Music
Starting over in Nashville
Sometimes you’ve just gotta get over yourself, occasionally at the suggestion of your manager. That’s what happened to Dan Layus as he was working...
Mystery music man
In 1994, Portishead dropped an album that would cement trip-hop as a legitimate genre of music and make stars out of Beth Gibbons, Geoff Barrow and Adrian Utley. Although the band detested the “trip-hop” label, their debut album Dummy defined the genre. Filled with ...
Spawning time
Succumbing to a sudden fit of retro-surfing nostalgia, we recently spun Leftover Salmon’s seminal Ask The Fish for a fresh listen. A riot of colliding strings and goofball interludes and marksman-like musicianship, the band’s first live CD, recorded at the Fox in ...
Bike underpass echoes
There are probably few choir groups that have ever performed with such emotion that they evoked tears from their audience, but in December 2010, caroler Debbie Giallombardo remembers a woman almost brought to tears by what she was singing on the Pearl Street Mall...
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 Prairie Scholars
Saturday, January 4: The Prairie Scholars. 4 p.m. Bootstrap Brewing Company, 6778 N. 79th St., Niwot, 303-652-4186...
Winning musicianship
To be completely candid, we missed most of the Grammy Awards a couple of weeks ago, except for the segment where the ever camera-shy Madonna seemed to be commanding a legion of worshipping satyrs, a spectacle made only more surreal with the sound off at our local gym...















