Talking Dead

Phil Lesh talks about learning new things in your 70s and shares his views on piracy

Terrapin Crossroads, of course, is Lesh’s new venue/restaurant, a joint project he opened with his wife, Jill. It’s a small performance space coupled with a dining room, and it’s the cul mination of decades of dreaming and planning, as well as a nifty little retirement plan for the septuagenarian bassist.

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moe. money, fewer problems

After almost a decade of self-release, moe. signs a deal

These days, it’s become common for groups, especially in the rock genre, to start their own record labels and handle their own distribution and promotion. And here is moe., having released all but two of its previous 10 studio CDs on its own label, teaming up with a record company for a new CD, 'Whatever Happened to the La Las.'

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Boulder Bach Festival Schedule

Bach for a lifetime

Rick Erickson, the new director of the Boulder Bach Fest, discusses why Bach remains so popular

Erickson, the new director of the Boulder Bach Festival, took that advice to heart. As a child he studied Bach on piano and organ, he performed Bach’s cantatas as a student at the Eastman School of Music, and for nearly 20 years he has headed the renowned Bach Vespers series at Holy Trinity Church in New York.

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Gesturing across the country

Smooth Money Gesture makes touring look easy

It’s rare for people to live out their childhood dreams, but the Diminico brothers are doing just that. Ever since the two were 13 and 12 years old, respectively, Doug and Dan Diminico have practiced and played together in a family trio that included their father.

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Keep it simple

Dr. Dog’s studio approach has evolved over the years

Bands are chemistry experiments, and the introduction of a couple new elements can change the mix in not readily apparent ways. Dr. Dog has been together for more than a dozen years and released six albums of widescreen psych-pop, redolent of hooks and rather rollicking rock energy. Though

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More stories to tell

To help save the world, underground rapper Brother Ali will keep speaking — and keep listening

As he prepares to release his third major album, Mourning in America and Dreaming in Color, Brother Ali says he’s looking for ways to change society, too.

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Studio savior

Blind Pilot found a new voice while recording

It’d be difficult not to hear an echo of Fleet Foxes shaggy Northwestern Pacific folk-pop or Elliott Smith’s strummy melancholia in the delicate chamber-folk beauty of Blind Pilot’s second album, We Are the Tide. The Portland sextet’s September release is a dramatic step forward from 2008’s more austere, low-key 3 Rounds and a Sound, showcasing not only their growth as musicians and songwriters but the difference a full-fledged studio can make.

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Here and there

Leo Kottke reflects on his career, plus the strange horror of YouTube

It took a little puzzling, but we finally determined that the last time we caught up to Leo Kottke was late 2002, when he and Mike Gordon paired up for a duo gig at the Boulder Theater. Kind of an odd night — a typically subdued sprinkling of Leo fans awash in a swell of ardent Phaithful, maybe the biggest crowd Kottke had ever played to in Boulder.

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REVIEW: Technicolor Tone Factory at the Fox Theatre

The first week of school can be rough, as students are only half-awake from the slumber of winter break. When nary a soul was at the Fox Theatre when the doors opened for Boulder group Technicolor Ton

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