The Fray are anything but the loose ends that their name suggests. Quite the opposite, they are a tight knit circuit that dotes heavily on their hometown of Denver. Personal and personable, they seem to live for the existence of putting America's Mile High City on the map.

Based on the bar’s color scheme, anyone braving a barely educated guestimation about the kind of clientele she was attempting to entice just might find the first word to escape their trap, “angels.” 

With elements of Miles Davis, Karl Denson, Galactic and Boulder's own Ordinary K, Fina Dupa, sounds like a hybrid form of Soulive and Sublime and routinely splices in teasers of the aforementioned bands in their live shows.

This place, I’m told, was the where a Colorado kid went to get as close to the New York club social scene that our fair mountain urban sprawl could get.

We ran Gore Canyon yesterday at 1090cfs on a four man Creature Craft. Most intense experience I've ever had and NO SWIMMING! The huge rapid named Toilet Bowl trapped us for 2 very exhilarating minutes...

...weave fresh and invocative melodies and harmonies with strong, passionate, introspective lyrics brimming with a southern twang and vulnerable emotion.