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Lawn Chair Kings, Erik Nordstrom and writing

They’ve been a band for over 20 years. They’ve played hundreds of shows regionally and banged out half a dozen albums, the majority of those songs of the alternative country and cow-punk var...

DATE: Sep 20, 2023 | CATEGORY: Downtown Lowdown

Where the Dead and Steely Dan meet

Steely Dan and the Grateful Dead are top bands of the rock canon. Two bands in who in their day crafted sounds that drifted well beyond the “rock” world, sounds that still get plenty of airp...

DATE: Sep 14, 2023 | CATEGORY: Downtown Lowdown

Ragged Oak to play iAM MUSIC

Joshua Mendrala is a storyteller. His method of storytelling is through writing, something he’s wanted to do since he was a kid. After banging out poems, short stories and books, he wanted ...

DATE: Sep 7, 2023 | CATEGORY: Downtown Lowdown

Townies bringing punk to Anarchy

Trinidad’s Townies are a punk rock band with one eye on the past and another on the future. This is music for those aging skateboarders who discovered classic punk rock via the “Repo Man” so...

DATE: Aug 31, 2023 | CATEGORY: Downtown Lowdown

Nashville Songs & Stories: Songwriters take the stage

Songwriting is hard. Songwriting can also be profitable. However, not everyone who sits down to write a song is good at it, and even if you are good at it, that doesn’t mean you are going to...

DATE: Aug 24, 2023 | CATEGORY: Downtown Lowdown

Sometimes you just need to go home

Josiah Payne gets homesick. The Pagosa Springs-raised mandolin player set his musical sights for something bigger over a dozen years ago, and the Pacific Northwest was his destination. But s...

DATE: Aug 18, 2023 | CATEGORY: Downtown Lowdown

California Celts to play at Ska

Chris Poland has long and strong ties to Durango. He’s been playing in the area since the 1990s with his band Warsaw Poland Brothers, one of the many ska bands that started rolling through D...

DATE: Aug 10, 2023 | CATEGORY: Downtown Lowdown

Forest Thump duo bonds over love of music

The sky’s the limit with electronic music. With no walls to fit between, no box to confine yourself in and no rules to adhere to, you can do whatever you want. Throw down a techno beat and a...

DATE: Aug 3, 2023 | CATEGORY: Downtown Lowdown

Cha Cha Cha! Latin Jazz Night for Music in the Mountains

Musicians can’t live on classical alone. Sometimes they need to dig into other genres, or at least one that is “close” to classical. Like jazz. Two different styles of music, but also two th...

DATE: Jul 27, 2023 | CATEGORY: Downtown Lowdown

Hymn for Her returns to Dolores

Hymn for Her is a full-blown family affair. What began as the duo of Wayne Waxing and Lucy Tight some 20 years ago in Philadelphia, playing garage rock and roots-punk via Waxing on drums wh...

DATE: Jul 20, 2023 | CATEGORY: Downtown Lowdown

After Midnight Jazz Band plays Buckley Park

Swing band music will always be cool. An inability to see its coolness is, well, not very cool. In this writer’s opinion, it’s still one of the hippest things around, a style of music that l...

DATE: Jul 13, 2023 | CATEGORY: Downtown Lowdown

Elder Grown hosts ‘summer camp’

Local band Elder Grown is hosting a slumber party. Billed as “Elder Grown’s Summer Camp,” it’s a camping event without any of the summer camp high jinks you may remember from the 1979 classi...

DATE: Jul 6, 2023 | CATEGORY: Downtown Lowdown