Are the Astronauts Colorado’s first great jam band? G. Brown thinks so. Although the often pejorative term has been associated more with the genre-bending improv scene, Brown, director and curator of the Colorado Music Hall of Fame, thinks it fits. In an era when bands would go out, play their…

With more than two decades of playing trumpet under his belt, Joshua Trinidad knows his way around jazz, and he’s a hell of an improviser. On BUCK, a soundtrack he wrote to accompany ten photos captured by New York-based photographer Chris Buck, he explores some different ground. While Trinidad is…

As guitarist Scott Lane points out, the Congress’s 2010 debut EP had a sort of singer-songwriter vibe to it, with arrangements built around acoustic guitar and vocals. Whatever You Want, on the other hand, is a much more rocking effort. From the opening title track, it’s clear the trio is…

A lot has changed for the Congress since the band released its 2010 self-titled debut EP. For starters, it’s gone from being a quartet to a trio, and it brought in a new drummer, Mark Levy, about a year and a half ago. This was right around the time the…

Since first opening in unincorporated Adams County at I-76 and Pecos a decade ago, the Grand Paladium — which earned a nod in our 2004 Best of Denver issue for Best Metal Detector in a Club — and later its eventual conjoined twin, the Oasis Cabaret gentleman’s club, have had…

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Patrick Dethlefs started penning tunes at the age of fifteen, and while the songwriting on his debut, 2010’s Stays the Same, showed a great deal of depth, his sophomore release, Fall & Rise, makes it even more apparent that he has talent beyond his years. Dethlefs has a warm delivery…

If you’re a boxer or something,” says Strange Americans frontman Matt Hoffman, “you box because that’s what you do. You go in and you fight every day, and sometimes you get your butt kicked, and sometimes you win.” Being a musician is often like getting in the ring, except sometimes…

MY MORNING JACKET @ RED ROCKS | 8/3/12 See Also: – Review: My Morning Jacket at Red Rocks, 8/4/12 – Q&A with Jim James of My Morning Jacket My Morning Jacket singer Jim James may have been born to sing at places like Red Rocks. The venue lends itself so…

The moniker of this Loveland-based act might be a reference to the character that John Lennon plays in the film How I Won the War, but the music of Musketeer Gripweed is far from sounding like the Beatles — or anything even remotely British, for that matter. Rather, the band…

Having formed in the late ’90s, Louisville, Kentucky’s My Morning Jacket has continued to evolve over the course of six studio albums. At the same time, the band has managed to hang on to that reverb-drenched magnetism that fueled its first two albums — 1999’s Tennessee Fire and 2001’s At…

On the Oak Creek Band’s sophomore release, the six-song Fingerprints, the group sets a relaxed tone with “I Want You Around,” which gradually ramps up in verve without quite crossing over into rock-anthem territory. Part of the EP’s charm is that, for the most part, it’s a cozy affair that…

I was always a music fan,” Ravi Coltrane says. “I’d get home from school and I’d go right to Mom’s station wagon — that was when you could play the stereo without the car key. So I’d sit in there with my cassettes, listening to music all day after school…