Every Thursday at Cervantes Other Side in Denver, CO they feature a bluegrass night. On this night, Joseph James Brewing Company featured this week’s Grass For That Ass jam. This weekly tradition down in the Five Points section of this musical city has become a weekly occurrence for some of the bluegrass dedicated. On this… Continue reading Daniella Katzir Band, Old Salt Union, & Friends Without Benefits
The Haunted Windchimes took to the studio with Guitarist/Mandolinist/Producer Chandler Pratt, best known for his work with The Good Luck Thrift Store Outfit, to record their 6th album, an LP on their own label Blank Tape Records. Rattle Your Bones offered an opportunity for the talented quartet from Pueblo, CO to release another fine example… Continue reading Haunted Windchimes | Rattle Your Bones
The other day I heard a startling statistic – over 200 people move to Austin every day. As a native Austinite, this doesn’t rattle me in any way… it just gives me a sense of unease for the future of my city. There’s a reason that droves of people are attracted enough to this energy… Continue reading Nathaniel Rateliff | Stubbs | Austin, Texas
Albert Castiglia [pronounced ka – steel – ya] was born in New York and raised in Miami since he was 5. He started taking guitar lessons at the age of 12. He found a passion for playing the guitar and has been perfecting his craft ever since. Castiglia got his first big break when legendary… Continue reading Albert Castiglia | Big Dog | Review
Canadian songsmith-troubadour Tom Wilson has been a well known musician throughout Canada, Europe and many other parts of the world for along time. But he is largely a best kept secret to his southern neighbors in the states. I predict this is going to change. Having earned a popular reputation as a founding member of… Continue reading America, it time to know LeE HARVeY OsMOND
“Oh man, Bill Withers, oooh, he just gets me all over, you know?” a middle-aged woman I’d never met revealed to me as we waited for The New Stew to take the stage last night. In just the second night of their limited run playing Withers‘ classic 1973 album, Live at Carnegie Hall, it was… Continue reading The New Stew | Philadelphia, PA | Review
It was a double whammy of new record releases at the Great American Music Hall for the Dead Winter Carpenters and The Sam Chase and the Untraditional. Both bands dropped highly anticipated new albums, but welcomed Marty O’Reilly and the Old Soul Orchestra to get the night going. I had yet to see Marty O’Reilly… Continue reading The Sam Chase | GAMH | 4/29/16 | Review
The Grateful Dead‘s legendary 1977 Spring Tour stands as a pinnacle in their storied career. Nestled in the Northeast, I was fortunate to attend the second show of this historic journey, held in Springfield on April 23rd. The experience was nothing short of transcendental; witnessing the band in peak performance reaffirmed their unparalleled musical prowess.… Continue reading A Look Back: Grateful Dead | May 7th, 1977
The first night of this three-night Dark Star Orchestra run at the Boulder Theater was powerful, exciting, and fun. They played the first night of Red Rocks 1978, which was on August 30th, and it featured the first time ever played “’I Need a Miracle,” “Stagger Lee,” and “If I Had the World to Give.”… Continue reading Dark Star Orchestra | Boulder Theater | '16
On their third album City Painted Gold, San Francisco string-benders The Brothers Comatose have deepened their rocking acoustic prowess to new heights. The musical comradery between banjo and guitar-slinging brothers Alex and Ben Morrison renders authentic each time they step onstage. In a matter of five years the Brothers, backed by Gio Bendetti (bass), Philip… Continue reading The Brothers Comatose | City Painted Gold
