“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.

Eef Barzelay has released a long string of albums in a wide variety of settings and configurations: He's been a solo act, sure, but he's better known as the leader of Clem Snide, a band with a ...