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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

Southwest Civic Winds honors Mark Walters

If you studied music at Fort Lewis College chances are you took some courses with the late Dr. Mark Walters. If you’ve ever seen the Southwest Civic Winds perform, Durango’s local community ...

DATE: Nov 15, 2023 | CATEGORY: Downtown Lowdown

Soul and funk with The Quarks

It’s arguably some of the hippest music around. Music from artists like Grant Green or Herbie Hancock, along with other musicians that made up the Bluenote Records roster of the mid to late1...

DATE: Nov 8, 2023 | CATEGORY: Downtown Lowdown

Majik Ham: The kids are all right

They say rock ’n’ roll is a young person’s game. That’s a forever debatable opinion, as The Rolling Stones try to pull if off, succeeding in some fans’ opinions, but that success is too, deb...

DATE: Nov 1, 2023 | CATEGORY: Downtown Lowdown

Getting down to the ‘Nitty Gritty’

Sometimes all you need to do is ask. Next thing you know, you’ve got loads of musicians saying “yes” to your question, and you’re on your way to recording one of the most influential bluegra...

DATE: Oct 25, 2023 | CATEGORY: Downtown Lowdown