Music
Lionel Young
Saturday, December 28: The Lionel Young Band. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 North Park Drive, Lafayette, 303- 665-2757...
Sweet sounds of Sweden
There’s nothing that compares to Scandinavian pop. Whether it’s a deep appreciation of the arts, the stunning landscape all around or the harsh winter season that forces songwriters inside to write for much of the year, the region produces some of the most beautiful ...
Grandoozy these artists
One of the great joys of going to a big music festival is finding new music. Denver’s Grandoozy festival is offering more than 50...
A mix of operas large and small drives the season at...
Pelham Pearce, general/artistic director of Central City Opera (CCO), insists, “there is method to my madness!”
The madness is expecting audiences to attend opera high...
Americana deluxe
When Rob Ickes takes the stage at Boulder’s Chautauqua Community House with Trey Hensley on Dec. 4, the first few rows will likely be...
Brazillians
Thursday, July 31-Sunday, Aug. 3: Colorado Brazil Festival, multiple venues, Boulder, 303- 443-8696...
Luna phase
Drifting through our back pages prior to a chat with Luna’s Dean Wareham last week, we were mildly astonished to see that our last...
The million-dollar question
For Craig Ferguson, the million-dollar question isn’t when live music gatherings will happen this year.
“The real question for everybody paying attention ... is whether...
Incarnated as indie darlings, the Pixies continue to wow
It’s true, there was great American rock in the years leading up to grunge, but the reason sweetly fierce alt-hardcore bands like the Pixies never made it big in the mainstream is complicated. Sure, if Black Francis had been a little younger, a little more attractive...
Review: Arcade Fire at 1stBank Center
The members of Arcade Fire, with their equally Clash-inspired bombast and army-fatigues wardrobe, surely never imagined back in 2004 — when the indie-rock group’s devastatingly powerful debut, Funeral, became an underground sensation — that they’d be headlining ...
Winter is coming… and that’s OK
Sometimes (OK, most of the time), turning out like our parents isn’t such a bad thing. Take, for example, fiddler player Natalie Padilla (that’s...


















