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Westword Music Showcase 2013 local lineup

All right, so we've already tantalized you with the acts that are performing on the main stage this year at the Westword Music Showcase (Dada Life, Trampled by Turtles, P.O.S., Nick Waterhouse, the Mowgli's, the Colorado Symphony with Nathaniel Rateliff and Otis Taylor, Hunter Hunted and My Body Sin ... More >>

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My World Is Gone Telarc

Weekend's best live bets: the Fray, the Lumineers, Leftover Salmon, Drake and more

Welcome to the weekend! The sun's hiding this morning and rain's in the forecast for the next few days, but even that can't dampen spirits today. The Nuggets destroyed the Lakers last night, and you've got another full slate of local goodness on tap this weekend: Tonight the Fray kicks off a two-nig ... More >>

Otis Taylor, Nathaniel Rateliff, Leftover Salmon, Hopsin and more on tap this weekend

It's another big weekend for music on the Front Range. Tonight, Otis Taylor kicks off his Trance Blues Festival, which runs from this evening through Sunday and is spread across a variety of venues in Boulder. Elsewhere, Nathaniel Rateliff's hosting his annual holiday soiree at the Gothic with stack ... More >>

Jam together during the holidays at Otis Taylor's Trance Blues Festival

Otis Taylor's second annual Trance Blues Festival slated for Thanksgiving weekend

Len Irish​Move over, tryptophan: Thanksgiving has found a much better bedfellow, one that will put you in a trance but won't necessarily leave you listless, laying on the couch. Behold Otis Taylor's Trance Blues Jam Festival, featuring Otis Taylor, of course, along with "Steady Rollin" Bob Mar ... More >>

Curious Theatre announces this year's crop of celebrities for Denver Stories

Otis Taylor may or may not be one of them.​In its five years of existence so far, the Curious Theatre Company has lured some pretty prodigious figures into its annual Denver Stories production, where it pairs local celebrities with playwrights and has them produce autobiographical short plays; ... More >>

Otis Taylor to give trance blues workshop

​One of the finest blues players to come of out of these parts, Otis Taylor has won blues album of the year awards from Downbeat for four of his albums, and he's jammed with Jimi Hendrix, Muddy Waters, Buddy Guy and many other legendary players. Over the years, he's mastered a sparse and hypno ... More >>

Astrophagus, Wentworth Kersey and Houses got spins this past week on local radio. See who else got played.

​Here what the area's local-centric specialty radio shows were spinning this week. We're currently tracking the playlists a number of different shows including, Radio 1190's Local Shakedown, KTCL's Locals Only, KBCO's Local Edition*, The Colorado Sound, which originates at KRFC and is re-broad ... More >>

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Clovis People, Vol. 3
Telarc International

Snake Rattle Rattle Snake, Hello Kavita and Trace Bundy got spins on local radio this week. See who else got love.

​Here what the area's local-centric specialty radio shows were spinning this week. We're currently tracking the playlists a number of different shows including, Radio 1190's Local Shakedown*, KTCL's Locals Only, KBCO's Local Edition, The Colorado Sound, which originates at KRFC and is re-broad ... More >>

TaunTaun, Elephant Revival, Something Underground get spins on local radio this week. See who else got love.

​Here what the area's local-centric specialty radio shows were spinning this week. We're currently tracking the playlists a number of different shows including, Radio 1190's Local Shakedown*, KTCL's Locals Only, KBCO's Local Edition, The Colorado Sound, which originates at KRFC and is re-broad ... More >>

Heavy Rotation, our top spins for the week of January 25, 2010

​As music critics -- and people who generally think about, talk about, listen to and make music -- the most common question we get asked (and ask each other, for that matter) is, "What are you listening to right now?" The pervasiveness of this query is precisely what inspired Heavy Rotation. ... More >>

Dialed In: This week's local music radio playlists

​Here what the area's local-centric specialty radio shows were spinning this week. We're currently tracking the playlists a number of different shows, including Radio 1190's Local Shakedown*, KTCL's Locals Only, 99.5 the Mountain's Homegrown Show*, the Colorado Sound, which originates at KRFC ... More >>

The Antlers top seller at Albums on the Hill

​Brooklyn's the Antlers grabbed the top spot at Albums on the Hill with Hospice, while Lyle Lovett's latest effort, Natural Forces, came in at number two for the week ending January 3. Lhasa's self-titled album, Neko Case's Middle Cyclone and Otis Taylor's Pentatonic Wars and Love Songs rounded ou ... More >>

Moovers and Shakers rounds up our favorite local releases of the year

Heavy Rotation, our top spins for the week of December 1, 2009

​As music critics -- and people who generally think about, talk about, listen to and make music -- the most common question we get asked (and ask each other, for that matter) is, "What are you listening to right now?" The pervasiveness of this query is precisely what inspired Heavy Rotation. For t ... More >>

Otis Taylor's latest record earns praise in Spin

​It's not unusual to read a review of Otis Taylor and see the words bluesman. In fact, it's as about as commonplace as reading a piece on the Broncos during the '90s and seeing the name John Elway -- the two are virtually synonymous. That said, it was somewhat refreshing to come across a review of ... More >>

The Westword.com blog shortcut, August 13 edition

Back when punks were punks....​Set the Waybac Machine for the Carter administration.... Today in Backbeat Online: • Denver punk reunion (1978-1988) changes venues. • Otis Taylor's latest record earns praise in Spin. • Q.Burse returns with Lenny Lenn-directed video "The Puzzle." • John ... More >>

Dialed In: This week's local music radio playlists

Here what the area's local-centric specialty radio shows were spinning this week. We're currently tracking the playlists a number of different shows, including Radio 1190's long-running Local Shakedown, KTCL's Locals Only, the Colorado Sound, which originates at KRFC and is re-broadcast all over Col ... More >>

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Pentatonic Wars and Love Songs
Telarc

Score! Danielle Ate the Sandwich writes theme for Everyday, Boulder Acoustic Society appears in new Mini Cooper commercial and more

So, it looks like our favorite singer-songwriter, Danielle Ate the Sandwich, has become everybody else's favorite, after all. Ms. Sandwich (or Ms. Anderson, if you prefer formality), appearing this Friday, June 26, on the Meadowlark patio, has garnered invitations to perform at the upcoming UMS and ... More >>

Mile Hi-Fidelity playlist - 06.17.09

Turned in an economy version of the show last night. No guests, no co-host. Not much to report really. Just one guy, one mike and two dozen handpicked tunes. Where was my faithful sidekick, you ask? Why Mr. Thomas had a show last night at the Larimer Lounge, as he dutifully reminded me via text yest ... More >>

Dialed in: This week's local music radio playlists

Here what the area's local-centric specialty radio shows were spinning this week. We're currently tracking the playlists a number of different shows, including Radio 1190's long-running Local Shakedown, KTCL's Locals Only (except for this week: Due to unforeseen technical difficulties, Alf ended up ... More >>

Dialed in: This week's local-music radio playlists

Here's this week's playlists from the other local-centric music shows around your radio dial, including Radio 1190's long running Local Shakedown, KTCL's Local's Only and the Colorado Sound, which originates at KRFC and is rebroadcast all over Colorado. If there are any others you'd like to see ... More >>

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D-Note

Moovers and Shakers 2007

Backbeat scribes sound off on their favorite local releases of the year.

Moovers and Shakers 2007

Backbeat scribes sound off on their favorite local releases of the year.

It’s a Wrap for the Westword Music Showcase

And the winners are…

Rock the Vote!

Rock the Vote!

Taylor Made

Immersive Studio launches its Seven Voices series with Otis Taylor

Otis Taylor

Below the Fold (Telarc)

Club Scout

Manny's Smokehouse

Bluesman Walking

Consummate sideman Eddie Turner steps into the spotlight.

Best Blues CD

Rise
Eddie Turner

Best North-of-the-Border Label for Colorado Blues

NorthernBlues Music

Locals Only

New music from area artists

Best Blues Artist

Otis Taylor

All Mixed Up

The year's best local music becomes the soundtrack of our lives.

The Show(case) Must Go On!

Best Blues Musician

Otis Taylor

Backwash

Fear of a hip planet? Austin swarms with the übercool during SXSW.

Hit Pick

Otis Taylor

Best Blues Recording

Respect the Dead
Otis Taylor
NorthernBlues Music

Our Town

From blues to kiddie core, the year 2001 was an odyssey in local music. Backbeat writers remember the best.

Best Blues Recording

White African
Otis Taylor

Bluer Than the Blues

Otis Taylor gets the break he deserves without putting on a happy face.

Home, Sweet Home

The peak performances by Colorado artists in 1997.

Taylor Made