Music
Shenandoah Davis’ homecoming
A distinct sense of movement and fluidity flows through Shenandoah Davis’ music. A one-time Boulderite now based in Seattle, Davis has developed a distinct tone that pays no heed to all those traditional constructs — genre, structure, even musical meter itself, bend...
Delta blues
The great Mississippi River flood of 1927 began when more than 100 levees broke early in the year. It resulted in more than 27,000 square miles of land being flooded, lasted for almost eight months, and is the most destructive flood in the history of the United ...
Review: Soundgarden at the 1stBank Center, 5-28-13
On a crisp overcast Tuesday night at the 1stBank Center in Broomfield, ’90s rock legends Soundgarden arrived on scene to deliver the riff. While my editor and I were busy procuring a beer, at approximately 8:30 p.m. the opening chords of “Spoonman” reverberated ...
Genre jumper
Afronauts bassist Eric Keeney is a self-proclaimed music geek. For much of his life as a musician, he played in bands that cater to music geeks — complex and technically impressive, but not necessarily conducive to an all-night dance party. That all changed, however...
Next level
The Infamous Stringdusters have been on tour pretty much non-stop since the start of 2017 and will have soon released two live albums, one...
The National rock Denver’s Fillmore
Crystal chandeliers glow coldly in the dark Fillmore Auditorium. On stage, Matt Berninger stands tall in a black suit, carefully caressing his glass of Bacardi. His band swarms around him in a cacophonous wave of composition...
Justin Townes Earle sheds his namesakes to be his own man
Forget that Justin Townes Earle’s middle name comes from a revered songwriter and his last name comes from another. When you listen to his songs, you’ll hear a talent who stands on his own. Sure, his voice sometimes betrays his genes, but where dad Steve is rooted in...
Been away for too long
Before Soundgarden took the stage at Red Rocks Amphitheatre in July 2011, you could forgive the casual fan for wondering whether the band members were just the latest rock gods to pad their bank accounts with fan nostalgia...
Black Mountain don’t surf
Soundtrack albums are usually little more than cheerfully anachronistic artifacts of the unholy alliance between Big Film and Big Music — the major labels used to use them as a roll-of-the-dice jet pack for their prospect acts, hoping that a box-office smash would ...


















