that we will be releasing online over the course of 2012.

In todays technologically advanced and socially connected world, the ability and ease of an artist to share their work with others is easier, quicker and less constrained by cost than it ever has been. Platforms like Facebook, Twitter, Bandcamp and Soundcloud (among others) have been transformed from mere information repositories to highly developed tools that artists now have to share their passion with the world.

So, as a challenge to ourselves, an offering to our wonderful supporters and in general a really fun project; Days of Rae will be writing, recording and releasing one single each month throughout 2012. We will be distributing each song completely free of charge on as many social platforms as we can think of. Thusly, throughout the year you will have these songs (dubbed “The Social Singles) available to you to download, share, repost, love, hate, praise, criticize or however else you wish to consume.

With this project, we aim to make each release unique. The production of each song will range from duo compositions recorded in songwriter Cherie Rae Cobbs’ home studio, to full band arrangements recorded and produced interstately. We also hope to feature guest musicians on select songs throughout the year.

As always, we thank you for listening as we look forward to a fun and productive year.

-Days of Rae

For more info about us and frequent updates on The Social Singles visit us at our website (www.daysofrae.com) and on Facebook (www.facebook.com/daysofrae)

Cherie Rae Cobbs – Vocals
Shon Cobbs – Bass
Clint Trotter – Drums, bells, backup vocals
Ian Carleton – Keyboard, Guitar, Organ
Eric Badger – Mandolin

The Social Singles:

1. Not A Word (Jan 2012)
-written and performed by Cherie Rae and Shon Cobbs

2. Make It Soon (Feb 2012)
-written and performed by Cherie Rae Cobbs, Shon Cobbs, Ian Carleton and Clint Trotter

3. Don’t Call Me In (Mar 2012)
-written and performed by Cherie Rae and Shon Cobbs

4. Betajar (Apr 2012)
-written and performed by Cherie Rae Cobbs, Shon Cobbs, Ian Carleton, Clint Trotter and Eric Badger

Click here to visit our Bandcamp page where you can download these singles free of charge!

http://illegalpetes.com/blog/community/illegal-petes-announces-smother-autism-campaign-in-support-of-autism-awareness-month-joshua-school/

You can help us help the Joshua School by smothering your burrito, through donations, and by attending a few events at our DU location.

During the entire month of April (Autism Awareness Month), Illegal Pete’s will be working to extinguish the challenges of Autism Spectrum Disorder by raising funds for The Joshua School through the Smother Autism Program. Illegal Pete’s will be donating $1 to The Joshua School every time a customer smothers their burrito and will also give customers an opportunity to donate $1 in exchange for a leaf that helps grow the abilities of all and can be signed and displayed in stores. Our mobile ordering app, Pete’s Mobile, will give customers the chance to “round up” your order as a straight donation.

The Illegal Pete’s DU location will be hosting two events to support the program. A Smother Autism Party takes place on Saturday, April 14th from 8pm to close. Customers can donate $15 in return for all you can drink Coors and Coors Light, or donate $25 for all you can drink Odell’s and Coors. Local bands, the music of Robert Harrison, and Days of Rae, will perform at the event. On Thursday, April 26th, local artist, The Epilogues will be playing a benefit concert at this location.

Supporting sponsors of these events include Niman Ranch, Coors, Odell’s, and Splick It.

http://illegalpetes.com/blog/community/illegal-petes-announces-smother-autism-campaign-in-support-of-autism-awareness-month-joshua-school/

March’s single is a heartfelt song originally written in 2011. Exploring the sadness of having to leave your loved ones behind as life moves you forward, it celebrates the very universal themes of friendship, family, fear and sorrow. Hope you enjoy.

What are The Social Singles? Simply put, it is a collection of songs that we will be releasing online over the course of 2012.

In todays technologically advanced and socially connected world, the ability and ease of an artist to share their work with others is easier, quicker and less constrained by cost than it ever has been. Platforms like Facebook, Twitter, Bandcamp and Soundcloud (among others) have been transformed from mere information repositories to highly developed tools that artists now have to share their passion with the world.

So, as a challenge to ourselves, an offering to our wonderful supporters and in general a really fun project; Days of Rae will be writing, recording and releasing one single each month throughout 2012. We will be distributing each song completely free of charge on as many social platforms as we can think of. Thusly, throughout the year you will have these songs (dubbed “The Social Singles) available to you to download, share, repost, love, hate, praise, criticize or however else you wish to consume.

With this project, we aim to make each release unique. The production of each song will range from duo compositions recorded in songwriter Cherie Rae Cobbs’ home studio, to full band arrangements recorded and produced interstately. We also hope to feature guest musicians on select songs throughout the year.

As always, we thank you for listening as we look forward to a fun and productive year.

-Days of Rae

The Social Singles:

1. Not A Word (Jan 2012)
-written and performed by Cherie Rae and Shon Cobbs

2. Make It Soon (Feb 2012)
-written and performed by Cherie Rae Cobbs, Shon Cobbs, Ian Carleton and Clint Trotter

3. Don’t Call Me In (Mar 2012)
-written and performed by Cherie Rae and Shon Cobbs

Click here to visit our Bandcamp page where you can download these singles free of charge!

We are excited to announce that we will be opening up for the very talented band “Sons of Fathers” from Austin Tx, at the Larimer Lounge.  The Larimer is one of the best venues in the Denver area and this will be our first time to rock it’s stage.  We are very much looking forward to it!

___________________________________________________________________________

Monday, March 19th

8pm

Sons of Fathers

Lizzie Huffman

Days of Rae

http://larimerlounge.com/event_details.cfm?BlogId=733

We are playing a new venue this Friday and would love to have your support!  Paris on the Platte is a gorgeous cafe/bar located in one of the coolest DT Denver neighborhoods.

Consider an evening out on Friday and enjoy some great food, drink and music.

We would love to see you there!

Paris on the Platte

http://www.parisontheplattecafeandbar.com/home/

Paris On The Platte Cafe & Bar
1553 Platte Street
Denver, CO 80202

[ map ]

We will be playing from 9pm to about Midnight.  Stop by anytime!

What are The Social Singles? Simply put, it is a collection of songs that we will be releasing online over the course of 2012.

In todays technologically advanced and socially connected world, the ability and ease of an artist to share their work with others is easier, quicker and less constrained by cost than it ever has been. Platforms like Facebook, Twitter, Bandcamp and Soundcloud (among others) have been transformed from mere information repositories to highly developed tools that artists now have to share their passion with the world.

So, as a challenge to ourselves, an offering to our wonderful supporters and in general a really fun project; Days of Rae will be writing, recording and releasing one single each month throughout 2012. We will be distributing each song completely free of charge on as many social platforms as we can think of. Thusly, throughout the year you will have these songs (dubbed “The Social Singles) available to you to download, share, repost, love, hate, praise, criticize or however else you wish to consume.

With this project, we aim to make each release unique. The production of each song will range from duo compositions recorded in songwriter Cherie Rae Cobbs’ home studio, to full band arrangements recorded and produced interstately. We also hope to feature guest musicians on select songs throughout the year.

As always, we thank you for listening as we look forward to a fun and productive year.

-Days of Rae

The Social Singles:

1. Not A Word (Jan 2012)
-written and performed by Cherie Rae and Shon Cobbs

2. Make It Soon (Feb 2012)
-written and performed by Cherie Rae Cobbs, Shon Cobbs, Ian Carleton and Clint Trotter

Click here to visit our Bandcamp page where you can download these singles free of charge!

Join us at Illegal Pete’s (Downtown Denver) on Feb 11th for a very special full band show.  Our lovely bandmates will be flying in from MN to join us on stage for what is sure to be a fun night!

Days of Rae duo moves to Denver with free music under their belts

If you go
What: Days of Rae
When: 9 p.m. Saturday
Where: The Laughing Goat Coffeehouse, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628
Cost: free
thelaughinggoat.com

In the ongoing battle between the internet and the record industry, the internet has an ally in husband-and-wife duo and recent Denver transplants Days of Rae.

Shon and Cherie Rae Cobbs, offered their last two indie folk albums, 2010′sQuiet Profanityand 2011′sNaked Mache, with a pay-what-you-want (even $0) price tag through Bandcamp. They’re also both available for streaming.

“Everything being on Spotify and stuff, you can listen to everything for free, pretty much. So we’re just going that route, hoping that people will want to listen and think ‘I’ll pay for this,’” Cherie said. “We haven’t ever discussed label stuff. That’s a whole mystery to me. We’re just homegrown people. We wanna make music and put it out and hope people like it.”

Since they’ve only been in Denver for five months, they’re working on building a new audience and taking that free music approach a step further. Rather than pay to record a new album, they’ll use their own equipment to steadily release songs online under the titled “The Social Singles.” The first, “Not A Word,” was released Sunday, and they plan to debut a new track on the 15th of each month.

“Basically, you know, I just keep writing songs all the time, and how many outlets do you have for them?” Cherie said. “Obviously we’re not in it for the money. We just want it to be heard and hear what people think. I’ve been gathering up all these songs in the past year and they’re just sitting there. You can play them live, but you want to get them down.”

As if being new to a big city weren’t enough of a challenge, Shon and Cherie are adjusting to leaving behind their keyboard player and drummer. They moved from Minnesota to Denver because of Shon’s day job doing video engineering for Comcast, but other than coming out for two gigs, the rest of the band hasn’t followed.

“Being new to town, you have zero draw, of course,” Cherie said. “And out in Minnesota we played with two other guys. Obviously they’ve yet to move out here, so Shon and I are playing on our own.”

They haven’t given up hope, though. All four of them will play a gig in Denver together in February, and they’re planning to record together long distance. Keyboardist Ian Carleton and drummer Clint Trotter both have recording studios in their homes, so they’ll work from there and put the files in a drop box. From there, the Cobbs can add their own parts and mix the tracks.

Meanwhile, Days of Rae has tons of gigs coming up in the area. Cherie said she’s a bit nervous to perform live in their “stripped-down” state, and was hoping for short sets, but the duo’s shows will run from 1.5 to three hours.

Welcome to Colorado, Days of Rae.

Read more:http://www.coloradodaily.com/music-news/ci_19762156#ixzz1k7CG7ovA
Coloradodaily.com

What are The Social Singles? Simply put, it is a collection of songs that we will be releasing online over the course of 2012.

In todays technologically advanced and socially connected world, the ability and ease of an artist to share their work with others is easier, quicker and less constrained by cost than it ever has been. Platforms like Facebook, Twitter, Bandcamp and Soundcloud (among others) have been transformed from mere information repositories to highly developed tools that artists now have to share their passion with the world.

So, as a challenge to ourselves, an offering to our wonderful supporters and in general a really fun project; Days of Rae will be writing, recording and releasing one single each month throughout 2012. We will be distributing each song completely free of charge on as many social platforms as we can think of. Thusly, throughout the year you will have these songs (dubbed “The Social Singles) available to you to download, share, repost, love, hate, praise, criticize or however else you wish to consume.

With this project, we aim to make each release unique. The production of each song will range from duo compositions recorded in songwriter Cherie Rae Cobbs’ home studio, to full band arrangements recorded and produced interstately. We also hope to feature guest musicians on select songs throughout the year.

As always, we thank you for listening as we look forward to a fun and productive year.

-Days of Rae

The Social Singles:

1. Not A Word
-written and performed by Cherie Rae and Shon Cobbs

Click here to visit our Bandcamp page where you can download this single free of charge!

http://www.thewalnutroom.com/artists/detail/days-of-rae

Weekly in January!

SAT, Jan 7th, SAT JAN 14TH, FRI JAN 20TH AND SAT JAN 21ST

@ THE WALNUT ROOM PIZZERIA

2 Broadway Ave, Denver CO

6:30 PM | Free Show | All Ages

http://thelaughinggoat.com/index.html

SAT, JAN, 21ST, 2012

with Sarah Peacock

@ The Laughing Goat Coffeehouse

1709 Pearl Street
Boulder, Colorado 80302

8:00 PM | Free Show | All Ages

http://denverbeerco.com

Sun, December 11th, 2011

@ Denver Beer Co

1695 Platte St
Denver, CO 80202

2-6pm PM | Free Show

Autumn leaves have lost their luster, careworn and brittle they start to fall while you’re a thousand miles from the place you call home. At the onset of the sentimental season a little homesick ode is written to pass some time.

In search of wistful, sleepy Sunday sound, we offer up this new song–Inside Your Head–and hope that you enjoy.

Here’s another new song.  A lovely stripped down acoustic arrangement.  Enjoy!

Also available on Bandcamp!

http://daysofrae.bandcamp.com/releases

What do you do when your band is split in two with a 1000 mile divide? You continue to write and record with them of course!

Here is a brand new track, written in one night together and then recorded separately in Minneapolis MN, Cottage Grove MN and of course Denver CO.

Download. Share. Enjoy.

Also on Bandcamp! http://daysofrae.bandcamp.com/releases

Hey all, we just booked our first CO show and super excited for it!  We are going to be doing a nice long set Thursday night, September 29th at Chippers Lanes in Fort Collins.  Music starts around 10pm, $2 cover with first game free.  $2 games, $2drafts and $1 PBR’s, slices and tacos.  We can’t wait…this relocation has kept us from the stage for far too long!  If you are free that night, or know anyone in the area, we would love to see you there.

Our friends over at Lunch of Champions had a few nice words about the new album. Check it out and while you’re at it…add their blog to your reader/rss feed!

http://lunchofchampions.com/2011/08/days-of-rae-naked-mache/

A hot off the press new one from Cherie. See…even when we are inactive…we are not inactive

We are very excited to be taking part in this great and fun event! Days of Rae are one of a handful of MN artists offering up their tunes for use in the 2011 Minneapolis 48 Hour Film Project. If your not familiar with this cool annual event, read all about it here:

http://www.48hourfilm.com/minneapolis/

And make sure to attend either the premere screenings between 6/14-6/16 or the “Best of” screening on 6/23.  All screenings are held at the awesome Riverview Theater in Minneapolis.  And who knows, maybe you’ll even catch some DOR goodness in a few of the flicks. 

Cherie’s first song she ever wrote? Yes indeed. An ode to the great men and women of the north.

Another hot fresh newbie from CRC called “Make it Soon”. Looks like we might have the beginnings of a 2012 album after all

Here’s a lovely summertime jingle. Written while while vacationing on a hot summer’s night in Canada. This one is actually a DOR classic….well…a Cherie classic anyway.

Naked Mâché is now up and available on Bandcamp!

http://daysofrae.bandcamp.com

From here you can stream Days of Rae’s latest album, Naked Mâché (as well as Quiet Profanity) AND you can download both albums for whatever price  you want….and yes…that means even free.  :)

So go ahead…click the link, turn up the volume and enjoy!

And please…forward to anyone you know who you think might enjoy a tune or two!  Help spread the word!

A heartfelt ode to friends and saying goodbye. Enjoy this brand new one from Cherie.

Just got word that 90.3/106.7 KFAI fm will be rebroadcasting a previous on air performance of ours.  I’m not sure if it will be a snippet from our marathon 2 hour session last summer or from our more recent in studio chat and Naked Mache preview with acoustic performance by Cherie.

Either way…tune in tonight for ‘Live from Studio Five’ at 11pm ET tonight (03/16/11) for some DOR goodness.

You can listen either on the airwaves at 90.3 or 106.7 fm or streaming online at www.kfai.org

And while you’re there…don’t forget to maybe click on that pledge button on the top right there!  KFAI has been truly great to the local music scene and community in general and needs your support.  Any little bit helps.

That’s right.  Naked Mâché is featured in one of the fine listening stations at Twist and Shout Records in Denver.  So if you are rockin it in the Mile High city; come on down and give it a listen…and then of course…give it a buy!

By request…Cherie rockin some New Order.

You know it!  Now available at Twist and Shout Records on East Colfax in Denver, CO.  Come welcome the sounds of DOR to the mountains by stopping by and purchasing your copy today!

Naked Mâché is now available at Electric Fetus and all three Cheapo stores in MN. Also, it is featured in the “What’s New” listening station at the Cheapo stores! Help us by going and picking up a copy. Even if you already got your freebie at the show. Go buy one for a friend. The more copies we sell, the more copies they want and the longer we stay in rotation

Make sure to tune in to 90.3 or 106.7fm on Wednesday, Feb 2nd at 11pm.  We will be sitting down to chat with the wonderful people over at ‘Live From Studio 5′ about our new album and upcoming release show.  We will also preview one more song from the new album!  So be sure to stay up and tune in.

Remember: 02/02/11 @ 11pm on 90.3 or 106.7 fm or streaming live on www.kfai.org.