Music - The Durango Herald

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

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 week's ranking is in parentheses. T...

DATE: Dec 12, 2013 | CATEGORY: Music

Spotify’s Top 10 most streamed tracks

The following list represents the top streamed tracks on Spotify from Dec. 2 to Dec. 8: UNITED STATES 1. Eminem, “The Monster ft. Rihanna” (Aftermath Records) ...

DATE: Dec 12, 2013 | CATEGORY: Music

Early birds get the tunes

DATE: Dec 9, 2013 | CATEGORY: Music

Subjects of ‘20 Feet’ to sing anthem at Rose Bowl

LOS ANGELES – On New Year’s Day, they’ll finally travel that last 20 feet. Merry Clayton, Lisa Fischer, Judith Hill and Darlene Love – the principal subjects of the documentary fi...

DATE: Dec 9, 2013 | CATEGORY: Music

Choral Society gets in the spirit with ‘Family Christmas’ concert

About 120 singers from the three Durango Choral Society choirs and members of the Durango Jazz Combo are warming up for Sunday’s performance of “A Traditional Family Christmas” at the Commun...

DATE: Dec 5, 2013 | CATEGORY: Music

Oops, she did it again: Spears fails on new album

Britney Spears, “Britney Jean” (RCA Records) You want to release a good album? You better work harder, chick. A lot harder. Britney Spears’ latest release, “...

DATE: Dec 3, 2013 | CATEGORY: Music

Jazz percussionists to revisit past

Fort Lewis players to take stage tonight

DATE: Dec 2, 2013 | CATEGORY: Music

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

Toy company sues Beastie Boys over ‘Girls’ song

SAN FRANCISCO – A Northern California toy company is fighting for its right to parody a popular Beastie Boys song. Oakland-based GoldieBlox filed a lawsuit in federal court seekin...

DATE: Nov 26, 2013 | CATEGORY: Music