Artist description Indie, Down Beat Pop, with just a little bit of Country

Music Style Indie, Down Beat Pop, with just a little bit of Country

Similar Artists Grant Lee Buffalo, Gomez, Beta Band, Sean Lennon, American Analog Set

Artist History Singer/Songwritter Cody Lee Dopps of Denver, Colorado has been passionate about music since a few hours after his birth. Growing up beneath a piano, he quickly developed a habit of composing short songs and reworking, and vastly improving, a number of Beethoven's sonatas. Shortly after a court order removed him from high school he co-founded an Agro-funk-glamrock-dixieland band called Andrea's Winter, which became quite popular with members of Denver's criminal fringe, but was coolly received by both the popular musical press and the managing board of the Denver Dumb Friends League. Cody's relationship with music has always mirrored his relationship with the ladies, many of whom refer to him as "Hit'n'Run Dopps". His playing styles take on the sense of someone who has absorbed the cultures of many world cities and a lot of that juice you get when you make ramen noodles. He is, and always has been, remarkably absorbent. His "music" is described as "Math Rock" by some, and "a deliberate threat to public morality" by others. It is, put simply, a blend of acoustic pop, lo-fi rock, unearthly sick-cat wailing, with a touch of country and a smidgen of grape jam. It's Buddy Holly meets Elvis Costello for lunch at One Potato Two in the Southwest Plaza food-court. Of rock. Playing with one's self on an empty stage might seem a bit unnerving, especially for a member of the audience, but in the time that Cody has been playing as a solo "musician" he has gained enough confidence (and vast sums of weight) that he's on the right track. Just in the last year Cody has broken into the music scene, two cars and a deli, and is yet to be arrested. He has performed at The Bluebird Theater, The Gothic Theater, The Flying Dog Brewery, several poorly-lit coffee houses, a crooked old-folks home, in the housewares section of Big Lots (formerly MacFrugals), a few local radio shows as well as an opportunity to play his song "Your Blue Satellite" live on KMGH Channel Seven's 4AM agriculture report. Cody is sure to find a well deserved audience, even if he has to go to someone else's show to see them. His debut EP Trajectory/Interference "is unintelligible, poignant and reveals the depth of Dopps psychosis", says Juggs Magazine in their December 6th, 2001 issue. Victor Farnley

Albums Trajectory/ Interference EP

Location Denver, Colorado - USA

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