Local Culture, Arts & Community

Vinyl Records & Vintage Vibe Come to Old Town

By Charlie Englar Located at 254 Linden St., the newly opened Bizarre Bazaar is a vinyl record store, bookstore, video store, vintage poster store and community gathering spot. And it seems that this new artistic […]

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Mallard Bill Soda – Fountain

By Charlie Englar So many emotions jump out of the speakers with this album. At one moment it’s MGMT, at another it feels as though Crosby, Stills & Nash are in the room, and then […]

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Kevin Dooley – Moonlight Highway

By Charlie Englar A seasoned veteran of open road nostalgia and soulful serenades, troubadour Kevin Dooley comes with it again via his fifth studio album, Moonlight Highway. The Longmont resident has pulled together a superb […]

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Kathryn Mostow – Rich Girl

By Charlie Englar Kathryn Mostow provides a shining example that music and artistry can be a spiritual release. It’s been nearly seven years since Mostow’s last studio album, and with a copyright year of 2012, […]

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Ryan Spearman – Get Along Home

By Charlie Englar From St. Louis, Missouri comes an organic, naturally grown form of stripped-down musical spontaneity. A rich, textural throwback of a vocal accent brings songs meant for the past into the future of […]

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Spring Creek Bluegrass Band – Hold On Me

By Charlie Englar For their fourth studio album, Hold On Me, Spring Creek deliver an excellent mix of free-flowing jamgrass and hard picking traditional bluegrass. Old West-style vocals and smooth and slow tunes are added […]

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The 23 String Band – Catch 23

By Charlie Englar To pick or not to pick? The 23 String Band would have no problem with the answer to that question. Cumberland Valley has been known to produce bluegrass nirvana, and there may […]

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Andy Palmer – Sometime Around

By Charlie Englar Grimy, electric folk-rock would be a good place to start when describing the sound of Andy Palmer’s debut album, Sometime Around. The genre-mixed intonation displayed on the disc blends beautifully with Palmer’s […]