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In the mix: Robert Randolph, Yam Haus, Fastball, Metalachi, Sammy Rae & the Friends and more.

Ask the Cuban-born, Chicago-raised guitarist and singer Eddie Turner how he ended up in Colorado about five decades ago, and he says, “It’s actually pretty simple. I saw the band Zephyr when I was in high school, and I was just like, ‘Wow, what an amazing band!' I just kind of said to myself, ‘I'm going to join that band one day.’” In the early ’70s, Turner moved to Boulder to study liberal arts at the University of Colorado, and after playing in the band Mother Earth, he did finally get that guitar spot in Zephyr in 1980, four years after the death of guitarist and co-founder T...

Fidel Robles opened the upscale Mexican restaurant Cilantro, at 1703 Federal Boulevard, with his wife and two sons nearly two years ago. While that eatery is still going, Robles has teamed up with his cousin Camelia Robles, who owns La Machaca de Mi Amá and two El Coco Pirata locations with her husband, to partner on two new concepts on Broadway in properties owned by CoClubs owner Regas Christou. By mid-June, the cousins will open Cabrón Carbon, a taqueria, at 1043 Broadway, the former home of Quijote’s Broadway and Luciano’s Pizza and Wings before that. In July, they'll open Camelia...

While the UMS has traditionally been held the last week of July, this year’s festival will be pushed ahead to August 27 through 29. Local and national headliners will be announced in July, but pre-sale tickets go on sale at 10 a.m. Wednesday, May 12. “We wanted to give more time for the city to come back,” says Berry. “And I think a big piece for us is how important it is for the venues to get back on their feet for a week before we bring a full festival down [to South Broadway]. We want to make sure that we're all good and ready for it, and an extra couple of weeks can go a long way...

Near the beginning of the pandemic, the members of Denver psych-rock band Eldren were in the same position as other acts around the globe: They couldn’t tour, and they couldn’t rehearse or record together. But they wanted to keep collaborating in some way, so singer/guitarist Nasir Malik proposed that the band challenge itself by creating an album solely of cover songs. That would eventually become Separation Sessions, which started streaming on digital platforms in April. Not long after Bill Withers passed away, on March 30, 2020, Malik and singer, guitarist and keyboardist Tyler Imbro...