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From morning jams to a bona fide band: Running Out of Road

Sometimes your day job gives way to more artistic endeavors. Take, for example, the formation of a band. Perhaps you’re a teacher, and you host an afternoon string club for studen...

DATE: Jan 16, 2014 | CATEGORY: Downtown Lowdown

Local musicians will be busy with plans for new offerings in 2014

I’m using this first column of the new year to give a collective pat on the back to our local musicians, producers, engineers and studio owners. As much as I look forward to a lar...

DATE: Jan 2, 2014 | CATEGORY: Downtown Lowdown

This won’t be your average New Year’s Eve night out

Midweek New Year will still enliven downtown tonight

DATE: Dec 30, 2013 | CATEGORY: Music

N.C. band Toubab Krewe finds inspiration from West Africa

American music festivals have their share of First World problems. Beer sponsors that aren’t PBR; idiots who hold their phones up so their friends on the other end can hear a muff...

DATE: Dec 26, 2013 | CATEGORY: Downtown Lowdown

Sugar Thieves steal into town for one night at Derailed Saloon

Americana is one of the most misused terms in music. Often lumped into folk, bluegrass and anything related to country, be it outlaw, alternative or the God-awful new country, it’...

DATE: Dec 19, 2013 | CATEGORY: Downtown Lowdown

Do you hear what I hear? One man’s top 10 CDs of the year

Another year comes to an end, and another music snob churns out a best-of list. These are always hard. I feel like midway through the year I’m not really liking eight releases out...

DATE: Dec 12, 2013 | CATEGORY: Downtown Lowdown

Photographer creates bedroom community in latest exhibit

Photographer McCarson Jones could make models out of all of us. Her latest exhibit of photographs, titled “Underpinnings,” is a series featuring 35 different women. They’re not mo...

DATE: Dec 5, 2013 | CATEGORY: Visual Arts

Electronic musicians have jam-band roots

When Colorado’s String Cheese Incident took a short hiatus half a dozen years ago, the break was bound to give birth to new productivity from band members with newly found free time. ...

DATE: Nov 28, 2013 | CATEGORY: Downtown Lowdown

Old is new for Durango’s Lawn Chair Kings

Durango’s Lawn Chair Kings are approaching 14 years together as a band. What began as a trio in the year 2000 has wavered between trio and quartet; fourth members have been guitar...

DATE: Nov 21, 2013 | CATEGORY: Downtown Lowdown

Clinton captains the Mothership to Sky Ute Casino

The musical works of George Clinton owe as much to American rock music and Jimi Hendrix as it does to the funk and soul sound of James Brown. Both genres clearly are present in th...

DATE: Nov 14, 2013 | CATEGORY: Downtown Lowdown

Intrastate favorites return to The Hank

Colorado bluegrass musicians are a hearty folk. They’re a voluminous bunch who try to live up to a rich history, steeped in the tradition of American music dating back to the 1940...

DATE: Nov 7, 2013 | CATEGORY: Downtown Lowdown

From the ‘Prairie’ to the mountains

Radio’s Robin and Linda Williams to return to Durango for concert

DATE: Nov 4, 2013 | CATEGORY: Music