Music
Just here to help make magic
How Your Mom’s House has survived five years as an independent venue in Denver’s competitive music scene
Phone down, eyes up, hearts open
Goose’s Peter Anspach on the raw magic of improvisational live music
How many times can you say ‘funky’?
For the Mountain Sun’s “Funky Good Times” anniversary show, co-owner Tim McMurray must put together a band of talented musicians who may never have played together...
REVIEW: Atmosphere at the Fox Theatre
Photos by Jules Keuffer. To read P.J. Nutting's interview with Slug, click here...
Wood Brothers
The Wood Brothers’ new LP, suggestively titled One Drop of Truth¸ starts its program with a simple acoustic guitar bounce, a bluesy, sundance-in-the-field filigree...
Dancing with the chaos
If we are what we read, then Nick Murphy is a soul on a journey — a shaman in training.
Like most voracious readers, the...
The album that almost wasn’t
With the release of their third studio album Southern Rock Opera in 2001, the Drive-By Truckers finally emerged from local alt-country favorites to national critical darlings. The sprawling, hard-charging, 94-minute epic masterpiece somehow weaves the band’s personal...
This must be the place
The stage is empty save for one microphone and a boom box. A man in a gray suit and an acoustic guitar walks up,...
Who says hipsters don’t have soul?
To equate Mayer Hawthorne to an old soul is more accurate than most would even realize. While Hawthorne’s fans recognize it as an allusion to a sound oft-compared to legendary sounds of yore like Isaac Hayes, Barry White or Curtis Mayfield, it’s also a proper ...
The jokers of spades
Not many modern metal groups are featured on NPR’s First Listen or routinely garner nearly a halfmillion YouTube views when a new music video is released. But Portland sludge-rock favorite Red Fang, which plays the Gothic Theatre in Denver this Friday night, has a ...
