Music
Gas Pops, revisited
Anyone familiar with Clay Rose’s songwriting knows his favorite themes: dancing with, or running from, personal demons, testing the limits of mortality, sin and...
Tone of voice
More than 30 years after the release of Passion and Warfare, Steve Vai’s landmark instrumental solo album and an essential component of the instrumental...
Still alive
As Pearl Jam’s two-and-a-half-hour, tour-closing show at Ball Arena concluded last night and the Seattle rock group stood on stage thanking fans and crew,...
Branching out
The next time you bemoan a bad driver in Boulder with a Texas license plate, or see another “Go Back to Texas and Tell...
‘Sweaty Greeley Soul’
A music pastor and a trumpet player walk into a bar. It’s May of 2013, and Johnny Burroughs — a licensed minister — is...
Parlando School of Musical Arts brings pop music to Pearl Street
Parlando is an Italian word meaning “to speak” — and the voices behind Boulder’s Parlando School of Musical Arts ring out loud and clear....
Rodrigo y Gabriela’s epic intimacy comes to Chautauqua
Mexican acoustic duo Rodrigo y Gabriela might not be the first act that comes to mind when you think classic rock. But when the...
The upswing always comes
Adam Granduciel is restless. Every day the 43-year-old lead guitarist and vocalist for The War on Drugs wakes up buzzing with the urge to...
‘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...
Phish still loves Dick’s
In its decade-plus of annual (save for 2020) performances at the 20,000-capacity Dick’s Sporting Goods Park outside Denver, the Vermont-jamrock band Phish has provided...
Hustling in the high country
Jamgrass is often associated with the state of Colorado, which has given birth to many of the genre’s well-acclaimed groups, including Leftover Salmon, the...
