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Records of the Year Part 1: Nos. 10 to six

The bulk of 2020’s forced isolation left many with nothing to do but bake bread, do push-ups and listen to music. Or perhaps that is what your 2019 and every year before was like. ...

DATE: Dec 10, 2020 | CATEGORY: Downtown Lowdown

(DJ)-Calvin lays down funky beats

Local musician Jesse Ogle’s new project, (DJ)-Calvin, finds the musician stepping into new roles. Known locally and regionally as the bass player in J Calvin and Hello Dollface, ...

DATE: Dec 3, 2020 | CATEGORY: Downtown Lowdown

Dale ‘X’ Allen works in nitro-twang

2021 should be flooded with music. A deluge, surge, torrent, downpour or whatever word you want to use for the inundation that will hopefully come soon after a coronavirus vaccine has made i...

DATE: Nov 26, 2020 | CATEGORY: Downtown Lowdown

Bowregard and the Sidecar Virtual Concert Series

Local bluegrass and roots trio Stillhouse Junkies are lifting the virtual concert to a new level. Taking on the role as concert promoters and producers in addition to performers,...

DATE: Nov 19, 2020 | CATEGORY: Downtown Lowdown

Thom Chacon takes music international

Italy digs on the music of local singer-songwriter Thom Chacon. He’s one of many roots/folk/Americana musicians who sells just as many, if not more, records outside America. Chat...

DATE: Nov 12, 2020 | CATEGORY: Downtown Lowdown

Reggae musician Nick Hagglof blazing his own trail

Local musician Nick Hagglof is creating a new style of reggae music. And while he’s at it, he’s starting a new record label that is releasing numerous singles along with his forthcoming EP, ...

DATE: Nov 5, 2020 | CATEGORY: Downtown Lowdown

P.J. Moon ready to drop new album

The plan was to put out a four-song EP. However, time away from the stage allowed for more time to write, and that forthcoming EP from local rock band P.J. Moon and The Swappers turned into ...

DATE: Oct 29, 2020 | CATEGORY: Downtown Lowdown

Galloway a jack-of-all-trades

After 30-some years in the music business, Benny “Burle” Galloway knows the right and wrong way to do things. The one-time Durango local has kicked around the Colorado jam-grass ...

DATE: Oct 22, 2020 | CATEGORY: Downtown Lowdown

Aftergrass reunites for a benefit show

It’s safe to say that local rock band Aftergrass never really broke up. Yet since going on an indefinite hiatus about eight years ago, the shows have been few and far between. Th...

DATE: Oct 15, 2020 | CATEGORY: Downtown Lowdown

Cody Tinnin records solo debut album ‘Perennial’ the old-fashioned way

Local musician Cody Tinnin digs the vintage. The bass player of local roots-bluegrass trio Stillhouse Junkies is into old clothes and old music, things that were created long before he was b...

DATE: Oct 8, 2020 | CATEGORY: Downtown Lowdown

Suzanne Vega virtual show benefits Concert Hall

New York City is certainly not what it used to be. Long gone is the excessive graffiti, burnt out buildings in the Lower East Side, “The Warriors” and The Baseball Furies, replaced by condos...

DATE: Oct 1, 2020 | CATEGORY: Downtown Lowdown

Thom Rader’s new album a varied palette

Many professional musicians have traveled the same musical path to get to their current place. It’s a well-worn trail that for some began with a forced lesson, in most cases pian...

DATE: Sep 24, 2020 | CATEGORY: Downtown Lowdown