Monocle Band enjoys a good story.

The old-time bluegrass group Masontown is making waves on the Front Range.

The Telluride Bluegrass Festival rolled out its 2018 lineup, which includes Emmylou Harris, Sturgill Simpson, Leftover Salmon, Billy Strings and more.

RIVAL NOVA’s bringing quirky synth-pop from Shreveport to Denver.

“My tastes have always been a little schizophrenic,” says Zach Lupetin of the Dustbowl Revival. “I love traditional blues, swing and New Orleans jazz band stuff, but I’m also a huge Wilco and Nirvana fan.”

Singer-songwriter Anthony Ruptak has been organizing Denver benefit concerts for refugees.

“It’s not your typical ‘Jingle Bells’ shtick,” says flutist Vicki Jordan, describing the music of her Celtic- and Renaissance-influenced ensemble Kindred Spirits.

The music industry has long been dominated by white men. To open space for other voices, Denver musicians Elinor Saragoussi and Jacob Cohen, aka Rooster Jake, compiled and self-published New Angles: Perspectives of Women, Queer and Gender Non-Binary Members of the Greater Music Community.

Leftover Salmon is bringing its annual post-Thanksgiving Day shows to the Boulder Theater, and this year, the musicians say they may offer up some surprises.

Jyemo Club is making world music out of Colorado.

“We’re going to write what we like, and if people call it bluegrass, that’s great,” says mandolinist Peter Sharpe of genre-fluid acoustic quintet the Railsplitters. “But if they want to call it something else, that’s fine too.”

Travis McNamara is packaging Kickstarter rewards for his band’s most recent CD drive. It’s been a slow burn for Trout Steak Revival, which began in 2009, but since 2014, the Denver-based bluegrass act has caught fire.

The path to bluegrass wasn’t linear for Ragged Union’s Geoff Union. Although he was born in North Carolina, it wasn’t until he attended an elite liberal arts college in the Northeast that the music of the hills stirred his soul.

Mitchel Evan says artistic beauty lies in imperfection. Back & Forth, the album that his band, Mitchel Evan & the Mangrove, is getting ready to release, is a partial attempt to document the struggles he’s experienced in his own life.

Simon Katz, bassist for Denver-based prog-rock trio Boats Without Oars who died when he was sixteen years old, is remembered by his bandmates on their new album.

At a couple points in his life, Ted Thacker was poised to change the face of the Front Range music scene.

When drummer Jeep MacNichol moved to Denver in 2012, he had two CDs in his car: Minor Threat by the hardcore punk band Minor Threat and The Best of I-Roy by ’70s dancehall artist I-Roy. These two seemingly incompatible sounds provided the inspiration for what would become his next project, The Plates.

Tyler Grant looks like a thin, shaggy Chuck Norris holding a Telecaster. The 41-year-old jamgrass flatpicker, whose music drips with rootsy authenticity, has been around guitars since he was growing up in California in the ’80s and ’90s.