Author – The Durango Herald

Best albums of 2022: 5 to 1

Indie record labels are the mom-and-pop stores of the music business. Ditch the chains and look for the homegrown place, as the indie labels are what keeps the music business interesting, of...

DATE: Dec 22, 2022 | CATEGORY: Downtown Lowdown

Best albums of 2022: 10 to 6

As the year winds down, many music fans like to take an inventory of what was added to their own personal collection over the last 365, and for many, that inventory is perhaps loaded with re...

DATE: Dec 15, 2022 | CATEGORY: Downtown Lowdown

Monheit plays Durango Cool Jazz event

Jazz vocalist Jane Monheit did not have the typical childhood aspirations of what she was going to be when she grew up. She wasn’t going to be a teacher, a doctor, a nurse or any of those yo...

DATE: Dec 8, 2022 | CATEGORY: Downtown Lowdown

Yves Giraud throws down roots

When musician Yves Giraud moved to Montezuma County, he found the musician pool deeper and packed with more musicians than anticipated. It was not as deep as in his former homes of Los Angel...

DATE: Dec 1, 2022 | CATEGORY: Downtown Lowdown

Basilaris fuses diverse sounds into music

Albuquerque-based musician Lukas Scarpetta wanted to form a jazz band that didn’t want to be a traditional jazz band. It was all about branching out, using jazz as a musical starting point b...

DATE: Nov 24, 2022 | CATEGORY: Downtown Lowdown

Stillwater Music opens new venue

The local music scene is lacking an entry-level sized music venue. If you’re an up and coming, touring small-band or singer songwriter who hasn’t played this area in the past, there are not ...

DATE: Nov 17, 2022 | CATEGORY: Downtown Lowdown

Capitol Comedy brings political satire

Satire is a great part of comedy. It was a great tool in the 1970s on “All in the Family,” and it’s heavy in “South Park” and “Family Guy.” Unless it flies right over your head, which it lik...

DATE: Nov 10, 2022 | CATEGORY: Downtown Lowdown

Carsie Blanton and her punk rock approach

Carsie Blanton does things the punk rock way. The Philadelphia-based musician’s sound wouldn’t be classified as “punk” to the average ear and audible descriptions, for punk-rock is a bottoml...

DATE: Nov 3, 2022 | CATEGORY: Downtown Lowdown

Dreem Machine plays the Starlight Lounge

The music Robin Davis hears in his head is hard rock. One might think its bluegrass or newgrass, as the Pagosa Springs born, raised and based musician may be best known to fans as a bluegras...

DATE: Oct 27, 2022 | CATEGORY: Downtown Lowdown

Bullings driven by curiosity, passion

Wellington Bullings knew from the get-go she wanted to be a singer. Most kids “sing” when they are little, whether putting nonsensical phrases to melodies or doing their best to bang out wha...

DATE: Oct 20, 2022 | CATEGORY: Downtown Lowdown

ORA plays debut show

Durango has a new rock band, but its members have knocked around the local music scene for years. A band made up of players who have had homegrown projects in their own right for decades, O...

DATE: Oct 13, 2022 | CATEGORY: Downtown Lowdown

Skerryvore brings combo of rock, Celtic music

Skerryvore is band with a great identity crisis. Call them a rock band with a Celtic-music habit, or a Celtic band with a rock-music habit, the Scotland-based group walks a fine-line between...

DATE: Oct 6, 2022 | CATEGORY: Downtown Lowdown