Music
Back-to-back spreading the energy
The Acidophiles want to take you on a trip In Amandha Gilson’s biology textbook at CSU, the word “acidophile” referred to an organism that flourished in an acidic, normally inhospitable environment. As a band name, it evokes lonely, beautiful imagery of obscure ...
The Infamous Stringdusters raise flood relief money for and with The...
To name them by genre, The Infamous Stringdusters are a bluegrass five-piece. But Stringdusters manager Michael Allenby prefers other descriptors. Tongue in cheek, he sometimes calls them a high-country band. But at their core, Allenby says, the Infamous ...
Celebrating a quarter century of fun and music at the Rocky...
It’s hard to believe that the Rocky Mountain Folks Festival is celebrating its 25th year on Friday, August 14. I know I should be happy for the nice people at Planet Bluegrass. After all, they started this celebration of great music and songwriting from scratch ...
A gentle virtuoso
When Bill Frisell plays the Unity this Saturday, as a benefit for KGNU, he will be accompanied by only his guitar. Hardly an unheard-of gig for the storied guitarist/composer, but something he admits is still a bit of a challenge...
With shades of ‘Trane
It may not matter to most listeners that John McLaughlin’s latest CD To The One is a tribute of sorts to a virtuoso of another time...
Country soul
For years, Lucero has been considered by some to be an alt-country band. But ask Lucero frontman Ben Nichols about the label, and it’s obvious he always saw his band in a different light...
DJ Shadow at Boulder Theater: An exercise in evolution
Josh Davis, better known by his elusive moniker, DJ Shadow, has enjoyed a kind of staying power few artists experience. A San Francisco DJ and producer with a famous affinity for record collecting, he forever influenced the world of hip-hop in 1996 with Endtroducing...
REVIEW: Eliot Lipp at the Fox Theatre, Dec. 7
For those who didn’t sweat the end of another semester, last...
Electric Red: Ghosts of fusion past
You hear it immediately, and practically see it, too. The glowering and stooped visage of post-Bitches Brew Miles Davis, prowling across a stage and cueing one of his sidemen for a solo with a hand gesture, the trumpet pointed south, the music tightening and ...
Unclassifiable
Dafnis Pietro was born in Santa Clara, Cuba, in 1974, and he didn’t take long to become immersed in the rich Afrocuban musical tradition of his homeland...
