“This one is for you sweetie,” read the sign on Lisa Efraimson’s backpack as she climbed 8.5 miles to Vail Pass on her bike. Another sign attached to another biker said, “Eef – every stroke, every ...

The singing starts almost immediately, the voice deep and sultry, picking through blues songs in random one- or two-line bursts. It seems a little incongruous that the woman making our sandwiches in a ...

It’s tempting to reduce bands to their stylistic influences, or to whittle their sound into some contrived sub-subgenre that ultimately makes it more difficult to imagine what the band sounds like.

Udo Pannekeet is the current bassist for the legendary Dutch progressive rock band Focus, featuring original members Thijs van Leer (flute, vocals, keyboards) and Pierre van der Linden (drums). On ...