Music
Calexico’s sounds of the Southwest
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
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
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
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
In late May, Kyle Donovan packed up his guitar and headed south, about a hundred miles west of Austin, to perform in the Kerville...
Neal Morse doesn’t apologize for easy listening
"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
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
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
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
The story of Ímar — the traditional Irish music group, not the ninth-century Viking king the band is named after — starts, unsurprisingly, in...


















