Music
Genre jumper
Afronauts bassist Eric Keeney is a self-proclaimed music geek. For much of his life as a musician, he played in bands that cater to music geeks — complex and technically impressive, but not necessarily conducive to an all-night dance party. That all changed, however...
Keen sensibilities
Robert Earl Keen has long made his own rules. He’s also willing to break them...
Prominent guests come to CU to join Leonard Bernstein celebration
The University of Colorado College of Music has joined the rest of the musical world to celebrate the centennial of the unique American composer,...
Robert on the bus
Discipline Global Mobile, known on the interwebs as DGM, is King Crimson founder and self-admittedly pitiless autocrat Robert Fripp’s label and media organization, responsible...
Found Sounds: Nov. 10, 2022
What’s in Boulder’s headphones this week? From reigning champ T-Swift to newcomers Ghost Funk Orchestra, these are the albums flying off the shelves at...
The tribal music of our time
Anthropologists debate the exact reason why humans created music — Darwin believed music was produced as sexual enticement; others say it was a way to strengthen the bonds of a community...
Is Eric Johnson learning to relax?
Anyone following the career of Austinbased guitarist Eric Johnson has learned to reconcile the guitarist’s singular fretboard mastery with his sluggish pace of releasing recordings. Johnson endured years of interview questions about his notorious perfectionism (...
Pigs on the Wing have Animal instincts
Most iconic rock bands from the 1970s, at least those that lasted long enough to still cast a visible shadow 30 or 40 years downstream, can usually be defined by neatly circumscribed periods, whether as a result of personnel changes, commercial ascendency or artistic...
Boulder bluegrass icon Hot Rize returns to roots
Colorado is well known for its folksy bluegrass scene. Bands like Leftover Salmon, The String Cheese Incident and Yonder Mountain String Band sell out shows all along the Front Range, and Colorado is also home to the yearly, highly-successful RockyGrass festival that...
