Music
Homeward bound for Pretty Lights
It might be a shame that Pretty Lights hasn’t enjoyed the same self-congratulatory media coverage given to fellow Colorado acts (cough, 3Oh!3, ahem) with a vapid “Look, they’re from Colorado!” type of praise. It would only be a shame if producer Derek Smith ever ...
Bahman Saless will take the night off from the BCO
Boulder Chamber Orchestra (BCO) has some holiday surprises planned for a concert Saturday (Dec. 21) that opens with music by Mozart. And one of...
Keep on truckin’
When the Drive-By Truckers went into the studio to make a record a couple years ago, the songs came out fast and furious. Make that a lot of songs came quickly, very quickly...
Classical music and classic musical madness
For years now, the Curious Theatre Company has impressed me. Always serious but never pretentious, Curious pushes envelopes while never forgetting that the first rule of theater is — and no, it’s not that you do not talk about theater — that theater must ...
Image Gallery: Pixies at Fillmore
Boulder Weekly's David Accomazzo was at the Fillmore, where the Pixies performed last night. Click here for a photo gallery.
Let the world hear
"To be honest, there’s probably a lot of people who would see my name and say, ‘Who is that? That sounds familiar,’” says singer/songwriter...
New directions
When Rachel Eckroth was an up-and-coming keyboardist in the jazz scene in Phoenix, Arizona, it was her father who took the teenaged Rachel to...
You had to be there
We’ve all been there before — awkwardly on the outside of an inside joke, waiting out the chorus of laughter and the inevitable, “You...
Fame is not the goal
In a way, Hanson has been laying the foundation for their upcoming orchestrally driven album, String Theory, since the “MMMBop” days.
That was 21 years...
Iron & Wine: A closet jam band?
When Iron & Wine took the stage at the Boulder Theater this weekend, the crowd, which looked like mostly couples in their late-20s, probably expected vocalist Samuel Beam and the band of more than 10 players to romance and enchant them into bliss.Instead, Beam’s ...
Two guys and a process
Update: The El Ten Eleven show at the Fox Theatre Feb. 8 has been canceled due to an injury to guitarist Kristian Dunn. The band is offering refunds for purchased tickets. For more information, see The Fox Theatre...
