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Junkyard Social Club

Happy Hour @ The Junkyard Social Club: Second Birthday Special! (10.9.26)

Y’all, our Friday Happy Hour @ The Junkyard Social Club (@junkyardsocialclub) is two years old! It has been a real joy to throw 23(!) of these parties with you and I’m pleased to announce our second birthday party! 2️⃣ 🎂 ✌️🪩 🙌

We’ll be joined by fan favorite Two Hands Paperie (@twohandspaperie) who will host one of their collage popup sessions. 🙌 📰 🗺️ ✂️

This month our guest DJ will be making his public debut, we’re proud to introduce to you the one and only REMO!

For our second birthday, it’s cool to have both a long term collaborator like Two Hands Paperie and a new DJ like REMO at the same party.

As I wrote the last time Mia from Two Hands joined us, DJing is like collage in that it depends on the combination and juxtaposition of materials that are, “ready at hand.” The tools and materials may be different, but the goal is the same: to make something new out of something old. To use old ideas and forms to create new ones.

Sort of like the Junkyard. Sort of like these happy hours, which we’ve tried to focus on bringing different groups of people together and see what we can make together.

* Some collage materials will be provided (magazines, paper scraps, and ephemera).

* BYO scissors, glue stick, and special collage materials from your secret stash.

* First 20 people receive a special collage scrap pack courtesy of Two Hands Paperie!

* Plus Happy Hour & Red Tail Sound Giveaways!

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Happy Hour @ The Junkyard Social Club
Friday, October 9, 2026 from 4-6pm
Second Birthday Special!

Featuring a pop-up collage session with
Two Hands Paperie

DJ sets by REMO and Duck La Rock.

Happy Hour + Red Tail Sound Giveaways! 🎺

$2 off entry for kids, $5 suggested donation for adults, plus drink specials at the cafe!
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Original flyer collage by Mia Semingson, Two Hands Paperie; text and layout by M. Douglas Laroque.

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Boulder Farmers Market

Duck La Rock @ Boulder Farmers Market on Halloween (10.31.26)

I am super excited to share the news that I will be DJing at the Boulder Farmers Market (@bcfm) on Saturday, October 31 … Halloween!

Expect real vinyl mixing from 10:00am – 2:00pm; I’ll be set up in the plaza next to Boulder Dushanbe Teahouse alongside the (amazing) food trucks. 🌮 🥪 🍖

Duck La Rock at Boulder Farmers Market
Saturday, October 31st, 2026 (Halloween)
By Dushanbe Tea House, 13th Street, Boulder, CO.
10:00 am – 2:00 pm

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Cycling

Duck La Rock @ Cyclo X Valmont (9.26.26)

Colorado cyclocross is back! Without Limits (@withoutlimitsco) kicked off the Cyclo X series with some@great racing at Harlow Platts last weekend and this weekend I’ll be your morning announcer and DJ at the 2026 Cyclo X Valmont on Saturday, September 26!

I’ll be on the decks and on the mic from 8-11am at Valmont Bike Park in Boulder. Expect an eclectic soundtrack of everything from funk to punk from around the world. Maybe an interview or two? Stay tuned!

Superstar DJ Duck La Rock @ Cyclo X Valmont
Saturday, September 26, 2026
8:00 – 11:00 am

Valmont Bike Park
Boulder, CO

$free for all ages

Original photo c. 2025 Brent Murphy Photography (@brentmurphyphoto)

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Junkyard Social Club

Learn to Mix with Duck La Rock @ STEAM Fest! (9.26.26)

STEAM FEST returns to the Junkyard Social Club (@junkyardsocialclub) this Saturday, September 26 and I’ll be holding down the stage from 2:00 – 4:00 pm with a hands on demo of DJ basics and show how to build out a DJ setup with mixers and audio sources like turntables, cassette decks, and CD players. Playing around with sound has never been easier!

Free records, CDs, and tapes courtesy of Paradise Found Records & Music (@paradise_found_records)!

All ages are welcome — come by and let’s make some noise! 🔊

Learn to Mix with Superstar DJ Duck La Rock
STEAMFEST 2026 @ Junkyard Social Club
Saturday, September 26, 2026
Mixing Lessons 2:00 – 4:00 pm
$10

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STEAMFEST IS BACK!
Join us September 26 for a full day of hands-on science, engineering, art, invention, and wonderfully weird Junkyard-style experimentation. The event is facilitated in partnership with the Colorado School of Mines College of Engineering!

Build it. Break it. Remix it. Test it. Crawl through it. Wear it. Splash in it.

Engineer a giant Playground Water Challenge
Create Frankentoy Mash-Ups + Trash Fashion
Turn old T-shirts into bags + experiment with bleach stenciling
Climb toward the sky with Crate Stacking
Engineer a Junk Capsule to protect one fragile Pringle
Eat color-changing chemistry snow cones
Make sci-fi sounds in the Theremin Zone
Learn to mix with DJ Duck La Rock
Transform a whole room with Epic Fort Building
Twist and crawl through our 25-foot Speleo-Box Cave Maze

STEAMfest is all about getting curious, trying something new, making a mess, and discovering what happens when science + art + play collide.

Saturday, September 26
Two sessions: 10am–2pm or 2–6pm
$10 admission
Come ready to experiment. There are no wrong answers. Just more things to try!

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Boulder Farmers Market

Duck La Rock @ The Boulder Farmers Market (9.16.26)

Live Recording:

Previously…

I’ll be playing an all vinyl set at the Boulder County Farmers Market (@bcfm) on 13th Street in beautiful downtown Boulder on Wednesday, September 16! Music from 3:30 – 7:30 pm, y’all.

Come say hi and grab something to eat!

Duck La Rock at the
Boulder County Farmers Market
Wednesday, September 16, 2026
3:30 – 7:30 pm

13th Street, Boulder

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KGNU

Duck La Rock on KGNU’s Afternoon Sound Alternative with special guest Laser Ben (8.31.26)

RECORDING: Full Episode with all vinyl sets and conversation with host Duck La Rock and special guest Laser Ben of Low Key Productions.

RECORDING: Excerpt of Laser Ben interview and guest set.

Follow the Red Tail Sound Podcast for more!

Duck La Rock on KGNU’s Afternoon Sound Alternative!
Duck was joined by special guest Laser Ben (@djlaserben) of Boulder, CO’s Low Key Productions (@lowkey_in_co), who play a guest all vinyl DJ set and joined Duck for a conversation about Boulder’s thriving vinyl DJ scene.

KGNU’s Afternoon Sound Alternative with host Duck La Rock
and special guest Laser Ben of Low Key Productions

All vinyl special!

Monday, August 31, 2026
12:00 to 3:00 pm

KGNU FM 88.5 Boulder, KGNU 1390 Denver
Streaming live and on demand at KGNU.org

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Happy Hour

Friday Happy Hour @ The Junkyard Social Club (9.11.26)

Friday Happy Hour returns to the Junkyard Social Club (@junkyardsocialclub) on September 11! Join us for the last Friday Happy Hour of Summer, 2026!

You’ll hear this month’s guest, Disco Witch (@disco.witch.is.here) and DJ host Duck La Rock on the decks while a special visiting exhibit, The Breathing Healing Bus, can be visited in the Junkyard’s front parking lot.

Enjoy drink specials at the bar!
Kid entry is $2 off
Adults may pay a $5 suggested donation

Enjoy the Junkyard’s epic recycled play structures, visit the DJs at the turntables to learn about how DJing works, or catch up with friends in the shade! It’s a perfect way to start off the weekend.

Produced by a community of Native artists, activists, and historians, the Breathing Healing Bus is touring the Front Range with an exhibit providing essential context for the anniversaries of Colorado statehood and U.S. nationhood, and addressing the hard history of genocide, forced removal, and ongoing marginalization of Native Americans in our country.

Friday Happy Hour
at the Junkyard Social Club
September 11, 2026
4:00 – 6:00 pm

Enjoy drink specials at the bar!
Kid entry is $2 off
Adults may pay a $5 suggested donation

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Party

Duck La Rock @ Birkenstock Boulder Grand Opening (8.15.26)

Duck La Rock opened a weekend of celebrations with an all vinyl set at the grand opening of Birkenstock’s (@birkenstockusa) new Boulder store at the 29th Street Mall (@twentyninthstreetmall)!

Duck’s rocked the Birks (Boston clogs, specifically) since the early 90’s, y’all. This gig was an easy and enthusiastic yes. 🦶

Duck was followed by a who’s who of local vinyl DJs, incl;uding markvm aka Ecstatically Eclectic (@ecstatically_eclectic) on Saturday and Disco Witch (@disco.witch.is.here) and Iris Berkeley (@irisberkeley) on Sunday.

Superstar DJ Duck La Rock at
BIRKENSTOCK BOULDER GRAND OPENING
Saturday, August 15
10:00am – 12:30pm

Birkenstock Boulder, 29th Street Mall

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Tulagi Music Festival

Dino Disco with Red Tail Sound @ Tulagi Music Festival ( 8.30.26)

I am pleased to announce that we are bringing Dino Disco to this year’s Tulagi (formerly Boulder Roots) Music Festival (@boulderrootsmusicfest) at Mountain Sun (@mountainsunpub)!
💃🪩🦖

For the last several years, Red Tail Sound has partnered with Boulder’s beloved Jeff & Paige (@jeffandpaige) to host Dino Disco at Boulder Creek Fest’s Creek Side for Kids stage. It’s so exciting to bring the party to Tulagi and Mountain Sun for the first time!
🕺🪩🦕

This is an all ages show! Kids and grownups alike have been known to get down to the Mesozoic sound of the Superstar DJ Duck La Rock! How could they not, with Pam the TRex, Pickles the Pteranodon, and our as-yet-unnamed triceratops burning up the dance floor?

Tulagi Music Festival presents
DINO DISCO
with Red Tail Sound

Sunday, August 30, 1026
3:00pm – 4:00pm

Mountain Sun Pub
1535 Pearl Street, Boulder

See you there!

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Tulagi Music Festival

Duck La Rock @ Tulagi Volunteer Community Celebration (8.10.26)

Live recording on the Red Tail Sound Podcast!

The people who make Tulagi happen deserve a night of their own! Come hang. Meet your people. Get the inside scoop on this year’s fest. Dance a little.

⭐ Featuring Superstar DJ DuckLaRock
📅 Monday, Aug 10 /// 6–8 PM
📍 Junkyard Social Club — 2525 Frontier Ave, Boulder
🎟️ Free to get in