Music

In late January, the dead came to visit Alain Johannes in his dreams. It certainly wasn’t the first time, but this time the guitarist himself...

In March 1975, Boulder County Clerk & Recorder Clela Rorex granted the first same-sex marriage license in the United States...

Colorado MahlerFest and the Boulder Bach Festival, longstanding institutions in Boulder, have major events Friday through Sunday, May 19-21. Both festivals started with annual performances...

To hear Vince Herman tell it, Great American Taxi’s second CD, that ever-dreaded sophomore effort thing, found itself looped out in the exhausted vagaries of a dysfunctional post-millennial record business. Just when people are getting back into actually making ...

Deerhoof concerts have always been uniquely fun, but lately more of a festive connection between band and audience has been on the quartet’s mind, according to singer/bassist Satomi Matsuzaki, who lived in her native Japan until the mid-’90s...

They  say God and the Devil are in the details, and in this case the details reveal a most unusual and intriguing program — one aimed directly at what the Boulder Philharmonic Orchestra calls “The Spirit of Boulder...

The Word is difficult to describe succinctly. The supergroup’s sound is a gospel-influenced musical fusion combining the talents of jazz pianist and organist John Medeski, southern blues/rock band North Mississippi Allstars and the soulful guitar sounds of Robert ...

There’s an almost sinister grace that pervades Octopus Nebula and their limber, unforced sleepwalk through deep groove electronica. OK, it’s not rocket science; a quartet of live players, all more or less graduates from groove scenes of varying success and commitment...

As June has given way to July, the heat index has inched up around Colorado. Boulder and Denver have seen their first handful of 90-degree days, with many more on the way. But coming from Phoenix, the Dead Winter Carpenters will kindly take Colorado’s summer sun...

Pianist Annie Booth has to think a minute or two to recall the last time she trundled her trio up the (unbuckled) highway to...

Photos by Jules Kueffer...

The Boulder Philharmonic and composer Missy Mazzoli will have a busy week Feb. 6-12. Mazzoli, who visits Boulder courtesy of a Music Alive Composer Residency,...