Photos and review of Ani DiFranco at the Boulder Theater in Boulder, Colorado

Live review: 20th annual Folks Festival @ Planet Bluegrass Ranch

Live review: Ani DiFranco, Buddy Wakefield @ the Ogden Theatre

Live review: Ani DiFranco @ Armstrong Hall in Colorado Springs

Jenny Lewis, seen here playing the Bluebird Theater in 2008, will come back to Colorado this summer for a gig at the excellent Rocky Mountain Folks Festival. Photo by Lucia De Giovanni. The Rocky Mountain Folks Festival is one of our favorite Colorado music events. The good folks at Planet Bluegrass know how to craft a festival line-up that is both crowd-pleasing and interesting — something they continue to prove year after year. This year will be no different. The festival, Aug. 13-15 in Lyons [...]

Tool performs against a macabre visual backdrop on the first night of the Mile High Music Festival. Photo by Mark Osler. Now that the dust has cleared and tents have been taken down, we can look back with some clarity on the smaller-than-anticipated (but still relatively big) event that was the second annual Mile High Music Festival, which took place Saturday and Sunday on the soccer fields surrounding Dick’s Sporting Goods Park in Commerce City. Headliners Tool, the Fray and Widespread Panic were joined by [...]

Brandon Boyd of Incubus plays at the second annual Mile High Music Festival at Dick’s Sporting Goods Park. Photos by Robert Castro.

G. Love enjoys the sun at the Mile High Music Festival Day 1. Photo by Daniel Petty. As Day 1 rolls on, the mood on the field seems particularly laid back considering the scale of this festival. Given the geography of the surrounding areas, natural shade is impossible to come by — though organizers have done a great job providing concertgoers with ways to cool off. Shade canopies and water misters are plentiful. The “Mile High dress code” remains cargo shorts, sunglasses and (on the [...]

Live review: The Living Room Series @ the Meadowlark

[photopress:the_duhks.jpg,full,pp_image] The Duhks perform at the 35th annual Telluride Bluegrass Festival. Photos by Reverb contributor Nathan Rist. Telluride’s 35th annual Bluegrass Festival (technically the “Bluegrass and Country Music Festival”) took place Thursday through Sunday last week at Telluride Town Park, uniting a host of folk, rock, country and roots performers like Ricky Skaggs and Bruce Hornsby, Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova (a.k.a. The Swell Season), Ryan Adams & the Cardinals, Yonder Mountain String Band and many others. The festival is renowned for its gorgeous mountain [...]