It was a pretty quiet night on the hill in Boulder, CO at the Fox Theater, even though it was the beginning of the 1st annual Boulder Blues and Roots Summit Festival. This festival featured early shows at the Boulder Theater with guests like Leon Russell and Sheryl Crow, and concluded with late night shows… Continue reading Blues & Roots: Vieux Farka Toure w/ William Elliott Whitmore
Kenneth Pattengale & Joey Ryan of Milk Carton Kids have great talent and passion behind their soulful guitar picking and melodramatic story telling. Their songs remind you of a cool summer night relaxing under the stars while enjoying the company of your loved one. This duo has struck a chord with their “coming-of-age” bluegrass acoustic… Continue reading Wittingly Humorous & Teary-Eyed Emotions | The Milk Carton Kids
The Kuti family has made some of my favorite music for a long time now, and I am constantly amazed by how many people are unaware of not only Femi’s music, but his legendary father Fela’s music as well. The reason why I have noticed sounds silly, but I named my two kittens Fela and… Continue reading Femi Kuti's Positive Force in Boulder
I think it goes without saying that music, and experiencing a wide variety of it, is an important part of how I rate the quality of my life. There have been a number of artists and bands over the years that have caught my attention and captivation.. In each instance, the music was the beginning… Continue reading Kentucky Lasagne, Social Awareness, and a Master's Clinic on the Cello: Ben Sollee
Brooklyn’s Here We Go Magic led a Denver audience through a dream on Thursday night at the Larimer Lounge. Complete with gentle, spacey, sometimes poppy harmonies coming from seemingly distant sonic corners and joining up with layers of guitars, synth and drums; they achieved a certain density that rivals that of veterans like The Verve… Continue reading Here We Go Magic @ Larimer Lounge | 5/5/11 | Review
Hannah Field and her bongo bangin’ band recently released a fun new concept CD: music to be paired with food. Along with the CD comes a small vegan cookbook. To sample Hannah’s creative project I had some hungry music students over for dinner and jams. I picked a couple of Hannah’s many recipes to prepare,… Continue reading Music for the Soul and Stomach…
Spring is in full swing, and the music scene is bursting with options. There are so many tour announcements that resurface like the tulips in one’s garden, so there must be a way to stand out amongst all of the others. I am by no mean saying that world famous British DJ Simon Posford does… Continue reading The Shpongletron Experience @ Boulder Theater
The Bridge, winding down from their April tour, played with Strange Arrangement, building up for their summer tour, at Martyr’s in Chicago on 4-30-2011. Next time Strange Arrangement will play the Chicago crowd it will be at sunny hot Summer Camp Sunday. On the eve of this May Day, it was that sipping daiquiris, first… Continue reading The Bridge & Strange Arrangement | 4/30/11 | Review
The band formerly known as 50 Cent Haircut who, after some confusion with a particular rapper sharing two-thirds of the same name, decided a change would be beneficial, now enter the world and hopefully its consciousness as Patrolled By Radar, and bring with them a fantastically sublime new album Be Happy. Steeped in a multitude… Continue reading Patrolled By Radar: Be Happy | Review
Purposefully unclassifiable and borrowing from predecessors such as Pink Floyd, The Flaming Lips and, as odd as it may appear, Neil Young, Younger Brother’s latest, entitled Vaccine, is a sure fire testament to the heights the band will achieve in the coming months and hopefully years. Younger Brother, a collective brainchild of artists Simon Posford,… Continue reading Younger Brother | Vaccine | Review
