It took six months for the Knew to make Pulpería, its long-player released earlier this summer. In contrast, the guys banged out the three songs on this seven-inch vinyl EP in a weekend. While both recordings prove that the Knew can put out quality stuff whether it’s months or days…

Although Nate Birkey grew up in Evergreen, the trumpeter spent a lot of time in Santa Barbara, where he split his time playing in jazz clubs and with local indie-pop band Spencer the Gardener. For the past five years, Birkey has lived in New York City, where he’s refined his…

When brothers Kevin and Craig Caldwell took over the former Aroma Cafe at 2017 South University Boulevard near the end of 2009, they’d hoped to reopen the spot as the Crimson & Gold Tavern in the spring. But in February, they were denied a liquor license; turns out the address…

On the Blue Canyon Boys’ fourth album, Mountain Bound, the bluegrass quartet does some fine covers of older material from Alton Delmore, Reno and Smiley, the Country Gentlemen, the Louvin Brothers and Bill Monroe.  What’s amazing here, though, is how well their version of the INXS song “Don’t Change,” which…

Since its construction in 1883, the building at 1301 Santa Fe Drive has been home to everything from a hardware store to a grocery store to Hoffbrau Tavern & Grill, which lasted more than two decades at that address. But a few years ago, the bar’s then-owner started neglecting the…

Although ZetaKaye House, the name of John and Kim Baxter’s new booking and management company, might sound like sorority house, it’s actually a deliberate fusion of the names of two individuals: Oscar Zeta Acosta, who was part of the Brown Power movement in the ’60s and Hunter S. Thompson’s attorney,…

With his modified wok-lid resonator guitar, rigged-up drum kit (which includes a metal washtub for a snare), a rusty Falstaff beer-can microphone and assorted other things, you have to wonder how the hell Brent Burkhart, aka Reverend Deadeye, takes the one-man band concept to a completely different level — and…

Bill Ward learned a hard lesson in Larimer Square, where he owned Below Bar and Slim 7: At most clubs, you only have a small window — say, from 10 p.m. until closing — when you can make money. But now that he’s out of Larimer Square altogether, Ward’s planning…

For years, I’ve really fought to dissuade people as categorizing me or thinking of me in singer-songwriter terms,” Joshua Novak says. “Not that it’s bad. I felt like those people in the ’70s who were singer-songwriters, they all had bands. But something happened in the ’90s, when the coffee-shop singer-songwriter…

WILCO 09.03.10 | Jazz Aspen Snowmass “Don’t even think about yelling ‘Freebird,” Wilco frontman Jeff Tweedy responded to the guy in the crowd who screamed out the name of the Lynyrd Skynyrd tune early in Wilco’s ambitious two-hour set at the Jazz Aspen Snowmass Labor Day festival. “You can wait…