“Of Summer” wins NY Songwriters Circle honorable mention

We won a New York Songwriters Circle Honorable Mention for “Of Summer” Check out all the finalists and honorable mentions HERE including Chicago pop sensation IJ Quinn who we met at the NYSC’s event at Schuba’s back in September.  It’s a great organization, and we are thrilled to be getting the recognition! For Facebook users, [...]

“Of Summer” voted #1 modern rock song on OurStage.com

“Of Summer,” track 2 of The Double Single, rose to the top of the charts this month to become the #1 song in the OurStage.com modern rock channel for September!  The song garnered several thousand plays in the month, and was then selected as a featured track on OurStage/WinAmp radio.  Since then, “Of Summer” has [...]

ROCTOBER MAGAZINE review

“…this is incredibly charming, poppy, youthful music that feels like traditional roots music, but without any weight of history or dreary anything attached. Hee haw, indeed!”

More BROOKLYN ROCKS live cobalt footage

More acoustic and electric video LIVE from BROOKLYN via the Brooklyn Rocks Blog! We had such an awesome time playing on that rooftop, and we were so pumped when the Brooklyn Rocks team cancelled plans and showed up at Union Hall!  Read what they have to say about us, and enjoy the live footage below [...]

Stellar review in THE JERSEY BEAT

The Jersey Beat just released really great reviews of “The Double Single” and “Jump the Fence,” written by Joe Wawrzyniak. You can read the review in context here.  A stellar review, and more explicit love for “Secrets of the Burgh!” COBALT AND THE HIRED GUNS – The Double Single This two song EP CD delivers [...]

Interview in The Deli Chicago

Before our big tour-kick-off show at Schubas on August 12, we had the opportunity to sit down with Erin from The Deli Chicago for a quick interview.  You can read it all here, but here are some choice excerpts: Double Single was the perfect way to kick off a Chicago summer.  You Left Your Sweater [...]

Live acoustic rooftop footage from BROOKLYN ROCKS blog

On the final day of our first tour this summer – July 24 in Brooklyn – we stopped in Crown Heights to do a session with the Brooklyn Rocks blog. We ended up on the roof eating some snacks, drinking some beverage, and playing an acoustic set

The BROOKLYN PAPER deems “Secrets of the Burgh” a SMASH

I wish we could just embed the video, but alas we cannot. So you are going to have to click the link. IT’S WORTH IT!

Radio Radio – XRT and WLUW Love

As if things were not exciting enough already over here in Cobalt-land getting ready for our big summer tour, we had a big week in Chicago radio last week when our new song “Of Summer” was played on WXRT 93.1 and then on WLUW 88.7. XRT’s Richard Milne had a lot of great things to [...]