The Soundtrack of This Little Town

Inside The Downtown Sound, Greeley’s sole record shop and the quiet heart of a growing music scene. There is a particular kind of quiet inside a record store. Not silence, exactly. Something softer. The low hum of a turntable warming up, the papery shuffle of fingers walking through a crate, friendly neighborhood chatter between the […]

Red Dirt Is Coming to Colorado. The Logan Ryan Band Is Leading the Charge.

As history has shown time and again, dramatic shifts from the mainstream are inevitable. Alternative rock pushed hair metal off the top of the mountain in the early 1990s, gangster rap overtook bubblegum hip hop and R&B around the same time, and disco met its unceremonious end in the late 1970s. All are notable chapters […]

Alright, alright: The Emporium Sports Bar slated to open in Greeley in June

You won’t need an invite from David Wooderson or anyone from the Dazed and Confused crew to come out to The Emporium Sports Bar in Greeley this summer.  Inspired by the 1993 film, everyone and their friends are invited to check out the Emporium on June 1 for its scheduled soft opening.  The Greeley Emporium […]

Sacred to Secular: How Robert Randolph Brought the Church to the Blues

Picture a teenaged boy seated inside the House of God Church in Orange, New Jersey. No radio. No record player. No blues, no rock, no funk. Just the hum of a pedal steel guitar and the swell of gospel worship filling the room. That boy was Robert Randolph, and for a long time, that room […]