St. Patrick’s Day is celebrated more in the city of Chicago than in Dublin Ireland. That’s the way it felt Saturday March 12, 2011 when a triple bill of Mountain Sprout, J Roddy Walston & the Business, and Great American Taxi rolled into the Double Door Chicago. Unfortunately, I missed the short set of Mountain… Continue reading Great American Taxi @ Double Door | Chicago, IL
It was a clash of the bass guitar titans Saturday night at the Boulder Theater. A double bill of the Victor Wooten Band and the Stanley Clarke Band was a jazz extravaganza showcasing two generations of innovative bass masters together under one roof. From his early days with Bela Fleck and the Flecktones, Victor Wooten… Continue reading Stanley Clarke & Victor Wooten | Boulder Theater
Thursday was a tough night for a jam band to play a show on the Front Range in Colorado. The String Cheese Incident were playing the first of a three night run at the 1st Bank Center in Broomfield and no doubt sucked up a lot of the potential concert-going hippie crowd. But a thin… Continue reading The Bridge at Hodi’s Half Note | 3/10/11
Mash-up master Gregg Gillis, aka Girl Talk, didn’t give a concert last night at the Ogden Theater in Denver, he threw a party. Complete with balloons, confetti, a machine that blew streams of toilet paper through the air, and his own intricate brand of generations of multi-genre beats, hooks and lyrics blended together, he served… Continue reading Girl Talk | Ogden Theater | 3/11/11 | Review & Photos
It was an evening of indie rock Saturday at the Fox. Tapes ‘n Tapes, with support from Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr. and Fellow Citizens all put in a full nights work taking the audience on a ride through effects-laden harmonies, sonic shoe-gazing and urgent power pop. The three groups collectively played one of the best… Continue reading Tapes ‘n Tapes Beat the Blogs: Live at the Fox
Jeff Austin is a shoo-in for the Most Animated Mandolin Player of the year award. There’s no doubt he’d win, if and when such an award came to be. Whether echoing guitarist Nick Forster’s vocals on “Nine Pound Hammer” or tearing through the chords and picking of Yonder Mountain String Band classics, he’s a head… Continue reading Jeff Austin & Friends Back Home in Boulder
A Los Angeles gangster rapper turned Hollywood icon. Ice Cube (born O’Shea Jackson) — founding member of N.W.A.—”the world’s most dangerous group,” stopped in Colorado for the second night of his 2011 cross-country tour. Fans and critics wondered if Cube could still pull off a live show, or if he’d gravitated too far from his… Continue reading Reppin’ the West: Ice Cube Takes Boulder
Electronic music duo BoomBox dropped the bomb dance party on a sold out crowd at the Fox Theater on Friday night. This was one stop in an eight show assault the group led through Colorado this past week. Fans turned out ready to get their groove on, many in their finest disco garb, all surely… Continue reading BoomBox Rocks the Fox – 2/25/2011
The latest release from the Band of Heathens shows the group taking things further in terms of versatility of style, and demonstrating a certain maturity in songwriting and production. Top Hat Crown & the Clapmaster’s Son is a refined melding of the five member’s individual talents, and a step into some new territory. Not to… Continue reading Band of Heathens | Top Hat Crown & the Clapmaster's Son | Review
On a raw, soggy Wednesday night, an army of San Franciscans donning thick cardigans and even thicker horn rimmed glasses peruse Café de Nord’s intricate wainscoting and hand carved mahogany bar as The Love Language plugs in. Along with orchestral Dan Deacon and eclectic veterans Yo La Tango, Love Language parade into town for SF’s… Continue reading The Love Language Explodes with Seductive, Bleeding-Heart Rock
