Music
Breaking the mold
After beginning its career playing basements and sleeping in vans, Atlanta-based metal outfit Mastodon has, over the course of its roughly decade-long career, become one of the most important and dominating metal bands in the country...
SLIDESHOW: Warren Haynes at the Ogden Theatre, Oct. 31
Boulder Weekly's Jeremy Williams was at the Warren Haynes show at the Ogden Theatre. Check out the photos he brought back.
Funk is Dead
When we first saw the marquee bill for this year’s gig, Dave Watts and the Motet tribbing-up the Dead, the first thing that hit us was — wait, Watts is covering one of the unfunkiest bands in pop music lore, daring to navigate the meanderings of post-psychedelic, ...
Intrigue and murder mystery wrapped up in a requiem
A reclusive count living in a remote castle...
REVIEW: Trentemøller @ the Ogden Theater, Oct. 21
Leaves are becoming crispy and the chill of night creeps ever earlier into the sunlight. Yes, it’s time to ditch the summery tunes and head for colder territory, and Trentemøller’s show at the Ogden was definitely a solid shiver. The Danish group creates powerful, ...
SLIDESHOW: Five Finger Death Punch at the 1stBank Center
Photographer Justin Kalvin snapped some pictures at the Five Finger Death Punch concert this past Saturday. Check them out.
Mystery music man
In 1994, Portishead dropped an album that would cement trip-hop as a legitimate genre of music and make stars out of Beth Gibbons, Geoff Barrow and Adrian Utley. Although the band detested the “trip-hop” label, their debut album Dummy defined the genre. Filled with ...
When you don’t want the spotlight
Alexi Murdoch does his own thing. It just happens to be getting picked up by the mainstream and put on national TV...
One-handed piano
When pianist Leon Fleisher and the Irish Chamber Orchestra (ICO) comes to Boulder next Tuesday, be prepared for fireworks...
SLIDESHOW: Roger Daltrey rocks the 1stBank Center
Roger Daltrey played the 1stBank Center in Broomfield on Sunday, Oct. 16. Check out Boulder Weekly photographer Jules Kueffer's pictures from the performance.
REVIEW, SLIDESHOW: Amon Tobin at Boulder Theater, Oct. 18
Bravo, Amon Tobin. That is how you put on a transcendental light show. I feel like I just witnessed Berlioz conducting his Symphonie Fantastique.The ISAM installation is a gorgeous and unprecedented display of technological mastery featuring Amon Tobin. With Tobin ...
Revisiting a classic
The Who’s rock opera Tommy is now more than 40 years old. But one won’t hear Who singer Roger Daltrey accepting the notion that this piece of music, or for that matter, Who music in general, is something that falls into the realm of nostalgia or oldies...