Music
Image and sound
When Katie Selvage stepped into an unassuming Santa Fe gallery for inspiration to take home to her own art space in Boulder, she didn’t...
Music for Maui
As flames engulfed the Hawaiian island of Maui in early August, Jessica Rogalski immediately thought about how to help all her friends dealing with...
Fever dream
Schedule a video call with Karin Dreijer, and you might not know what to expect on the other end of the screen. The enigmatic...
Knotty by nature
The mysterious process of making art can bring once-buried feelings to the surface. Just ask Sadie Dupuis, the celebrated singer-songwriter behind the Philadelphia indie-rock...
Dare you to move
Twenty years ago, an up-and-coming SoCal alt-rock outfit called Switchfoot took a gut punch. The band had just turned in The Beautiful Letdown, which...
Bach to Boulder
The slogan “Across Time Across Cultures” has been a theme of the Boulder Bach Festival for much of Zachary Carrettin’s 10-year run as music...
All together now
If something feels familiar about the latest from Chicago indie darlings Ratboys, that’s partly by design. Since its release in August, The Window —...
Variations on a theme
Death, taxes and Butterman. The Boulder Philharmonic Orchestra has experienced many changes over the last few years, but music director Michael Butterman is a...
All hail the Mountain Goats
It’s been more than 20 years since singer-songwriter John Darnielle dropped the lo-fi masterpiece All Hail West Texas into the world. Two decades and...
‘Good to see you’
Dissonance isn’t exactly the first word that comes to mind when you think about Nickel Creek. But the progressive bluegrass outfit’s latest offering, Celebrants...
Gazing into the future
When a once-great band decides to give it another go after years of inactivity, the news is often met with a mixture of exhilaration...
This must be the place
The stage is empty save for one microphone and a boom box. A man in a gray suit and an acoustic guitar walks up,...
