Russ Anixter’s Hippie Big Band gives familiar songs exciting new swing
Stapleton resident Russ Anixter and his Hippie Big Band recently released their first album, “What Is?”, an eclectic collection of big-band arrangements of rock, jazz and blues songs running the gamut ...
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The swing of things: Dan Gabel brings 'The American Big Band Experience' to Mechanics Hall
Gabel said he played at Mechanics Hall when he was a freshman in high school and returned there in 2010 for the Hall's Brown ...
Here’s where Denver’s biggest-name bands eat, drink, record, donate money, buy and fix their gear
We asked several artists — The Lumineers, Illenium, jazz pianist Annie Booth, hip hop’s Trev Rich, Denver trailblazer Big ...
The unbelievable rise of Opeth, the band who went from death metal no-hopers to prog royalty
When Opeth began as a death metal band in the early 1990s, no could have imagined their ascent to prog metal royalty – not ...
When you hear about people leaving bands you think it’s a big, dramatic situation but not for us, say The Horrors
MAKING new album Night Life, The Horrors faced serious setbacks – but it only made the band stronger and more excited about ...
They Might Be Giants' record label wanted them to start a dance craze
In Set List, we talk to veteran musicians about some of their most famous songs, learning about their lives and careers in ...
Iconic Alabama band playing rare acoustic show, recording first album since ‘90s
“MTV Unplugged” was arguably at its height in 1993. That year, the series of intimate acoustic performances featured stars like Nirvana, Stone Temple Pilots and Neil Young, building on era-defining ...
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Everybody brings something sacred: Carbondale recording studio captures the music of valley locals
Dave Taylor has spent innumerable hours at his boutique recording studio in Carbondale, mastering, mixing, recording and ...
Every My Morning Jacket Studio Album, Ranked
In honor of the new My Morning Jacket album ’Is,’ we’re looking back at the band’s albums and ranking them all.
They Might Be Giants never saw making kids' albums as a permanent career pivot
This is part two of our interview with They Might Be Giants; you can read part one here. AVC: “Boss Of Me” is best known as ...
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"It was a middle finger to everyone who’d told us we wouldn’t do anything." A track-by-track guide to Bullet For My Valentine's The Poison
Bullet For My Valentine frontman Matt Tucks talks us through every song on the band's groundbreaking debut album ...
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Betty Bonney, 100, Dies; Her Paean to Joe DiMaggio Was a Big-Band Hit
By Richard Sandomir Betty Bonney was already a veteran big-band vocalist at 17 when ... Image The Les Brown band’s 78 r.p.m. recording of “Joltin' Joe DiMaggio” was released in September ...