Music
Large happenings for Big Gigantic
What sort of huge, raucous event could warrant switching the moniker of one the most iconic stages on the planet? Something Big Gigantic...
Fifty years and counting
Like millions of Americans who lived through the 1960s, my home was filled with Walter Cronkite’s nightly narration of the events of the day. It seemed the struggle for civil rights was at the center of every newscast only to be replaced at times by the bloody ...
Mabon celebration returns to Planet Bluegrass
In the ancient Gaelic world, Mabon was the time to celebrate the autumn equinox, that mysterious day on the calendar when sunlight and darkness...
Heavy Rotation
NEW TRACKS TO HEAR
“Blossom,” Britney Jane
“How come I gotta forgive and forget / Walking ‘round like you ain’t done no silly shit?” Britney Jane...
Strays & runaways
The metamorphosis of folk trio The Waifs, who play at the Rocky Mountain Folks Festival in Lyons this weekend, is equal parts gritty survival story and enchanting fairy tale. Beginning in 1992, sisters Vikki and Donna Simpson, selftaught guitarists, began traipsing...
Rocking out in a cabin
For details about how you could win free tickets to 3OH!3's intimate performance at Fiske Planetarium, click here...
Phish still loves Dick’s
In its decade-plus of annual (save for 2020) performances at the 20,000-capacity Dick’s Sporting Goods Park outside Denver, the Vermont-jamrock band Phish has provided...
That familiar feeling
Musicologists may argue about how to define folk music, but let us offer this simple suggestion: Folk music is a feeling more than a...
JAMfest, featuring high school musicians and the Flobots’ Jonny Five, a...
Fresh air, a cool breeze, and decent turnout made Friday’s inaugural outdoor JAMfest, held at Fairview High School, a smashing success. Featuring performances from a plethora of high school musicians, the event, which helped raise money for disaster relief program ...
Death in Memphis
In her landmark 1977 book On Photography, Susan Sontag calls photographs a testament to “time’s relentless melt.” For the influential essayist and cultural critic,...
We can rebuild it
Jesse Coppenbarger and Sean Kirkpatrick are the last men standing. Yet the lone remaining members of Colour Revolt’s early days are enjoying the creative breathing room offered by the departure of their former bandmates...
