Meet Skyler McCoy | Music Producer, Songwriter, and Singer

We had the good fortune of connecting with Skyler McCoy and we’ve shared our conversation below.

Hi Skyler, what’s the end goal, career-wise?
For me personally, I think I’m always going to be producing music and looking for the next thing people can listen to over and over and become obsessed with, at least if their experience with music is similar to mine. I want to have written a song that soundtracked someone’s life for a time, or that they had in their head at a pivotal moment in their life, etc. That’s what music is about for me, and so I’ll always be trying to achieve that. I want to have worked on mine and others’ music, and maybe be identifiable for the way my things sound, and maybe have people who really like it. I want to be someone who’s devoted to the art and whose output and listenership speak to that. For me right now, Better Weather is the primary outlet where I can make myself really reach for that, and hopefully it’ll get us somewhere.

Alright, so let’s move onto what keeps you busy professionally?
Professionally I’ve gotten to do some awesome things by age 20, I think. I mostly work at Red Rocks Amphitheater as a stage hand, usually specifically in audio, so I get to work for the artists that come through there and take part in making some of the coolest shows happen. I started working there because of the internship I had for recording orchestras (shoutout Bravo! Vail). The New York Philharmonic and Philadelphia Orchestra are some of the best in the world, and to record them is a privilege not many human beings get (not to mention in beautiful Vail, CO). Working in the same environment as artists of this caliber so far has made me better at what I do as a musician, I think. The biggest thing I’ve learned is that thousands of different people go to see thousands of different performers every night in the U.S. alone, and that sure, someone might be into the music you make but you’re only one of several. It’s humbled me and taken the pressure off.

Let’s say your best friend was visiting the area and you wanted to show them the best time ever. Where would you take them? Give us a little itinerary – say it was a week long trip, where would you eat, drink, visit, hang out, etc.
This is so relevant because I’m planning the very trip right now. There’d have to be a night at Tracks or something, True Food Kitchen for dinner sometime, I went there with friends recently and it was so awesome. I eat at Raising Cane’s all the time too. And we’d walk around the Cherry Creek Mall, probably sample the fragrances in one of the stores, then check out the Five Points area by Larimer Lounge, maybe the cool REI by downtown. Then one of my favorite coffee places, either Corvus on Broadway or Stella’s on Pearl or Mango Tree in Englewood. A People In Between jam if we’re enough lucky to have one that week (please check these out if you haven’t, they’re amazing!). ((The drummer in that band, Rowan, is actually playing drums in Better Weather now, I’ve loved getting to know some of the musicians in the scene in Denver recently.)). If no PIB jam, then maybe a Roxy one. There’d probably be a night at the studio at DU, that’s the one I use, and a Wash Park day. So much to do here.

Shoutout is all about shouting out others who you feel deserve additional recognition and exposure. Who would you like to shoutout?
So many shoutouts to give. I’ll give one to my high school choir teacher, Billy Buhl. He’s the main person responsible for me being a musician right now. I took his audio production class my sophomore year of high school because I wanted to be an engineer (recording) but he somehow convinced me to join choir by the end of the school year. I don’t know. So I did, and I improved a lot as a musician and came to music school and all the rest, and he pointed me in the right direction a lot of times, and when I needed it most. Shoutout Mr. Buhl!

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Mason O’Brien, Colleen Makosky, Anna Neumann, Eric Eisenberg, Luke Osborn, Nina Morgenstein, Erin Hanson