On tour
Posted on Saturday, March 19th, 2011 - 11:53 pm
St. Patrick’s Day is celebrated more in the city of Chicago than in Dublin Ireland. That’s the way it felt Saturday March 12, 2011 when a triple bill of Mountain Sprout, J Roddy Walston & the Business, and Great American Taxi rolled into the Double Door Chicago.
Unfortunately, I missed...
Posted on Saturday, March 19th, 2011 - 12:37 am
It was a clash of the bass guitar titans Saturday night at the Boulder Theater. A double bill of the Victor Wooten Band and the Stanley Clarke Band was a jazz extravaganza showcasing two generations of innovative bass masters together under one roof.
From his early days with Bela Fleck and the...
Posted on Monday, March 14th, 2011 - 5:39 pm
Thursday was a tough night for a jam band to play a show on the Front Range in Colorado. The String Cheese Incident were playing the first of a three night run at the 1st Bank Center in Broomfield and no doubt sucked up a lot of the potential concert-going hippie crowd.
But a thin audience didn’t...
Posted on Monday, March 14th, 2011 - 5:21 am
Mash-up master Gregg Gillis, aka Girl Talk, didn’t give a concert last night at the Ogden Theater in Denver, he threw a party. Complete with balloons, confetti, a machine that blew streams of toilet paper through the air, and his own intricate brand of generations of multi-genre beats, hooks and...
Posted on Tuesday, March 8th, 2011 - 6:54 pm
It was an evening of indie rock Saturday at the Fox. Tapes ‘n Tapes, with support from Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr. and Fellow Citizens all put in a full nights work taking the audience on a ride through effects-laden harmonies, sonic shoe-gazing and urgent power pop. The three groups collectively played...
Posted on Saturday, March 5th, 2011 - 5:22 am
Jeff Austin is a shoo-in for the most animated mandolin player of the year award. There’s no doubt he’d win, if and when such an award came to be. Whether echoing guitarist Nick Forster’s vocals on “Nine Pound Hammer” or tearing through the chords and picking of Yonder Mountain String Band classics...
Posted on Wednesday, March 2nd, 2011 - 5:44 am
A Los Angeles gangster rapper turned Hollywood icon. Ice Cube (born O’Shea Jackson) -- founding member of N.W.A.—“the world’s most dangerous group,” stopped in Colorado for the second night of his 2011 cross-country tour. Fans and critics wondered if Cube could still pull off a live show, or if he’...
Posted on Tuesday, March 1st, 2011 - 2:43 am
Electronic music duo BoomBox dropped the bomb dance party on a sold out crowd at the Fox Theater on Friday night. This was one stop in an eight show assault the group led through Colorado this past week. Fans turned out ready to get their groove on, many in their finest disco garb, all surely...
Posted on Saturday, February 26th, 2011 - 2:17 am
On a raw, soggy Wednesday night, an army of San Franciscans donning thick cardigans and even thicker horn rimmed glasses peruse Café de Nord's intricate wainscoting and hand carved mahogany bar as The Love Language plugs in. Along with orchestral Dan Deacon and eclectic veterans Yo La Tango,...
Posted on Friday, February 25th, 2011 - 7:40 am
eTown presented another amazing show at the Boulder Theater on Valentine’s day, saving me from the alternative, a romantic home cooked meal (aka cabbage and salmon quiche- my boyfriends favorite) Relieved and excited, I rolled into the theater around 7 and could hear Martin Sexton warming the...