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The Pikes Peak Region's Guide to Arts and CultureFriday May 25, 2012Colorado Springs Area Weather

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    Heartless Bastards, Hacienda and El Toro de la Muerte

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    Presented by The Triple Nickel Tavern at Triple Nickel Tavern

    May 13, 2010

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    Heartless Bastards have been seen everywhere from Austin City Limits to Jimmy Kimmel Live and even Late Night with David Letterman. They've toured the country relentlessly and on their previous visit to Colorado Springs, they opened for The Gaslight Anthem. The Triple Nickel is limiting this show to only 125 tickets. (They recommend you get your tickets in advance.) Hacienda and El Toro de la Muerte round out the lineup for the evening.

    The Heartless Bastards' story starts in Dayton, Ohio, where Wennerstrom found the name on a multiple choice video trivia game at a bar. As a songwriting teenager during a time when Guided By Voices and Brainiac were packing Dayton's bars and three of the Breeders still lived in town, Wennerstrom used to sneak into clubs to check out the scene. "I would just see those people--my music heroes--hanging out at the bar like everyone else," she remembers. "I could see myself in them. It gave me inspiration to do my own thing."

    After doing the usual business of playing local shows, the trio set out the following year on a regional tour. One of the first gigs of the trip took them to a bar in Akron, where Black Keys' drummer Patrick Carney just happened to be one of only a handful of people in the audience. This chance encounter led Wennerstrom and the Heartless Bastards to Fat Possum Records, where they released their debut, Stairs and Elevators, in early 2005. Since then, the Bastards have played hundreds of shows to support their records.


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        Triple Nickel Tavern

        26 S. Wahsatch Ave
        Colorado Springs, CO 80903

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        $10 for KRCC members. Available at KRCC Studios. $12 Cash only at The Triple Nickel. Open 2pm-2am Will Call Available at: Brownpapertickets.com (1.99 Surcharge applied.) $14 at the door.

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        May 13, 2010

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        Doors: 8pm. Showtime: 9pm

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