Music
Classically Boulder
The Colorado Music Festival has never shied from daring programming or bold ventures. Now in its 45th year, the six-week summer concert series at...
An orchestra’s VIP
If you have attended a classical orchestra concert, you’ve seen the concertmaster.
He or she enters after the rest of the orchestra is onstage, to...
Sweet like baklava
If you missed New Year’s the first time, Planina offers you another chance to celebrate...
Rap with strings attached
I haven’t done the research on this, but I don’t imagine Vivaldi’s “Spring” concerto is the ringback song on your average rapper’s cell phone.But call Jordan Polovina and you’ll see pretty quickly why he and the rest of Whiskey Blanket are not your average rappers....
Chicago band The Academy Is … shakes up its sound once...
The Academy Is ... isn't afraid of taking chances...
‘Life’s so fun’
When MUNA’s “Silk Chiffon” entered the world in late summer 2021, life was, in general, definitively not fun. But as society was preparing to...
Delta blues
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 ...
Drum and bass and metal is massive
Pendulum is, in one UK-inflected word, massive. So massive that the rock-electro hybrid, consisting of three core members and three touring live musicians, will spend nearly every day of February splitting up across the globe to facilitate heavy-hitting live shows in...
Moments of panic, averted
In This Moment may still be finishing up its touring cycle behind its fourth album, Blood, with the second leg of its “Hellpop” tour this January. But already, the band has mapped out the next phase of its career...
Portugal. The Man hits a stride with their latest, poppy album
You see a lot of unexpected buzz-band hyperbole in this business. Most of it is little more than well-meaning, thesaurus-clutching publicists trying to earn their keep, but when you read the Wall Street Journal hyping up a band as bearers of the best set at this year...
Daydream believers
Demi Demitro and Baby Pottersmith, singer-guitarist and co-drummer in the local rock trio the Velveteers, have been mostly inseparable since bonding over a reggae...

















