Jeanie Straub

Name:  Jeanie Straub

Contribution:  Journalist/Critic

City:  Parker and Denver (Capitol Hill)

Bio:  I am a librarian at the Parker branch of Douglas County Libraries and coordinate Parker Library’s Live Local Music Series as well as listen to and find and buy stuff for our sizable Local Music collection; email me if you are interested in our Live Local Music Series or in getting your CD into our collection

Favorite local artists:  Saints, 28-200, Andrea Ball, Meese, The Fray, Angie Stevens & the Beautiful Wreck, Jones and Raine, King FOE and his people, John Common & Blinding Flashes of Light, Flobots, 16 Horsepower, Lenny Lenn, Big Head Todd and the Monsters, The Outfit 

Greatest accomplishment to date:  Finishing graduate school; starting and building Parker Library’s Live Local Music Series

Favorite styles of music:   KTCL-type stuff and then more Pop stuff as well as Rock, Hip-Hop; mostly Alt and Indie stuff

Favorite local venues:  Red Rocks, The Walnut Room, The Gothic, The Bluebird, Servino’s Underground, The Ogden, Lion’s Lair, Boulder Theater, The Fox, The Fillmore, Hi-Dive, Larimer Lounge, Swallow Hill

Best album of all time:  National acts would be Sneaker Pimps or Bow Wow Wow; local would be Saints or Andrea Ball