There was a time when the singer/songwriter troubadour type of music seemed to be a dying breed. Then, somehow over the last couple decades it seems like there has been a resurgence of interest in just great songs, delivered with passion. That’s what this set really is. Sure, it has some range of musical style,… Continue reading Matthew Genovese | Chasing the Sun | New Music Review
At the Fox Theatre, local bands have rocked the stage for twenty-two years, and they’re in good company. The Meters played the inaugural show back in 1992. Phish and the String Cheese Incident won over early crowds while jamming at The Fox. Snoop Dogg has a painting inside that’s nearly as tall as he is.… Continue reading 22nd Fox Anniversary Hometown SuperJam | Review/Photos
Commercial success is a tough concept to toy with for many bands in their breakthrough moment. How do you compromise your stylistic integrity and what you want to play versus what a major record label or mainstream audiences are thought to expect out of pop music? It ruins the authenticity of certain bands willing to… Continue reading Los Lobos | Fox Theater | Boulder, CO | 3/29/2014 | Review
The Grateful Dead were always an unnecessarily modest group of musicians. Milestones, anniversaries, career-spanning accomplishments were underplayed by guitarist and vocalist Jerry Garcia in particular, who always was hesitant to accept hype around the group’s resurgence in mainstream popularity in the mid-1980s. After all, the group had been traveling nonstop rigorously nationally and worldwide since… Continue reading Dark Star Orchestra | Boulder Theater | 3/28/2014 | Review
I have been going to shows regularly for over 15 years. Somewhere along the line, I came to understand that live music is my adopted religion and venues of great renown are, collectively, my house of worship. Being a Deadhead, in particular, is a sect onto itself. Until recently, I only understood this spiritual manifestation… Continue reading Dark Star Orchestra | Boulder Theater | 3/29/2014 | Review
There is no doubt in Colorado about how much the members of the Disco Biscuits love to come to Boulder. In fact, they have vehemently expressed their love for the area at every show for the last several years. You guys should all move here already. It’s okay, we all do it. None the less,… Continue reading Conspirator Rages the Fox Again | Review & Photos
To most of us who really pay attention to the current state of music and journalism, it comes as no surprise when I say that the quality and quantity of genuinely good music news and coverage coming out of the major media outlets has diminished substantially over the last decade or more. They tend to… Continue reading The 10 Best Albums Coming Out in 2014
F.U….N.K. But seriously, funk. It was the theme of late night at The Fox Theatre, Monday, March 17th. Coming all the way from Baltimore, Maryland, we had the honor of spending a night with Pigeons Playing Ping Pong on their twenty-five day tour, one of the funkiest, psychedelic, up and coming jam bands coming through… Continue reading Pigeons Playing Ping Pong | Fox Theater | St Patty's Day | Review
Just as the full moon is infiltrating its way into the Bay Area, casting an illuminating white light over the Fillmore…Peeps await for the epic improvisational elements that seem to have a ripple effect from an eclectic group who derived their name from Jack Kerouac‘s short story, “October In The Rain”. Painting shades of bluegrass,… Continue reading Railroad Earth | Fillmore | S.F., CA | 3/15/14
Most folks going out to see live music generally seek a familiar favorite band, or at the very least a certain style or genre implied. Rarely can an act draw interest based on anything without these qualities. Matt Butler‘s Everyone Orchestra is the exception. Butler is a fantastic multi-instrumentalist (primarily a drummer) who decided to… Continue reading Everyone Orchestra | Fox Theatre | 3/22/14
