Music
The many faces of Chree Bagheera
Chree Bagheera honed his obsession in the shadows. Music was present in his household growing up, but Bagheera’s family discouraged a career path in...
Rev(AMP)’ed
Sometimes it just doesn’t work out. Relationships are funny like that. Things can always go south, even when it’s been going well for years. In the case of Oakland-based hip-hop duo Zion I, emcee Zumbi and producer Amp Live have been through the gamut. There’s an ...
The Wildflower in spring
"What did the drummer say right before he got kicked out of the band?” asks Patrick Sites, sharing a joke that he and his Whitewater Ramble band mates like to tell. He laughs as he delivers the punch line. “Hey guys, can we do one of my songs...
Cowgirl Radio looking to cross mediums
Nothing happens quickly in Jerry Greene’s world, at least when it comes to developing and staging his erstwhile music project Cowgirl Radio. The Boulder-based guitarist has staged the band, with varying personnel, off and on at The Laughing Goat for a couple of years...
For second CD, Mute Math had to restart from scratch
As Mute Math began touring in support of its latest CD, Armistice, the band faced a familiar challenge — how to rework the new songs so the four-piece band can play them live...
The pale blue dot
When Denver-based band Motion Trap drops their first fulllength album, palebluedot, on May 5, the release party the following week at Lost Lake will be, in some ways, a celebration 10 years in the making...
Shifting forward, backwards and sideways
Kate Stables relishes in duality. It’s the scaffolding around which the Paris-based, U.K.-born banjoist builds much of her new album, Off Off On, her...
Life under Duran Duran
For some, the bulk of popular music in the 1980s is looked back upon as a mere punch line. Flock of Seagulls? Michael Jackson and Paul McCartney doing “Say Say Say”? Poison? Bob Dylan hamming it up in a tacky video that found him earnestly singing, “What’s a ...
Things with wings
The narrative goes something like this: You have your whole life to prepare for your first album, and usually less than a year to prepare for your second...
Growin’ ‘Grass
50 years later, RockyGrass in Lyons has become one of America’s great bluegrass festivals
HEAVY ROTATION: The revolution will not be televised
‘The Revolution Will Not Be Televised,’ by Gil Scott-Heron
“The first change that takes place is in your mind. You have to change your mind...
