Archive: 2020

Over the course of two years spent out on the road, tirelessly playing show after show, Nathan Kalish cultivated a collection of story songs grown from not only his own life experiences but also incorporating the experiences of the people he encountered along the way. His 10th album, the self-produced Songs for Nobody (out 4/10), […]

Acclaimed Grammy-winning bassist, composer and bandleader Ben Williams is perhaps best known for his work in the jazz world, specifically as the longtime bassist of guitarist Pat Metheny’s Unity Band. Williams has racked up a long list of accomplishments within this world, winning awards and performing with the likes of Wynton Marsalis, George Benson, Maxwell, […]

Mother Yeti is a duo from Moscow, Idaho that describes its sound as “experimental rock”. Experimental is a term that sometimes scares music fans away because they equate experimental with weird. That’s not necessarily incorrect, but it does make the assumption that weird is undesirable. If you keep an open mind, you might be pleasantly […]

Introducing their new songs from Up and Rolling, the North Mississippi Allstars brought their blues-influenced southern rock to the Teragram Ballroom in Los Angeles on February 13, 2020.  Luther and Cody Dickinson have been the heart of that band, who have been together for over 20 years. The brothers’ deep roots in hill country blues […]

Ani DiFranco has earned a long list of accomplishments that are described as a folk-punk-indie rock singer, one-woman show, poet, and feminist entrepreneur. She released her memoir, No Walls in a Recurring Dream, last May. The memoir covers how her career came to pass and how she helped launch a whole new generation of feminism […]

The recently reunited Oysterhead (Stewart Copeland, Trey Anastasio, Les Claypool) visited Broomfield CO’s 1st Bank Center for the second of two sold-out shows on 2/15/20. Photos by Todd Radunsky

This President’s Day, Low Cut Connie release a protest song and video for “Look What They Did,” their first release of new music since 2018’s acclaimed Dirty Pictures (Part 2). On the song and accompanying video, frontman and songwriter Adam Weiner explores the effect Donald Trump had on Atlantic City almost 40 years after Bruce […]

Jazz virtuoso Stephen Bruner aka Thundercat has released “Dragonball Durag”, the second single from It Is What It Is, out April 3rd on Brainfeeder. The new track, produced by Thunder and Flying Lotus, encapsulates his love of humour in music and his passion for the cult Japanese animé Dragon Ball Z.  “I have a Dragon Ball tattoo… it runs everything. There is […]

Fresh off a successful two-night comeback run with the neo-psychedelia supergroup Oysterhead, Phish guitarist Trey Anastasio joined Dave Matthews & Tim Reynolds onstage at the Moon Palace Hotel in Riviera Maya, Mexico on February 16th to help deliver a pair of Phish classics, “Bathtub Gin” & “Waste”. Anastasio’s appearance marks the first time he has […]

For Kellen of Troy, the concept of pop honors the way the world works in real-time. As this multi-talented singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist knows, creating finely crafted songs that are personal and political keeps alive a tradition that stretches from The Beatles, Randy Newman, and Paul Simon to Kurt Cobain to Father John Misty. Kellen […]

Amidst the turbulence of modern society and the political climate in America, it is often difficult to see the role that music plays. Portland singer-songwriter Brian Granse has pondered this question throughout his career as an artist, which has carried him through a wide array of lifestyles linked by a common theme: From growing up […]

Every year around the time of Mardi Gras, Louisiana musicians tend to hit the road. Besides bringing the festivities to their fans, it serves as an opportune time to remind people what makes Louisiana’s musical culture so special. It was certainly a factor in the co-headlining tour of Marcia Ball and Sonny Landreth, who passed […]

The New Riders Of The Purple Sage were far more than just a mere offshoot of the Grateful Dead. During the folk surge of the late Sixties, the latter band’s titular leader, Jerry Garcia, initially worked and learned with future NRPS chief songwriter John “Marmaduke” Dawson (”Friend of the Devil” is their most notable collaboration). […]

Brandi Carlile helped break in the new Minneapolis Fillmore on February 14th- in the third of three sold-out shows at the new Live Nation venue. Carlile performed an acoustic performance accompanied only by “the Twins,” identical brothers Phil and Tim Hanseroth, her bassist and guitarist for 20 years and performed a career-spanning set covering all […]

The Slow Rush, the fourth studio album from Tame Impala, finds the Australian artist further exploring the electronic and dance styles from 2015’s Currents. In the decade since his debut album, Kevin Parker has steadily and constantly evolved his psychedelic style, with the guitar-based psych-rock of InnerSpeaker long gone in favor of slow-burning dance music. […]

I kicked off the AJJ show at Asheville, NC’s notorious Grey Eagle on February 7th by inadvertently insulting the opening act, Emperor X. My sidekick and I got there a little later than I’d hoped, and the venue was already packed just before showtime — more populated than I’d ever seen it, in fact, even […]

There have been many movies that have had memorable slots scenes, and in many of them, they end with someone yelling “jackpot!” It is always nice to see movies where a person’s life is changed by a simple pull of the slots handle.  Slots jackpots happen all of the time, and movies have captured the […]

“Good things come to those who wait.” Oysterhead, the three-piece supergroup featuring Les Claypool (Primus), Stewart Copeland (The Police) and Trey Anastasio (Phish), proved that axiom’s viability last night in Broomfield, CO during their first live show since a one-off performance at the 2006 Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival. The trio wasted no time picking […]