Music
The composition of carbon
The reason why Ryan Fechter, the bassist for Denver/ Boulder-based indie-rock band Carbon Choir, makes music is a unique one...
Channeling Fela
Motet founder and drummer Dave Watts had just wrapped up rehearsal when we caught him last week, sounding a bit drained. And for good reason: his day job franchise The Motet had finished a swing through Texas and, connected by a two-plane redeye to Utah, a ski town ...
Designated musican
When actor Kiefer Sutherland first thought of demoing songs he had written, he wasn’t planning to be the person releasing them.
“I had written them awhile...
All-star collaboration
There’s a great moment from an audience video shot last October at the Rock ’n Roots fest in Amsterdam of Joe Satriani, Sonny Landreth and Davy Knowles gang-tackling the old blue-rock warhorse “I’m Going Down,” one of those easy-to-rehearse standby numbers that gets ...
We’re just getting started
Modern politics and media are so intertwined it’s hard to view one without the other. But hasn’t it always been this way? Where would...
Bart’s is back
Waves of change rattled the record store community in Boulder when Bart’s CD Cellar and Record Shop closed its doors this past Valentine’s Day...
Punching back in
When she moved from San Diego to Boulder in 2007 my partner, Irene, was hoping to discover Colorado musicians who moved her as much as the reggae-tinged San Diego-based alt-folkie Beth Preston had. So one can imagine Irene’s surprise when she went grocery shopping at...
Liquid gold
As rock ’n’ roll got restless during the countercultural turn of the 1960s, the music began to cry out for a visual counterpart to...
A common theme
Listening to a young band can be as fun as opening the door of an outhouse. Unfocused songwriting and lackluster instrumentation, spoon-fed by the blind adoration of equally young, equally uninformed fans, can make for an unpleasant experience, to put it mildy...
