Music

Keeping tradition alive

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Troy Andrews was handed a trombone at the age of 4, and he’s never looked back.  “I think at that time that was one of...

‘Punch your way into the party’

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Author Erin K. Barnes, who writes under the pen name GoGo Germaine, calls herself a “pretty typical Coloradan.” But the adolescent at the center...

A kinder, gentler Ween

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 It´s hard to picture the two guys who wrote “Waving My Dick In The Wind” and “Spinal Meningitis” settling into suburban family life, but time has a way of imposing its will on everyone, even Gene and Dean Ween...

The final stage

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He was a whirlwind on stage. A larger-than-life mandolin dervish enticing huge audiences to join him on a wild ride, and a songwriter who...

El Ten Eleven

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Chalk it up to good luck or the benevolent hand of Providence, the SoCal duo El Ten Eleven landed safely in Philadelphia (see what...

Around the world

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There’s a whole world in the sound of Colorado Springs hip-hop duo The Reminders. Not unlike The Clash’s outlook in the early 1980s, the...

The anguish of slavery

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For many, the word “Klezmer” conjures up images of Jewish brides in chairs being hoisted in the air by friends and family while “Hava Nagila” plays in the background, or perhaps the scene in Fiddler on the Roof where men dance with bottles on their heads. But a group...

Psych-rock stars

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In the summer of 2006, I was drumming in a fledgling San Francisco psychedelic indie-rock band called The Love X Nowhere when we played to a sparse West L.A. crowd along with a bluesy young opening act called Mania, made up of scruffy UC Santa Cruz kids. “Mania...

Lindsey Saunders

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Friday, March 21: Lindsey Saunders & Her Band. 7:30 p.m. Cannon Mine Coffee, 210 S. Public Road, Lafayette, 303-665-0625...

Imagining a better world

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In 1970, Scotland Yard busted into the prestigious London Art Gallery, shutting down a newly opened show and seizing eight pieces of artwork deemed obscene by authorities. The confiscated lithographs, a relatively tame set of erotic nudes created by the artist for ...

Luther Dickinson’s songbook

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It’d be a mistake to regard Luther Dickinson’s Blues & Ballads — A Folksinger’s Songbook: Volumes I & II as a career retrospective, even...

Details, details

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I just can’t be happier,” enthused Caleb Kronen when we caught up to him last week by phone, “I finally got the album submitted to CD Baby. Everything is secured and ready to go now.” Caleb Kronen may be a bit more prone to second-guessing the final mix than most ...