Music

Completing an album can be like a life passage, closing one chapter and opening another. The third chapter in Sharon Van Etten’s recorded history, Tramp’s a haunting record that pushes out beyond the minimalist, emotionally raw folk of Van Etten’s first two albums. ...

Supergroup is a rather overused term. Publicists throw it around every time a number of musicians come together under a new identity or project. The New Pornographers might have it backwards, but they’ve nonetheless become such an entity all the same...

Jeremy Williams was at Thursday's Dead Floyd show at the Fox Theatre. Check out his photos below.

More than three decades ago, when Amy Ray began penning emotionally charged songs about social justice as one-half of the folk rock duo the Indigo Girls, fighting for same sex marriage wasn’t high on her list of priorities — despite being a lesbian...

Even for a guy named after a gun, Tech N9ne is aggressive...

What is it about Republican presidential candidates and their inability to choose a proper campaign song? It’s as if conservative ears have a special filter that only allows the words of an ironic chorus to make it into the candidate’s head while stripping out a song...

If something feels familiar about the latest from Chicago indie darlings Ratboys, that’s partly by design. Since its release in August, The Window —...

Afronauts bassist Eric Keeney is a self-proclaimed music geek. For much of his life as a musician, he played in bands that cater to music geeks — complex and technically impressive, but not necessarily conducive to an all-night dance party. That all changed, however...

Steve Conn is one of those serial Boulderites. The legendary musician has moved to town, left Boulder, regretted it and then returned … repeatedly.  “I...

I let my 12-year-old serve as DJ on the way to the Gorillaz show at Ball Arena in Denver last night, and from Boulder...

As Charley Crockett drove out of the depths of Death Valley into a field of Joshua trees, the snow began to swirl. He had...

The members of the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band make up one of those musical ensembles that has always defied category. For hyphen-happy reviewers, there never seemed to be enough dashes to capture the band’s ever-evolving essence...