Music

Wale looks ahead with ‘The Gifted’

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Rapper Wale has never made a secret of his desire to have each of his albums outsell the others and attain major popularity. He named his second album Ambition, after all...

Musical lightning

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“I would say it’s magic,” Dead Weather singer Alison Mosshart says when asked how her fledgling band has created two critically acclaimed albums in less than a year. “The whole fact that there’s this band now called the Dead Weather is pretty bizarre to all of us, ...

Music and theater

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At first glance, the Of Montreal/Janelle Monae tour seems to be somewhat of a odd pairing — the artsy Monae seems an unlikely counterpoint to indie glam-pop eccentrics Of Montreal — but they have more in common than first meets the eye...

More than your average bass player

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For Widespread Panic, it’s all about the flow...

Tommy Castro faces a midlife crisis

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Guitarist/songwriter Tommy Castro, one of the West Coast blues scene’s hardest-working and most ferociously engaging figures, swings back into Boulder tonight for a midweek gig at the Outlook. For a guy who plays the Blues Cruise once or twice a year and ...

Sharpening her sixth sense

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Contrary to what you may have seen or heard recently, not everything is going smoothly for Grace Potter & The Nocturnals these days...

Boulder Bach Festival returns to the B-Minor Mass, but differently

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Conductor Zachary Carrettin and the Boulder Bach Festival return to one of J.S. Bach’s masterworks of their repertoire on Sunday (Nov. 11), the Mass...

Professor turns virtuoso

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Getting a touring musician on the cell phone for a few minutes isn’t exactly rocket science these days, unless their GPS has taken a dive rolling through Sasquatch country or the van has blown a sidewall in a granite-lined mountain pass tunnel someplace, but it ...

Career change

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Plenty of young musicians decide to put college on hold to take a shot at having a career writing songs and performing...

Anti-Flag brings punk rock activism to town with latest tour

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Punk rock was born out of the need to challenge the status...

A busy classical weekend

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In September, there were two the same day; now Boulder will see three ensembles launch their seasons in the city’s crowded classical-music calendar on...

Grandoozy these artists

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One of the great joys of going to a big music festival is finding new music. Denver’s Grandoozy festival is offering more than 50...