Music

Feel good

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I let my 12-year-old serve as DJ on the way to the Gorillaz show at Ball Arena in Denver last night, and from Boulder...

Colorado musicians unite for Ukraine benefit concert

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Denver’s Hi-Dive will host Nick Urata, Slim Cessna and more

Erik Deutsch splits the difference

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"I was kind of off the jam scene for almost 15 years,” reflects Erik Deutsch on his current stint as keyboardist for Leftover Salmon....

Some candy talking

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Scottish noise-saturated rock band The Jesus and Mary Chain set the London underground ablaze in the mid-80s with their confrontational, ear-splittingly loud and often...

Exploring ‘The World As We Know It’

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The warmth of the debut Figueroa album, The World As We Know It, radiates from the first flurried guitar that opens the album; it’s...

Danny Shafer: Keeping it simple

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Penning ambiguous lyrics seems to have become a trend among many of today’s respected artists. So that’s why when an artist like Danny Shafer builds a successful career — even if it’s locally — on well-written simplicity, it feels like a refreshing change of pace...

Harmonic convergence

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Sarah Jarosz always stood out in a crowd even when she was a tiny 12-year-old kid standing on the big stage at the Telluride...

Saving the cats

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The day after A.A. Bondy finished his latest album, Enderness, his house burned in the Woolsey Fire that ate up nearly 100,000 acres of...

The Bela Fleck of the ukulele

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In the world of stringed instruments, the four-string ukulele has a small and kitschy lute that was associated with the likes of the late...

Messes of mewithoutYou

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It’s hard not to become introspective when listening to...

Along the way

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It only seems appropriate that John Craigie is on a road trip when he takes my call. The California-born, Portland-based singer-songwriter is known as...

Jazz sextet, tap dancer, vocalist and choir? It must be Ellington!

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Duke Ellington, jazz legend, pianist and band leader, spent the last decade of his life creating and presenting “sacred concerts.” Described by one critic...