Music

Blast from the past

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 When I was a teenager, I sweated out my adolescent angst in a barely listenable garage band like countless other young, hopeful musicians with grandiose visions of rock stardom...

Summer sonics

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Summer in Boulder County carries a distinct set of visuals: a windows-down drive through the mountains, a picnic at the foot of the Flatirons,...

Daybreak

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Life is a beautiful struggle,” begins the title-track of Swollen Members new album Brand New Day, which the hip-hop trio will be promoting at the Fox Theatre in Boulder on Thursday, May, 22. The lyric foreshadows an album embracing triumph over dark times...

REVIEW: Eliot Lipp at the Fox Theatre, Dec. 7

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For those who didn’t sweat the end of another semester, last...

The right kind of noise

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There seems to be a cultural (maybe generational) shift happening; musicians are forsaking the rigidity and structure of a single genre in favor of...

The only chip in the cookie

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Vance Gilbert is black. Vance Gilbert plays the acoustic guitar. Vance Gilbert does not play the blues. Most of us assume a black man...

A step into the unknown

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Todd Rundgren has long been known as an innovator within the music world. Savvy in technology, he designed the first-ever graphics tablet for Apple...

Back to the future

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Sunday, June 8: Opera on Tap presents Colorado Composes. 2 p.m. Pine Street Church, 1237 Pine St., Boulder, 303- 442-6530...

‘Good to see you’

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Dissonance isn’t exactly the first word that comes to mind when you think about Nickel Creek. But the progressive bluegrass outfit’s latest offering, Celebrants...

Nothing but changes for restless Murs

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Some guys worry about success and how to make it happen. Others simply do, channeling their ambition into creation, believing hard work and passion will take them wherever they need to go. Los Angeles-born rapper Nick Carter, aka Murs, is the latter such artist, ...

A live experiment

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Plenty of musicians say the live show is where their music really comes alive and songs can take on a new life, evolving into something different — and often better — than the versions fans are accustomed to hearing on a record...