Legendary drummer and co-founder of the Grateful Dead, Bill Kreutzmann, (who played every show in the band’s illustrious 30 year career as well as The Dead incarnations since) first met funky bluesman and voodoo electronic pioneer Papa Mali at a festival in 2008. Bill recalls in a recent interview, “We first met at the Oregon… Continue reading 7 Walkers: Bill Kruetzmann ft: Papa Mali & Friends @ the Fox Theatre
In 1939, at the age of 13, a precocious and aspiring trumpet player in a high school band was criticized mid-song for playing with too much vibrato. The band teacher had stopped the song short to deliver a message to the trumpeter that he would never forget: He told the boy that he had to… Continue reading Lotus | Boulder Theater | 4/16/2010 | Review
The release of Boredom Springs Anew from Apoc comes just as the flowers bloom. This hip hop act cannot seem to stay put to any single location. Apoc releases tendrils to each place he blooms; he is more like a vine than any flower or houseplant. When I first met we were both observing the… Continue reading Apoc | Boredom Springs Anew | Review
