Music
Getting it off your chest
Todd Snider may have, of late, been garage rocking and singing in Hard Working Americans, the band made up of members of Widespread Panic...
Bass Instincts
It's 4:30 in the morning, halfway across the world in Australia, and Stanley Clarke is resting the world’s most renowned electric bass chops when the call comes...
Stepping into the spotlight
Fourteen years, give or take, is a long time to be the guy off to one side, but Dave Rawlings, the guitarist/songwriter who’s been accompanist to Gillian Welch since the mid-’90s, is a studiously pragmatic musician. Welch’s voice and restless fluency in any ...
Kansas City’s Tech N9ne prepares for music industry supremacy
Even for a guy named after a gun, Tech N9ne is aggressive...
Surprise funk
Keller Williams’ new CD, Funk, is being touted as something of a surprise album. Considering that Williams is known for playing acoustic music that often has leaned toward folk, that’s understandable...
Keeping it real
In the music industry, where major record labels constantly turn out new pop hits reminiscent of something we heard the week before, great music doesn’t always make successful music. In this restrictive environment, musicians often have to balance commercial ...
Neal Morse doesn’t apologize for easy listening
"I need to come out of the clouds every now and then,” Neal Morse says, apologizing for being immersed in writing, and calling into our...
Octopus Nebula brings a different electronic groove
There’s an almost sinister grace that pervades Octopus Nebula and their limber, unforced sleepwalk through deep groove electronica. OK, it’s not rocket science; a quartet of live players, all more or less graduates from groove scenes of varying success and commitment...
Boulder Phil offers a variety of public events
The Boulder Philharmonic and composer Missy Mazzoli will have a busy week Feb. 6-12.
Mazzoli, who visits Boulder courtesy of a Music Alive Composer Residency,...
Dial ‘B’ for Bonobo
Last year, Simon Green found himself in that most universal of experiences: Green turned 40 and lost his father, his last living parent. His...
Westerns, whiskey and ‘Little Silver Hearts’
Similar to the rule that says you have to kiss under mistletoe, legend has long had it that if you go to a Lucero...
From ‘the old country,’ with love
The sounds filling Denver’s Mercury Café at the end of each month may come from Colorado musicians, but the traditions behind them traveled a...
