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The sheer scope of this music at SxSW is overwhelming on paper and deer-in-the-headlights making in person.  It's like Daytona Spring Break at a mixer with NAMM.

The artist X performs a song. ©X Baczewska.

Eclectic Method is a multimedia mash-up that just has to be experienced live. Check it out at South x Southwest March 15-18.

Performance artists Guillermo Gomez-Pena and Roberto Sifuentes spent a week in residency at Santa Fe Art Institute in January, finalizing work on their new book (forthcoming from London's Routledge Press).

The Colorado New Play Summit included a premiere of the adaptation of writer Kent Haruf's novel, Eventide. Leanne Goebel met the writer at the summit.

Xiren's song, "Ship of Fools" off the Trip-R album, reached number 8 late last yer and stayed there for 5-6 weeks through December. Xiren says he's not Lady Gaga yet. That's a good thing. The band's new song will be ready for a performance at Denver's Soiled Dove April 23. Photo: Raemi Vermiglio.

Lucidity Suitcase International of Philadelphia, and Double Edge Theater, of Ashfield, Mass., participated in Revolutions Theater Festival in Albuquerque in January.

Kris Lewis and Will.i.am collaborate with Denver art dealer David B. Smith to co-curate a Grammy visual arts exhibiton of 15 artists reflecting on Who Killed the Music?

David Mamet's Race, on Broadway, is a sometimes brilliant and always challenging drama.

People want you out to lunch. Donald Rubinstein. With guests including Jono Manson.

LAND/ART presented DJ Spooky's Terra Nova: Sinfonia Antarctica at the KiMo Theatre on October 24.  Performing to a packed theater, DJ Spooky (aka Paul Miller) incorporated a video art installation along with his music.

X Baczewska performs her composition, Vestiges: After the Catastrophe.

Dj Spooky performs this Saturday in the Burque.

Globalquerque! brings world music to National Hispanic Cultural Center.

Groovey experiences Colorado ice-princess weather in September, at Monolith.

Sept 17th Chris Jonas of Santa Fe and The Del Sol String Quartet, of San Francisco, gave a world sneak preview of Jonas's multimedia composition for the quartet, "Garden." A full 3 months before the world tour launches. 

Now, I am willing to concede that perhaps my musical opinions are not exactly on a dream date with your opinions. But ever heard of a guitar "lick"?  Les Paul invented it.  Ever heard of a guitar? Most guitars in the world are either Les Pauls or Les Paul knockoffs.  It's like the guy designed the butter knife.  "What kind of butter knife is that?"  "Uh, a butter knife for butter kind."  Exactly.

White Rabbit is a 10-song solo act for Nathen Maxwell that introduces The Original Bunny Gang, the epitome of honest and in the groove SoCal reggae/folk.  

Groovey interviews Kevin, and about 400 other guys in one afternoon, while experiencing for once what it's like to be a "have" during a hailstorm the size of Texas, in Colorado.

Two pajama-wearing (two guys, two pairs of pajamas) comics from Albuquerque make it big, very big, in international comedy. 

 

 

Dud husband. He-man lover.  Plantation wife stuck at her knitting. Even soprano Patricia Racette's voice and Tom Ford's costumes cannot save The Letter. Right: Leslie Crosbie (Racette) behind Robert Crosbie (Anthony Michaels-Moore). Photos: Ken Howard.

Groovey says: it's a 2-way road folks. This interweb do-hicky. And, he really digs Donald Rubinstein's new CD, WHEN SHE KISSES THE SHIP ON HIS ARM, and not because he's yelling.

Bill Viola,  video artist, gets the immersion of his life, invited to create a video installation in St. Paul's Church, London. Are you listening, Christopher Wren?

Dancing with the stars.

Groovey wisdom: Put a comb through that thing. And: our music buzz man cuts in line, experiences one legendary life moment after another, and estimates the entire sound crew was fired on one day.

 

The band talks about heat in Phoenix and why their new album is the heaviest yet.

Classical musician's get a Rocky Mountain high and a paid vacation. Music Director Zinman conducts Aspen Music Festival Orchestra.

R.I.P. Michael Jackson

Celebration at the Apollo Theater, New York City, June 30

Photo-essay by Sara Stathas

Denver's music scene finds Seattle panting to keep up. It used to be a joke to ask your server, "Do you have Major Label Interest?" Then came a day something wondrous happened. The Mile High city's in show business as Denver's signing bands- across genres- to major labels faster than you can read this.