Music

Music as Glue

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If the goal of music truly is to bring people together, then eTown may be the ideal music program. A combination of live performances and artist interviews (as well as a few other goodies thrown in along the way), eTown has been breaking down walls between artists ...

REVIEW: Primus and The Flaming Lips at Red Rocks, Aug. 3

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The moon had just begun to set over a sold-out show at Red...

Bird of a different feather

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Listening to Andrew Bird’s music, one is struck by its tender grace...

Sean Kelly’s long road

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For Sean Kelly, being back at altitude wasn’t really all that...

Free radicals charge the tower

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It was that kind of afternoon, so we caution Jon Gray, trumpeter/vocalist for the local jazz septet Supercollider, that we were going to start our interview in the middle...

REVIEW: The Cool Kids at the Fox Theatre, Aug. 2

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“It’s the new, black...

REVIEW: A Perfect Circle at Red Rocks

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How does a band that hasn’t released music since 2004’s eMOTIVe, and has played few shows since, sell out the 9,450-capacity Red Rocks Amphitheatre? The simplest answer may be that the band features Maynard James Keenan, the lead singer of the rock band Tool. The ...

The tradition lives on

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Perhaps the most beautiful thing about bluegrass music — more beautiful, even, than a southern accent over a banjo twang — is the way the genre blurs the line between audience and performer. Songs are passed down and shared and swapped so freely that it’s often hard ...

Breaking walls with violins

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Zach DePue wants to break down walls...

Frizzle frying up something new

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One thing fans can count on with the current Primus tour (with original drummer Jay Lane on board and a new CD on the way) is it won’t be a nostalgia trip...

REVIEW: Fleet Foxes at Fillmore Auditorium, July 21

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Fleet Foxes make music that hearkens back to the most euphoric of ’60s folk music, and the final product sounds like a blend of America and Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young with a touch of Nick Drake. The intricate arrangements on the band's self-titled 2006 debut LP ...

Bayou burden

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It's not the stuff on the TV Louisiana bluesman Tab Benoit’s singing about. Not the “may cause side effects,” hyper-disclaimered, check-with-your-doctor-first gel cap in the reassuringly pastel boxes...