Show You Should Know – Chastity Belt Revamps the Art of Self-Preservation
“Telling lies to your therapist, it’s fine,” Chastity Belt’s lead singer, Julia Shapiro, lilts in the band’s newest single, which dropped on February 4. She con...
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Salute and Support Women in the Local Music Scene at Rebelles Night
On March 15, 2019, Zoe Van De Voorde, known alternatively as the ukulele-playing, country-pop musician Eleanor Nash, was on a date at Lion’s Lair that “definite...
Just Announced – Glass Animals Will Return to Red Rocks with Denzel Curry
On June 16, the British four-piece Glass Animals will bring their exhilarating concert experience — with heady, reshaped versions of their songs as its staple —...
Rocking Bandanas and Eating Bananas with A-Mac & The Height
Do you remember being a kid and mixing all of the paint colors together, only to discover with disappointment that you created an indeterminate (and rather ugly...
Denver-based Live Music Podcast “ColoLocal” is Your New Source for Songs and Stories
Did you know that The Lumineers’ former cellist, Neyla Pekarek, found inspiration for her first solo album at the Greeley Historical Museum, where she encounter...
Show You Should Know – Amber Liu Welcomes You to the World of K-pop
The Recording Academy lags behind the global music community when it comes to the appreciation of K-pop. They failed to nominate the Korean boyband group, BTS, ...
Review – Mandolin Orange and the Colorado Symphony Worked their Intricate Magic
Emily Frantz, who is one half of the Americana duo, Mandolin Orange, played and recorded 43 different violin parts to make the studio version of their song, “Co...
Black Violin Talks Doing the Impossible Ahead of their Show at the Paramount
Today, genre-defying acts dominate the music industry, and artists move between styles with a level of comfort rarely — if ever — observed before. Few of these ...
The Dreamy, Down to Earth Duality of Bunny Blake
After seven years of gigging professionally around the Front Range, the local who now uses the moniker Bunny Blake wanted to reinvent her public self. Her initi...
Show You Should Know – Snow Tha Product’s Relationship with Colorado Advances to Mission Ballroom
Though Mexican-American rapper Snow Tha Product hails from Texas and California, she’s always performed for Colorado as if it was her home. She’s graced the sta...
How Tanaya Winder Brought Her Voice to Life and Helped Thousands of Indigenous Youth Find Theirs
On the Southern Ute reservation in Ignacio, Colorado, a young Tanaya Winder would record cassette tapes of herself singing and send them to her grandparents. “I...
Preview – NYC Brass Band Lucky Chops to Make their Colorado Debut at the Bluebird
“You’re going to make it big if you get a singer.”
The members of Lucky Chops — a brass-based band who cut their teeth busking in New York City — received th...
Josie Russell
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Josie Russell loves to investigate culture, ideas and the media through which we transmute them. She perambulates through life with headphones on her ears, hair in her face and a (dog-eared) book in her hand.