Music
Still alive
As Pearl Jam’s two-and-a-half-hour, tour-closing show at Ball Arena concluded last night and the Seattle rock group stood on stage thanking fans and crew,...
Making waves
The Boulder Philharmonic opens its 53rd season at 7:30 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 11, in Macky Auditorium with a program titled “Heroic Portraits...
The Young Veins keep it light and nostalgic
What Paul Simon is to Vampire Weekend, The Beatles are to The Young Veins. On their debut Take A Vacation! the band serves as a throwback machine that incessantly pumps out song after song of fun and catchy retro-pop in the same — well — vein of the music that made ...
DJ Shadow at Boulder Theater: An exercise in evolution
Josh Davis, better known by his elusive moniker, DJ Shadow, has enjoyed a kind of staying power few artists experience. A San Francisco DJ and producer with a famous affinity for record collecting, he forever influenced the world of hip-hop in 1996 with Endtroducing...
The Phil Collins effect
Roger Sellers is at his parents’ house in Houston when he answers my call. He’s back stateside after a whirlwind run of dates in...
Creedence Clearwater legend John Fogerty reexamines musical roots
When it comes to vintage rock ’n’ roll, the popularity of few bands has crossed generations and weathered the years like that of Creedence Clearwater Revival. Together and recording a mere half decade between 1967 and 1972, the band’s music has long outlived the ...
The best albums of 2010
To quote John Lennon, “Another year is over and a new one just begun,” which means we meet again for Boulder Weekly’s annual “Best Albums of the Year.” A lot of truly great new music blessed our ears in 2010, but let me start by admitting 2010 didn’t exactly ...
The gravitational pull of Zimmer
Two black holes circling each other deep in space, going round and round until they finally collide. The impact sends waves rippling out into...
Colorado’s favorite band
A few months back, a link was circulating around the internet as links are wont to do...
The universal language
Sometimes, when you bring people together from different cultures, they may not be able to talk to one another, but they can communicate through music,” says Manuel Molina...
State of the union
Jesse Elliott — lead singer of the band These United States — has been coming out to the same little cottage in the woods of Michigan, a handful of yards from the shore of Lake Michigan, every year since his birth, so a number of experiences there have helped give ...
