I had never seen Elephant Revival before tonight. And sometimes, ignorance is bliss, and the best way to see a live band. Having no expectations or prior convictions of how a show will sound or make you feel is liberating.  After all, music is foremost an innate emotional reaction to rhythms, melodies, and lyrics, and when you have no existing mental model, your mind is forced to make one, which, in its synthesis, is one of the best parts of man’s love affair with music.

When Polytoxic and the Denver Horns come together every year to perform the Last Waltz Revisited, they remind us of the difference between going to a show and going to a SHOW.  Everything was in place- a food drive to support a local charity, a brilliant parade of local talent, non-stop entertainment, and an energy that danced through the ears of everyone nearby.

Elephant Revival, indie –acoustic quintet from Nederland Colorado is pleased to announce that iClips will be streaming a LIVE broadcast from their Nov. 19th show at The Boulder Theater.

Boulder Weekly & Grateful Web are proud to present Perpetual Groove at the Fox Theatre on Saturday, February 11th.  Tickets are on sale now for $13.00 in advance & $15.00 day of show.Perpetual Groove announce the return of original keyboardist, Matt McDonald!!  The band’s original line up has returned and is ready to hit the road.  Don’t miss the sound and show that is created when these musicians hit the stage together at the Fox Theatre!!

It’s hard to exactly pinpoint where the resurgence in popularity of bluegrass music in the last fifteen years has come from. Perhaps it has to do with American’s wanting to reconnect with roots music. It could be that it blends vocal elements of folk music with musical complexity of jazz and classical composition. Perhaps people are just plain sick of what has been coined now as “country”, which appears to have transitioned into electric big-band steel guitar nonsense with even shallower lyrics.

On December 13, 2011, Keller Williams delivers Bass, his 17th album.

Brooklyn-based producer/musician Eliot Lipp and Philadelphia-based indie-electro rockers Brothers Past ring in 2012 with a gala event at the famed Canal Club in Richmond, VA. Lipp will hold down the late-night spot while local dance trio Existor will open the night.

On December 31st, the guitar monk meets the best of the funk, for a New Year's blow-out at the Rex Theatre in Pittsburgh, PA.  Seminal guitar wizard, Steve Kimock is joined by friends and family, including funky bassist Bobby Vega (Zero, KVHW, Sly & the Family Stone), legendary keyboard player Bernie Worrell (founding member of Parliament Funkadelic), and prodigy drummer John Morgan Kimock.After four decades as a professional musician, the world of Steve Kimock is a more adventurous place than ever as h