Long before you and I ever went to see our first concert and even before our parents went to see their first, live music performances appealed to a different sense. In the time of the Greek tragedies, the rise of opera and even in the fledgling years of Broadway, the patron’s vision was the equal… Continue reading Keller Williams | The Egg @ The Heart Theatre | Review
On Thursday, for at least the third time in the last 12 months, the electro-dance-rock duo BoomBox graced our fair city and the Fox Theatre with their pulsing beats and feel-good funk. Guitarist Zion Godchaux and DJ Russ Randolph seem to like it here against the mountains, and it’s lucky for us that they do.… Continue reading BoomBox Shoots Music Video in Boulder
Honestly, I walked into the Boulder Theater this night expecting to hear more of a hip-hop show, which certainly was not the case. Although there were influences of hip hop, and with the keyboardist running a live audio editing software, perhaps Ableton, to me it came off as a classic rock sound. But, I was… Continue reading That’s Some Good Cookin’, Mama!
They’re a posse of Asheville artists who play with the sort of spunk, meticulousness and joy that should be bottled and sold at some obscure roadside stand by a secret guru. The mystical, tribal and always fascinating Toubab Krewe have the ability to stir those emotions that you thought you may have lost, without singing… Continue reading Toubab Krewe | Fox Theater | Boulder, CO | Review
Fat Tuesday, at the Fox, proved to be an evening of soulful celebration, where the positivity and spirit-moving sounds of Lubriphonic and Panjea shined as effervescently as the Madigra beads draped around fans’ necks. Groove-laden powerhouse, Lubriphonic, kicked things off with their heavy-horned colossal sound. The intoxicating pairing of Giles Corey’s whiskey vocals with Cajun… Continue reading Fat Tuesday at the Fox Theater
The anticipation is over as thousands of fans have descended upon the city of Hampton, Virginia to take part in the first three shows since Phish disbanded four years ago. The Hampton Coliseum, a favorite venue among fans, will host this historic reunion as the band begins “phase 2” of their musical conquest. The buzz surrounding… Continue reading Phish Return to the Stage This Weekend
Why do I have to go see live music? Not like to- have to. Why are recorded concerts more frequently played in my house than their studio counterparts? How can 3 hours of human life be changed into a heavenly experience just with the addition of an impassioned performance? Rhetorical perhaps, but valid questions. If… Continue reading Railroad Earth | Old School Freight Train | 2/20/09 | Review
Of all the members of the Grateful Dead, Billy Kreutzmann, really knew how to retire. Hanging out in Hawaii, he showed none of the predilection for road-warrioring into the sunset like his bandmates. Sure he’d play with the boys when they got back together for the full band gigs and after ten years on the… Continue reading Billy Kreutzmann | Fox Theater | 2/21/09 | Review
In the late sixties and early seventies they had Cream and the Jimi Hendrix Experience, but they didn’t quite have in sound and performance what Bill Kreutzmann’s power trio has today. The Grateful Dead drummer was joined on stage Saturday night at the Fox Theater with the Allman Brothers Band’s Oteil Burbridge on bass and… Continue reading Kreutzmann, Burbridge, & Murawski Give Cheers to "Good Times"
When my sister was in high school she was a musical filter for me, as I was her younger brother and was very impressionable. Most of the music I was listening too was coming on mix tapes that artsy-fartsy, private school boys would make for her and she would subsequently hand down to me when… Continue reading Ladysmith Black Mambazo | Burlington, VT | Review
