Music
It’s all good
The railroad tracks run parallel to First Street in Alabaster, which slips by a couple of used car lots and a strip mall or...
Tonight’s Ra Ra Riot show cancelled
Ra Ra Riot has cancelled tonight's show at the Fox Theatre due to illness...
Forward thinking
Despite Boulder’s long-standing reputation as a liberal lodestar, it’s no secret that too many people here fall through the cracks when it comes to...
Zuill Bailey and Boulder Phil will perform ‘unbelievably successful’ new piece
Zuill Bailey loves watching the audience as he performs.
Unlike pianists and other soloists with orchestra, Bailey, a cellist, sits facing the audience when he...
Record year: Great music in 2012
The state of original music in this country is wonderful. It could be argued that, although corporate-owned mainstream radio has eschewed what’s clearly good, honest music, for what will sell (and what’s released by labels owned by the aforementioned corporations), ...
Pretty Lights Music clowns around at the Fox
Pretty Lights Music is loaded with solo electronic acts, so it’s refreshing to see that as lead man Derek Smith (Pretty Lights) has shed drummers over the years, Pretty Lights Music as a label is increasingly inclusive...
Words from the road
It’s just like me singing in your living room with a three-piece band, or in some little dive bar,” indie-folk singer-songwriter Luke Redfield told me about his new album, The Cartographer, by phone from Minnesota just after spending Christmas with his family there...
Band geeks rule
In an online event description, the City of Louisville has this to say about March Fourth Marching Band: “This is impossible to explain, you’ll just have to be there...
Vintage sheen: Sallie Ford and the Sound Outside
Sallie Ford says that growing up, she was more comfortable singing in groups than by herself. (Her sister, after all, was the one with the performance flair.) Ford was never one for the spotlight, she says...
