Lagos, a collaboration between producers Radius and LEO123, releases its self-titled debut album on November 29, 2011, on Eliot Lipp’s “progressively minded beat music imprint” (Beatport) Old Tacoma Records.

With so many bluegrass offshoot outfits actively touring in the States, sometimes it’s hard to decide whose show to go to on a Friday night. Especially in the bluegrass supported state of Colorado, where fans cannot get enough of its dance-ability and energetic tempo, its one of the most popular options for the live concert-going scene. While longer existing outfits have the option at playing large seated venues, most fans seem to come to dance.

Garage A Trois, a post rock/freak jazz entity comprised of Seattle-based saxophonics master Skerik, Brooklyn sound-sculptor/keysman Marco Benevento, Texas-born punk rock vibraphone hero Mike Dillon and New Orleans funky drummer/beat scientist Stanton Moore, have announced five shows in Colorado this December. The run starts in Telluride, stops in Breckenridge, Ft. Collins and Boulder, and concludes in Denver.

Following two summers of sold-out Kyle’s Brew Fests, Kyle Hollingsworth, keyboardist of The String Cheese Incident, will team up with The Chicago Bluegrass & Blues Festival to bring his charity beer festival on the road, to Chicago, on Saturday, December 10th, before the final Aragon Ballroom performance of The String Cheese Incident’s first full tour in over four years.

SCI Fidelity Records releases a free music Sampler today – available for download at the SCI Fidelity Soundcloud Store and at www.scifidelity.com. A limited number of CD copies will also be available along The String Cheese Incident’s upcoming Fall Tour.

On their upcoming release Let It Grow (Little King Records), Big Daddy Love walks the fine line between roots, Americana, and blue collar rock & roll. Essentially organic in both disposition and composition, Big Daddy Love is a five-piece band with a natural blend of rock, roots and grass that they call ‘Appalachian Rock’.

Fall Like Rain, Martin Sexton’s brand-new EP, finds this artist again asking relevant questions and challenging the status quo. Entertaining us all the while, he continues to call for unity in “One Voice Together” and adds: “In a world of warfare, peace is bad for business . .

I had never seen Elephant Revival before tonight. And sometimes, ignorance is bliss, and the best way to see a live band. Having no expectations or prior convictions of how a show will sound or make you feel is liberating.  After all, music is foremost an innate emotional reaction to rhythms, melodies, and lyrics, and when you have no existing mental model, your mind is forced to make one, which, in its synthesis, is one of the best parts of man’s love affair with music.

When Polytoxic and the Denver Horns come together every year to perform the Last Waltz Revisited, they remind us of the difference between going to a show and going to a SHOW.  Everything was in place- a food drive to support a local charity, a brilliant parade of local talent, non-stop entertainment, and an energy that danced through the ears of everyone nearby.