I'm in Colorado all this week, more for hiking and biking than music, but this weekend, Denver is hosting its annual free Taste of Colorado festival on the Civic Mall.

 Austin's Lonesome Heroes, whom I first saw at the tail end of SXSW earlier this year, played an entrancing set of psychedelic country on Sunday night at Superfine in DUMBO.

I was up in Toronto this past Saturday where, sometime around midnight, I found myself in an upstairs African restaurant near Kensington Market called Teranga (no website), which in the

A brilliant show from Chapel Hill-based Lost in the Trees this past Monday at the Mercury Lounge, layering classical textures (via two cellos and a violin) on top of indie