Music - The Durango Herald

Spotify’s Top 10 most viral tracks

This list represents the most viral tracks on Spotify, based on the number of people who shared it divided by the number who listened to it, from Monday, Feb. 10, to Sunday Feb. 16, via Face...

DATE: Feb 19, 2014 | CATEGORY: Music

Montgomery, Jones voted into Jazz Hall of Fame

NEW YORK – Singer Betty Carter, guitarist Wes Montgomery, drummer Elvin Jones and bandleader Fletcher Henderson have been voted into Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Ertegun Jazz Hall of Fame. ...

DATE: Feb 17, 2014 | CATEGORY: Music

Jamaican reggae star to plant roots at Durango theater

Tarrus Riley’s been topping the Billboard charts for the genre and will be in town this Thursday

DATE: Feb 17, 2014 | CATEGORY: Music

Grandeur, old & new

Post conducts fantastic music variety at concert

DATE: Feb 17, 2014 | CATEGORY: Music

‘Power duo’ El Ten Eleven is not

Californians to play Tuesday at the ACT

DATE: Feb 17, 2014 | CATEGORY: Music

Oscar Concert to honor composers

LOS ANGELES – After 85 years, Oscar is putting on his very first concert, and there are plans to televise future shows worldwide. The motion picture academy will present a live O...

DATE: Feb 13, 2014 | CATEGORY: Music

Watch this Austin folkie perform around Durango – four times

A setting that inspires is better than a setting that entertains any day. Austin, Texas, is a city that can entertain with its countless numbers of bands and venues whose calendar...

DATE: Feb 13, 2014 | CATEGORY: Downtown Lowdown

Top 20 Concert Tours from Pollstar

The Top 20 Concert Tours ranks artists by average box office gross per city and includes the average ticket price for shows in North America. The previous weekâ€™s ranking is in parentheses....

DATE: Feb 13, 2014 | CATEGORY: Music

The return of movie soundtracks

Genres come and go through the years in cinema. Musicals and Westerns now come once in a blue moon. Romcoms and horror have lost a lot of credibility from mediocre material in th...

DATE: Jan 30, 2014 | CATEGORY: Music

DJs will take over Snowdown after tonight’s downtown parade

DJ culture is everywhere. While all-night parties in clubs and warehouses continue in cities worldwide, electronic music also is a choice form of music to serve as the backdrop fo...

DATE: Jan 30, 2014 | CATEGORY: Downtown Lowdown

Simple, complicated Seeger changed American music

Pete Seeger was a complicated man with a simple message: Make the world better, and be kind while doing it. To accomplish these goals, he harnessed hundreds of years of musical tradition in...

DATE: Jan 28, 2014 | CATEGORY: Music

Folk singer, activist Pete Seeger dies in NY

ALBANY, N.Y. – Unable to carry his beloved banjo, Pete Seeger used a different but equally formidable instrument, his voice, to instruct yet another generation of young people how to effect ...

DATE: Jan 28, 2014 | CATEGORY: Music