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Songwriters Showcase features Anthony D’Amato and Thom Chacon

It wasn’t hard to convince Anthony D’Amato to play a local concert. The New York City-based D’Amato has grown to love the Southwest and Durango in particular, coming to the area as a kid wit...

DATE: Feb 7, 2024 | CATEGORY: Downtown Lowdown

Andy Thorn’s wild ride

Andy Thorn’s banjo has taken him to some incredible places. There’s the typical places you’d find someone with a banjo, like stages, of which he’s stood and played the banjo with the bands ...

DATE: Jan 31, 2024 | CATEGORY: Downtown Lowdown

Garrett Young Collective releases live album

It was an opening set that has now been turned into a full audio and video package. When The Garrett Young Collective opened for The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band on July 19 at the I-Bar Ranch in G...

DATE: Jan 24, 2024 | CATEGORY: Downtown Lowdown

La La Bones releases ‘Bones Hit the Ground’

Local bluegrass band La La Bones are into saving their earnings. Choosing not to pay themselves post-gig, they don’t invest money in a ton of merch, tour planning or other extracurricular ba...

DATE: Jan 17, 2024 | CATEGORY: Downtown Lowdown

Evanoff brings Front Range electro-jam

It was a night at Red Rocks that opened up J.J. Evanoff’s mind to the audio blend of electronic and rock music. He was a teenager who was getting into the guitar, loving the playing of Pete ...

DATE: Jan 10, 2024 | CATEGORY: Downtown Lowdown

Lo-fi indie rock with Loma Roses

Sometimes they make music, sometimes they make home décor. That’s the mode for Jesse and Jaci Crawford: The couple’s day job is making furniture and candles under the name Southwest Handmade...

DATE: Jan 3, 2024 | CATEGORY: Downtown Lowdown

The method of Crystal Method

Crystal Method formed in a grocery store. It was the early 1990s, and Ken Jordan and Scott Kirkland both had more than a casual interest in music. Kirkland’s interest stemmed from the music ...

DATE: Dec 27, 2023 | CATEGORY: Downtown Lowdown

Desert Child drops new record

Local band Desert Child has a new record ready for the new year. “Hesperus,” has been in the making for the last year, a highly anticipated release from a Durango band that has been playing ...

DATE: Dec 20, 2023 | CATEGORY: Downtown Lowdown

Favorite records of 2023

Welcome to the tradition listing off some favorite records of the year, an annual walk through a score of rock, jazz and then some that served as a favorite soundtrack of the last 12 months....

DATE: Dec 13, 2023 | CATEGORY: Downtown Lowdown

Apollo Suns is a collective ‘band that jams’

They’re “kind of” a jam band. Like Frank Zappa or Return to Forever are “kind of” jam bands. But for the jam-band naysayers don’t let that descriptor dissuade you from the Canadian instrumen...

DATE: Dec 7, 2023 | CATEGORY: Downtown Lowdown

Wood Belly explores new sounds

Wood Belly is band with a changing sound. Born in 2015 along Colorado’s Front Range as a bluegrass band, they traveled the traditional route many string bands have trekked, a route of open ...

DATE: Nov 29, 2023 | CATEGORY: Downtown Lowdown

Holiday songs can be fun

December holiday music can be obnoxious. Especially when the canned music that scores your grocery and other shopping experiences starts flooding your ears sometime around Halloween, with ma...

DATE: Nov 22, 2023 | CATEGORY: Downtown Lowdown