Music
Arrivals and departures
The map has always been wide open for Denver’s Carmine Francis. The 33-year-old musician grew up in Pittsburgh and studied music at Berklee in...
We’re just getting started
Modern politics and media are so intertwined it’s hard to view one without the other. But hasn’t it always been this way? Where would...
Performance plus music
People who see He’s My Brother She’s My Sister can expect the band to be able to faithfully reproduce the songs from their recently released full-length debut CD, Nobody Dances In This Town, in a live setting...
Three’s a crowd, but four’s a party
The Devil Makes Three has been together now for a decade, but guitarist/ singer Pete Bernhard says he feels the group is only now starting to hit its stride...
All hail the Mountain Goats
It’s been more than 20 years since singer-songwriter John Darnielle dropped the lo-fi masterpiece All Hail West Texas into the world. Two decades and...
Of beer and bands
Kyle Hollingsworth, keyboardist extraordinaire, sees a lot of similarities between making music and brewing beer, his two passions of late. Within each combination of hops and grains, each interjection of an off-color chord into a jam, there’s an element of chance ...
Call of the wild
Andy Thorn has always walked a fine line between tradition and experimentation. Even as a kid in bluegrass-obsessed North Carolina, watching banjo greats chop...
What’s coming next
Donny Scott, known professionally as Donny Goines, is the low-key, high-talent artist whose sound you’ve been wishing would pulse through your headphones all year....
