Love saves the day

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Tragic trajectory

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Music

A nice metaphor for life

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Andrew Duhon took one geology class in college, the class we all took; you know, rocks for jocks with the football players. While the...

Jesse Cook talks labels and artistic heroes

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Somewhere just past the two minute mark of “Tommy and Me,” one of the middle-stretch cuts on world music guitarist Jesse Cook’s latest CD,...

At the altar of Divine Fits

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What do you do when you finally make it? Most artists are perpetually scraping by and innovating just to get by, and when you finally break through that barrier and find yourself no longer a struggling artist but a successful one, where do you go from there...

Concrete Blonde tours for the fun of it

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  Concrete Blonde are that rare animal, an alt-rock band with staying power. The group’s first, self-titled album got the band’s career rolling in 1986, but it wasn’t until 1990’s Bloodletting, featuring the singles, “Joey,” “Bloodletting (The Vampire Song)” and “...

Joe Bonamassa: Blues workhorse

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Joe Bonamassa’s recently released concert CD, Beacon Theatre: Live From New York, isn’t advertised as a homecoming show, but in a very real sense, it was a return to his beginnings...

In for the long haul

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When Linford Detweiler calls, he and his wife/bandmate Karin Bergquist have just crossed the state line into Ohio near Lake Erie. Their folk outfit...

CMF ends 2019 season Aug. 3 with Mahler’s Third Symphony

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Music Director Peter Oundjian will conduct the final two weeks of the Colorado Music Festival 2019 season, with four orchestral concerts July 25–Aug. 3. Oundjian’s...

CMF opening weekend

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The opening weekend of the Colorado Music Festival’s 40th anniversary season, Thursday, June 29 through Sunday, July 2, will set the pattern for the...

She & Him’s latest is more of the same, but that’s...

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First, I’ve got to get something off of my chest. Volume 2, She & Him’s latest creation, is practically the same album as their 2008 debut album appropriately titled Volume 1. Both albums reek with the duo’s quirky cheerfulness, dazzle with ‘60s retrospective, and ...

Blues to make you dance

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Around the same time Robert Johnson was emerging from the crossroads with his newfound guitar-picking skills, wailing about how all his love was in vain, blues music was going through a transformation of its own. The genre was spreading from its humble beginnings on ...

Laugh until it hurts

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Like much of how singer-songwriter Stefan Babcock deals with the relentless pressures of life, the opening interlude on his band PUP’s latest album started...

REVIEW: Kyuss Lives! w/The Sword at Summit Music Hall

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Kyuss was a stoner-metal sludge band that made four albums between 1991 and 1995. The band is known as the first musical collaboration between guitarist Josh Homme and bassist Nick Oliveri, who would later found Queens of the Stone Age. Though Kyuss’ music went ...