Music
Elephant Revival splits the sky with “Break In The Clouds”
There are some voices that reach out through the speakers and beg everyone in the room to stop their conversations for a moment and just listen. Elephant Revival’s Daniel Rodriguez has such a voice. It’s a timeless folk voice, deep and hearty, weathered but ...
The gravitational pull of Zimmer
Two black holes circling each other deep in space, going round and round until they finally collide. The impact sends waves rippling out into...
Dead Tenant comes to Boulder
Johann Sebastian Bach wrote Chaconne in D Minor between 1717 and 1723. In August 2013, Dead Tenant uploaded Chaconne in D Minor as performed on an electric guitar to YouTube...
Climate classicism
What’s the sound of a biosphere on the brink? For Drew Hemenger, the answer to that question lies in a multitude of voices. That’s why...
‘Punch your way into the party’
Author Erin K. Barnes, who writes under the pen name GoGo Germaine, calls herself a “pretty typical Coloradan.” But the adolescent at the center...
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...
The Word wants to inspire you
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 ...
Rebound band
The demise of Nate Cook’s old band, local favorites Ego Vs Id, did little to derail the 25-year-old’s musical momentum...
Back to school bash
Boulder Weekly hosts a concert on Friday at the Fox Theatre welcoming students to town with Boulder’s Only Back to School Bash, an event free to anyone with a student ID. The ushers escorting students into another year of collegiate life will be Colorado-based rap ...
We know why the flightless bird shreds
Famously, or infamously, the story goes that Buckethead didn’t pass an informal audition to be Ozzy Osbourne’s guitarist at Ozzfest some years ago. Not...
‘Mahler at the top of the mountain’
Mahler, it is well known, loved to hike in the Alps. So it is fitting that Kenneth Woods, the brand new artistic director of...
Designated musican
When actor Kiefer Sutherland first thought of demoing songs he had written, he wasn’t planning to be the person releasing them.
“I had written them awhile...
