Music
Award success
Chris Pandolfi’s timing was a year off. The banjo player for the Infamous Stringdusters intently watched last year’s Grammys hoping for some recognition of the band’s self-titled release. When the time came and went, so did Pandolfi’s attention span toward the Grammy...
Head For The Hills is rising
By just about any measure, Head for the Hills (H4TH) has had a pretty solid 2011. The Fort Collins-founded newgrass quartet unleashed a solid and surprising long-player last year, winning their second consecutive “Best Bluegrass Band” award from Westword copping some...
Prodigal Child
It’d be a bit of a stretch to find contemporary points of reference to adequately qualify Pat Grossi’s music; we’ll go out on a limb to suggest a club-tempered melding of Jimmy Somerville-meets-Andrea Vollenweider at a trip-hop rave, and if that sounds improbable, ...
Bass logic
When Victor Wooten, arguably the greatest electric bass player of his generation, rolls into town this week, he will uncharacteristically be playing without any of his brothers — his band instead will consist of some longtime friends and players, several of whom ...
Still bringing the “Umph”
After forming in 1997, Umphrey’s McGee soon began their relentless touring schedule. Meticulously recorded on its website, the band tracks the venue and set list for every live show the band has ever played over 17 years: a number that currently sits right above 2,...
Raising the dead
Not so long ago, in a land called Toronto, two young men met at a Sonic Youth show (or maybe it was in prison, or on a pirate ship, or perhaps on ChristianMingle.com — this part of the story is murky). The lads bonded over a mutual affinity for punk rock and a ...
The ’dudes are back in town
A year and a half ago, we had a chance to chat with John Magnie and Steve Amedee to get a little background on their work with singer/songwriter Rebecca Folsom, who was just getting ready to release her new album Reunion. During the course of that conversation, we ...
Gallery: Rev. Horton Heat at Boulder Theater
Check out a photo gallery from Brit Antrim at the Rev. Horton Heat show on Friday, August 20, 2010 at the Boulder Theater:
The Ringers are very highly strung
There is a long list of reasons those ephemeral troikas known as “supergroups” are becoming rare. But two main causes is that players often hate them and they usually produce lousy music...
