A range of Valentine?s Day options, below freezing temperatures and three feet of snow didn?t stop nearly 200 fans from heading to Signal Kitchen for local act Alpenglow?s set Feb. 14.Topknots and Pabst Blue Ribbon cans bobbed along with the band?s tunes and the young crowd was nearly silent, with almost every eye in the venue fixed on the stage.Alpenglow singer and multi-instrumentalist Elori Kramer described the band as ?indie-folk-rock,? and said that drums are the latest addition to the band?s sound.The band is unsigned and does all of their own booking and promotion as a team?or as Kramer put it??we skip the middle man.? Junior Karla Noboa attended the show and said that she had seen Alpenglow perform in the past and described them as ?awesome.? She added that this time they had a ?way fuller sound? than when she heard them last year.The band said that most of them met while attending college in Middlebury, Vt.Last summer they played nearly 50 shows as far south as the Carolinas, as far west as Minnesota and ?just about everywhere in between,? singer Pete Coccoma said.The band is together constantly, between traveling in their 2008 Chevy Suburban and crashing on friends? and relatives? couches everywhere they go, bassist Colin Weeks said.?You get pretty comfortable just walking into any person?s house and taking a shower. We?re just not bashful anymore,? Coccoma said.While tales of bands who get sick of each other are common, Kramer said that Alpenglow gets along ?weirdly well.? ?I think that?s maybe the best thing our band has going for us,? he said.Where are these self-described indie-rockers headed next? ?We?re doing it for the long haul,? Kramer said. ?Fame and glory all the way. We?re under no illusion that it?s going to happen fast,? he said. ?We?re trying to make the music we like that sounds the way we want it?to play the shows we want for the people we want to,? Coccoma said. The band says that they will be announcing a series of spring shows in Vermont soon. You can find Alpenglow on Facebook, Twitter and on their website.
