A favorite of stand-up insiders and his fellow comics, Hannibal Buress has recently been branching out into the middle of the country with shows like this weekend’s Comedy Works sets.

The 2012 Telluride Bluegrass Festival will announce its initial artist line-up today, and we have the exclusive news on the bill that already includes Alison Krauss & Union Station, Bruce Hornsby and the Noisemakers, the Sam Bush Band and Yonder Mountain String Band

News: Phish (might be) coming back to Colorado this summer

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 [...]

David Letterman — and one of his late-night networkmates — will will get visits from Colorado musicians this month. Two Colorado acts will be hanging out with some of the largest television audiences of their lives in the coming weeks. That’s right, Boulder-based Yonder Mountain String Band and Denver-based Matt Morris (who is releasing his debut LP on Justin Timberlake’s Tennman Records a week from today) will be hanging with the late-night TV boys in January.