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Verdi’s grand, operatic ending

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Verdi’s Falstaff is one of the great stories of opera...

Calexico’s sounds of the Southwest

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Calexico’s John Convertino was fielding questions from the media recently; we were his last interview that day, but also at least his second interview prepping the Boulder market for the Tucson-based outfit’s upcoming Fox Theatre gig. The first one caught him a ...

Head in the clouds

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When you combine the prestige of being a headlining MC, the ego of a smartass working stiff, a career that has only grown over two decades and a show at the Fox that immediately sold out months in advance, one might assume that Sean Daley (aka Slug), the voice of hip...

Mixing up more than a few tapes

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Any list of hardest-working musicians should include the name Martin Sexton. He’s released 10 full-length studio albums over a 20-year career, and has maintained a relentless touring schedule that commonly finds him on the road for a year or more with the touring ...

An unexpected path

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Until high school, composer Gustav Hoyer had never played an instrument, so he’d certainly never considered a career as a musician. But a class in...

Transcendent connections

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In late May, Kyle Donovan packed up his guitar and headed south, about a hundred miles west of Austin, to perform in the Kerville...

Chances are you like it

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Why do the chips fall where they may...

Neal Morse doesn’t apologize for easy listening

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"I need to come out of the clouds every now and then,” Neal Morse says, apologizing for being immersed in writing, and calling into our...

Peaches teaches

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When the iconic, multi-talented Peaches (born Merrill Nisker) answered our recent Zoom call, she was lounging in a sunny Los Angeles backyard, playing with...

The American dream

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Xavier Dphrepaulezz is the son of a Somali-Carribean immigrant, and he’s got a story to tell. “I think my story is the American dream,” says...

Deep in the stuff

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Dodging and weaving their way around countless hyphenated genre tags over the course of better than a decade, The Motet greet the new year with just one: funk band...

The magic of the session

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The story of Ímar — the traditional Irish music group, not the ninth-century Viking king the band is named after — starts, unsurprisingly, in...