The Moss @ Bluebird Theater

The Moss’s performance at Bluebird Theater on March 23, 2024 in Denver, CO was nothing short of electric. With support from Michael Marcagi, fans showed up for an amazing night.

Michael Marcagi

The leader of alt-rock band the Heavy Hours, Michael Marcagi stepped out on his own with the EP American Romance. Folky originals like the breakout hit “Scared to Start” have met with viral success.

A native of Cincinnati, Ohio, Marcagi formed the band that would become the Heavy Hours in high school. They had a novelty hit with a full-band cover of Dua Lipa’s “Don’t Start Now” in 2021. Debut EP Wildfire proved they were a serious act to watch. Due to tracks like “Don’t Walk Away” and “Desperate Days,” released in 2023. Marcagi elected to go solo later that year, working on a more subdued and intimate set of folk-rock tunes. When he played a snippet of an unfinished song, “Scared to Start,” in a video on TikTok. This inspired a groundswell of fans sharing the song and even recording versions of their own. After the finished version made pop chart appearances in America, Canada, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Australia, and elsewhere, Marcagi released his debut EP American Romance in 2024, featuring “Scared to Start” and four other songs.

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The Moss

In a musical landscape with fewer boundaries than ever before, THE MOSS’s exuberant brand of alternative rock spans genres, eras, and even oceans.

The Utah-via-Hawaii group was born on the shores of Oahu in 2015, as teenage buddies Tyke James (vocals/guitar) and Addison Sharpp (guitar) (later replaced by Tyler Harris) picked up a gig serenading diners at local taco trucks in between surf sessions. Naturally, their songs took shape in the spirit of the island, imbued with the joyfulness and breeziness of reggae culture yet cut with the introspection and communal spirit of mainland indie acts like Pinegrove and Cage the Elephant.

By 2018, the duo had grown, enlisting Willie Fowler on drums and Addison’s brother Brierton on bass, and traded in beaches for the Great Salt Lake. They hit the stage at spots like local cornerstone Kilby Court, live-testing their modern-indie-meets-’60s-blues with a wide-eyed exuberance that translated effortlessly into their 2019 self-released debut, Bryology.

Colored by the sound of Stratocasters jamming through reverb-cranked Fender amps, all backed by bouncy rhythms, Bryology marked a big step for the still-young quartet – but, true to The Moss’s nature, was still hard-coded with a DIY ethos.

The follow-up, 2021’s Kentucky Derby, brought a more aspirational, blue-sky tilt to the foundation they’d laid on Bryology, expanding the group’s sonic arsenal while keeping the relatable lyrical style and sun-soaked sentiment at the forefront.

No matter how listeners choose to interact with The Moss’s music, the band just hopes they feel something. It’s that kinetic relationship between band and audience that makes their live performances – including a pitch-perfect recent set for Audiotree – so compelling. “No matter what we do, we want to make sur

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