Music

Review: Pretty Lights at Red Rocks

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There’s absolutely no way I can write this review without bias. No one altered my college music sensibilities like Pretty Lights, whom I knew as the spearhead for Colorado’s charge into electronic music and indisputable winner of the hearts and ears of a generation ...

Inspired by a tragic story, ‘Heart of Hungary’ features Edward Dusinberre...

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Some stories just have to be told. That is what composer Jeffrey Nytch thought when he heard about Sandor Feher, a violinist who died on...

A nice metaphor for life

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Andrew Duhon took one geology class in college, the class we all took; you know, rocks for jocks with the football players. While the...

Good vibes

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When vibraphone player Greg Harris took his New World Citizen Quartet out to play a couple of months ago, opening for Baaba Maal at the L2 Arts and Culture Center in Denver, he positioned himself behind a Gyil (pronounced JEE-lee), a 14-key xylophone indigenous to ...

A meritorious spirit

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  Tift Merritt is haunted by ghosts. But not in a bad way...

Making music theatrical

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Min Tze Wu likes to break barriers...

Delta blues

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The great Mississippi River flood of 1927 began when more than 100 levees broke early in the year. It resulted in more than 27,000 square miles of land being flooded, lasted for almost eight months, and is the most destructive flood in the history of the United ...

DJ Shadow at Boulder Theater: An exercise in evolution

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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 living afterlife

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The latest offering from celebrated Detroit post-punk outfit Protomartyr begins with a grim salutation: “Welcome to the haunted earth / the living afterlife,” vocalist...

Two captains, one ship

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On the morning of the Women’s March in January, Tennis lead singer Alaina Moore was at the airport on her way to rehearsal. Slightly...

Dance

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Firefall at the Louisville Downtown Street Faire...

Boulder Chamber Orchestra presents music grown from friendship

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David A. Jaffe’s new Violin Concerto grew out of a friendship between the composer and a Colorado violinist. Karen Bentley Pollick, who lives in Evergreen,...