Music
Free, loose and improvised
Don`t get him wrong: Australian multi-instrumentalist Nicky Bomba loves drumming with his brother-in-law John Butler’s trio, which plays Red Rocks on June 4...
A life across six strings
The story goes that when the late Michael Hedges was killing time in Key West—well before he’d achieve fame as a groundbreaking acoustic fingerstyle...
True patriots ask questions
When Martin Sexton sings these days, he’s trying to make a difference, bringing attention to pervasive social and political issues while bringing a diverse audience together...
Dare you to move
Twenty years ago, an up-and-coming SoCal alt-rock outfit called Switchfoot took a gut punch. The band had just turned in The Beautiful Letdown, which...
The joy of ‘Constant Sorrow’
“The Soggy Bottom Boys have been steeped in old-timey material. We’re silly with it.” —Ulysses Everett McGill, O Brother, Where Art Thou?
The gig was...
Life in opera
If you think the nomadic, demanding schedule of opera singers might make it difficult for them to sustain a healthy marriage, you have not met Kevin Langan and Sally Wolf...
Bluegrass without borders
Bluegrass lovers revere the genre’s legendary pickers and singers. And every July at RockyGrass — the high holiday for Front Range fanatics taking place...
Avant garde pop
Satomi Matsuzaki, a Japanese-born, self-taught musician who moved to San Francisco from Tokyo in 1996, highlights the avant indie-rock of Deerhoof with her childlike vocals and thunderous bass guitar. From the simultaneous irreverence, innocence and brilliance of ...
Starting over in Nashville
Sometimes you’ve just gotta get over yourself, occasionally at the suggestion of your manager. That’s what happened to Dan Layus as he was working...
DJ Vajra moves away from battling to producing
"Where I grew up, it was a lot more culturally diverse than Denver, so there was a lot of racial tension,” says Chris Karns about growing up in Ft. Wayne, Ind. “So there were a lot of white kids in my neighborhood that would pick on me for listening to rap music...
What’s coming next
Donny Scott, known professionally as Donny Goines, is the low-key, high-talent artist whose sound you’ve been wishing would pulse through your headphones all year....
The many sides of Reggie Williams
In a bedroom in Nashville, Tennessee, lined with Fleet Foxes and Cowboy Bebop posters sits a sleepy Reggie Williams. A musician from Bradenton, Florida,...
