Music

The many sides of Reggie Williams

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In a bedroom in Nashville, Tennessee, lined with Fleet Foxes and Cowboy Bebop posters sits a sleepy Reggie Williams. A musician from Bradenton, Florida,...

Dirtwire’s restless walkabout

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The thing starts a little ominously, the nervous whine of an arpeggio picked across a Telecaster with heavy reverb, a loping tempo behind it,...

The Dead shall rise

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Not that we knew it at the time, but we’re pretty sure the weirdly twice-echoed staccato stomp of “Ants Marching” we heard from our...

MahlerFest XXXII offers two orchestral concerts in expanded schedule

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Colorado MahlerFest is growing.  This year, the 32nd edition of the festival will feature more repertoire than ever, including two separate orchestra programs in Macky...

‘That’s the juice’

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When Boulder County singer-songwriter Kate Farmer was hit with a diagnosis of multiple sclerosis, she thought it might be time to put her music-making...

Chasms and bridges

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The skies were a sickly slate gray a couple of weeks ago when we caught up with Gasoline Lollipops’ singer/songwriter Clay Rose. Not so...

Brandi Carlile bares her soul on latest album

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One of the major ways Brandi Carlile feels she improved as a singer on her latest CD, Give Up The Ghost, was in being able to tap into the emotions that fueled her songs as they were first being written when it came time — sometimes many months later — to record her ...

Cleaner and meaner  

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If there’s one moment that captures the sonic leap of Nashville-based music artist Sophie Allison over the last half-decade, it comes right in the...

Bring da motherfuckin’ ruckus

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Like so many of life’s great mysteries, it all began with a press release. On July 27, the U.S. Department of Justice sent out a...

Greyhounds, sex and rock ’n’ roll

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As The Yawpers played an unofficial South by Southwest set on a riverboat gliding aimlessly through the Colorado River in Austin, Texas, I couldn’t help but feel like Dante Hicks in Clerks. I’m not even supposed to be here today...

Knocking down dominoes

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On Jan. 6, Jeff Kassel and Jake Lobel looked out over the crowd at the Riverwalk Center in Breckenridge. The electronic dance music producing...

Getting it off your chest

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Todd Snider may have, of late, been garage rocking and singing in Hard Working Americans, the band made up of members of Widespread Panic...