Music
Dirt-on-the-ground type of journey
Bruce Cockburn’s last album, Small Source of Comfort, came out six years ago. But Cockburn had good reasons to back up his absence; he...
‘Mahler at the top of the mountain’
Mahler, it is well known, loved to hike in the Alps. So it is fitting that Kenneth Woods, the brand new artistic director of...
Rick Rubinesque
Fans that head to The Avett Brothers for any of the shows during its three night stint at Red Rocks Friday, July 11 through Sunday, July 13 expecting the kind of stripped-down, acoustic performance that was the group’s trademark will be in for a surprise...
Light it up
Not that we’d know anything about this, but sometimes the hardest part of getting a piece of work done is just starting it, getting the wheels turning, finding a way in while being stared at by a blank page waiting for a lead sentence, or that first brushstroke, or ...
Peaches teaches
When the iconic, multi-talented Peaches (born Merrill Nisker) answered our recent Zoom call, she was lounging in a sunny Los Angeles backyard, playing with...
Music with heart
There is something wholly refreshing about the way Nederland acoustic folk quintet Elephant Revival approaches their art. In an industry full of cynicism and bloated egos, Elephant Revival is the wide-eyed idealist in a room full of cynics...
Spiritual changes
Brother Ali’s two-day stint at the Fox Theatre this Sunday and Monday is bound to be a good time. Just don’t be surprised if the rapper seems pensive rather than celebratory...
Blues to make you dance
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 ...
The Two Man Gentleman Band are farce done well
When I initially received a disc of Live in New York! by The Two Man Gentlemen Band, I had severe reservations. Novelty music is the slipperiest slope a group can climb. When it’s good it’s as funny as the greatest standup comics, but when it’s bad it’s more annoying...
