The folk trio Mountain Man essentially went quiet in 2013, when vocalist Amelia Meath turned her attention to Sylvan Esso, her North Carolina-based synth-pop duo with Nick Sanborn. Fans wondered if the trio would ever get back together.

“Denver is very different from any place I’ve lived, as far as the music scene,” says Molly Raney, the classically trained, California-born avant-pop musician better known as Poppet.

“I have been surprised at how many people have been making the transition with me.”

Backstage at Washington’s at the Murder by Death concert Friday night, gritty Iowa singer-songwriter and opener William Elliot Whitmore praised the new Fort Collins theater that launched in February.

When Nine Inch Nails played at Red Rocks, one question dominated the night: Is dark music medicine?

Songwriter Adam Turla, who sings and plays guitar in the gothic-Americana band Murder by Death, has been busy – with music and pizza.

Elephant Revival veteran Bridget Law – who is producing the tenth-annual Sister Winds Festival, taking place at Mishawaka Amphitheatre on Sunday, August 26 – says she’s seen things move in a positive direction for women since she entered the Colorado music scene just over a decade ago.

Neyla Pekarek’s first solo album is all about snakes – killing them.

Animal Collective performed its ethereal 2004 breakthrough album in its entirety at the Ogden and fashion, attitudes, even the doomsday politics of our time, quickly faded from immediate relevance.

The Paul Simon farewell concert on May 30 became one of the hottest Denver tickets in recent memory.

The Devil Makes Three brought gravity to Red Rocks.

MF RUCKUS, the Velveteers, Ned Garthe Explosion and Plastic Daggers will all play the May 11 show.

R.L. Cole has wandered the roads of America, written countless songs for other musicians, and now he’s burning bright on his own.

The January 11 Greensky Bluegrass concert – the first of three sold-out shows at the 1,600-capacity Ogden Theatre by a jamband without a drummer or political hostility – seemed like a good place to hide from our political realities.

Grayson County Burn Ban drops its new album Better Neighbor at the hi-dive, Friday, January 12.

Sylvan Esso’s Colorado fans revere the North Carolina indie duo’s EP Echo Mountain Sessions, even if it’s a surprising rock-and-roll departure from the act’s synth-pop sound.

Waiting in a line that spanned almost two Boulder blocks before Primus’s sold-out show at the Fox Theatre last night – part of the renowned Boulder venue’s twentieth-anniversary celebration – I heard a guy in his mid 20s tell a friend incredulously, “My cousin said he’s never heard of Primus. He didn’t even know fucking ‘John The Fisherman!’”

Casey James Prestwood, veteran of Colorado country-rock band Drag the River and acclaimed Alabama emo group Hot Rod Circuit, is a country-music encyclopedia. Get him talking about legendary session musicians and he’ll spin a yarn the size of Texas. Discussing the earnest, emotional and sometimes downright depressing lyrics he sings over his backing band, the Burning Angels, however, doesn’t come so easily.

The versatile Los Angeles band Los Lobos—with its two iconic singer/guitarists, César Rosas and David Hidalgo—formed in 1973 and entered the national consciousness big-time in 1987 with a faithful cover of “La Bamba,” a surprise hit from the Ritchie Valens biopic.

Walk the grounds of the Stanley Hotel before one of Murder by Death’s annual shows in the 108-year-old hotel’s music hall. A haunting stillness will chill your bones. Frigid winds will greet you, too, along with a buzz of anticipation from the gothic-Americana band’s fans, who come from all over the world to see the band at the reputedly haunted hotel that inspired Stephen King’s The Shining.