Toronto based Dinosaur Bones released their first full length album, My Divider on March 8th. Reasonably subtle, it presents itself without a whole lot of pushiness and allows the listener to take their time sifting through and discovering its fullness and vast idiosyncrasies at leisurely pace. It is full of excellent guitar and keyboard layering… Continue reading Dinosaur Bones | My Divider | Review
On April 5th, New York City based, multi-ethnic reggae outfit Easy Star All Stars will release their first full length record of original material entitled First Light. Famous for their reggae reworkings of Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon, Radiohead’s OK Computer, and Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band by The Beatles, First Light… Continue reading Easy Star All Star | Release First Light | Review
On a tour supporting this year’s release Go Go Boots, beginning on February 16th in Pennsylvania, the Drive-By Truckers have played a merciless schedule of nineteen dates that ended with a two night run at the Ogden Theater in Denver on Saturday. Guitarist and vocalist Patterson Hood, despite making mention of his needing rest and… Continue reading Drive-By Truckers | Ogden Theater | 3/18/2011
The audience was drenched in motherland soul on Wednesday night at the Boulder Theater as Habib Koite, Oliver Mtukudzi and Afel Bocoum came together on one stage to perform an evening of beautiful, traditional African folk music. The three artists took the stage together for the opening set of songs joined by a fourth guitarist,… Continue reading Acoustic Africa | Boulder Theater | 3.16.2011
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
