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Gotta have that funk? It’s at Moe’s

Musical movements often are created out of the sheer necessity to fill a gap in a “scene.” If your “scene” has too much of this and not enough of that, you can do two things: sit ...

DATE: Oct 3, 2013 | CATEGORY: Downtown Lowdown

Town Mountain comes bearing new trophies

I’ve never been one for music award shows. Take the Grammys. The televised Grammys ignore the larger number of Grammys that go to real musicians. And the pop-country crowd seems t...

DATE: Sep 26, 2013 | CATEGORY: Downtown Lowdown

Hardison remembers the really good times

A little more than 40 years ago, a small music revolution started growing in major cities in Europe and the U.S. The sound and the subsequent fashion of its creators shocked many and was mar...

DATE: Sep 19, 2013 | CATEGORY: Downtown Lowdown

Lyons’ siren lures Concert Hall supporters

The college experience, including traditional studies with a multifaceted curriculum to the educational activities outside the classroom, should provide a student a real-life experience. ...

DATE: Sep 12, 2013 | CATEGORY: Downtown Lowdown

Twin bill at Balcony doesn’t miss a Beat

They warned you. When tickets went on sale earlier in the summer for Ska Brewing’s 18th anniversary party with The English Beat, their social media sites recommended you “get tick...

DATE: Sep 5, 2013 | CATEGORY: Downtown Lowdown

Cleaves a good bet for festival dark horse

Stick around Colorado long enough, and you’re bound to take in a festival or two. These weekend-long musical outings offer much: the obvious music, as well as food, little sleep a...

DATE: Aug 28, 2013 | CATEGORY: Downtown Lowdown

Wranglers celebrate 25 years of Gary Cook

It began June 2, 1969, a month and a half before Apollo 11 and four months before the Amazin’ Mets. That’s when the Bar-D Wranglers took the stage for the first time north of Dura...

DATE: Aug 15, 2013 | CATEGORY: Downtown Lowdown

Have happy hour in Buckley Park

Zap Mama, Onye & The Messengers bring world beats

DATE: Aug 12, 2013 | CATEGORY: Music

The ‘Wheel’ keeps Texas swing rolling

Western swing is a music genre that doesn’t account for millions of record sales, yet its contribution to the canon of Americana can’t be denied. It is celebrated by diehard fans ...

DATE: Aug 8, 2013 | CATEGORY: Downtown Lowdown

Thom Chacon is a selective undercard

Since I began writing this column about six years ago, I’ve met loads of musicians and written about most of them. Many I’ve seen, and many I haven’t. As for the ones I haven’t se...

DATE: Aug 1, 2013 | CATEGORY: Downtown Lowdown

McCalla Drops in at Studio & with a midweek musical treat

Multi-instrumentalist Leyla McCalla is a woman who has, in few short years, taken just about every route you can as a professional musician. The Haitian-American who grew up in Ne...

DATE: Jul 29, 2013 | CATEGORY: Music

New venue is for serious music lovers

Changes in how humans get music is changing how we see music, too. Advances in technology have made it so five musicians in five states can send files to make a record, fans can r...

DATE: Jul 25, 2013 | CATEGORY: Downtown Lowdown