With so many bluegrass offshoot outfits actively touring in the States, sometimes it’s hard to decide whose show to go to on a Friday night. Especially in the bluegrass supported state of Colorado, where fans cannot get enough of its dance-ability and energetic tempo, its one of the most popular options for the live concert-going scene. While longer existing outfits have the option at playing large seated venues, most fans seem to come to dance.

Garage A Trois, a post rock/freak jazz entity comprised of Seattle-based saxophonics master Skerik, Brooklyn sound-sculptor/keysman Marco Benevento, Texas-born punk rock vibraphone hero Mike Dillon and New Orleans funky drummer/beat scientist Stanton Moore, have announced five shows in Colorado this December. The run starts in Telluride, stops in Breckenridge, Ft. Collins and Boulder, and concludes in Denver.

Following two summers of sold-out Kyle’s Brew Fests, Kyle Hollingsworth, keyboardist of The String Cheese Incident, will team up with The Chicago Bluegrass & Blues Festival to bring his charity beer festival on the road, to Chicago, on Saturday, December 10th, before the final Aragon Ballroom performance of The String Cheese Incident’s first full tour in over four years.

SCI Fidelity Records releases a free music Sampler today – available for download at the SCI Fidelity Soundcloud Store and at www.scifidelity.com. A limited number of CD copies will also be available along The String Cheese Incident’s upcoming Fall Tour.

On their upcoming release Let It Grow (Little King Records), Big Daddy Love walks the fine line between roots, Americana, and blue collar rock & roll. Essentially organic in both disposition and composition, Big Daddy Love is a five-piece band with a natural blend of rock, roots and grass that they call ‘Appalachian Rock’.

Fall Like Rain, Martin Sexton’s brand-new EP, finds this artist again asking relevant questions and challenging the status quo. Entertaining us all the while, he continues to call for unity in “One Voice Together” and adds: “In a world of warfare, peace is bad for business . .