Music

The Kronos Quartet, always bold, brings Boulder artists to Boulder for their appearance at Macky Auditorium at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 8...

TAYLOR SWIFT, who says she looks at albums as “sort of statements,” has sold an awful lot of albums this year. The unabashedly pop (as opposed to country-pop, her previous focus) 1989 sold more than a million albums in its first week and has spent a total of 29 weeks...

Stephen Malkmus, with his three-piece band the Jicks, was pretty masterful last night at the Gothic Theatre in Denver, playfully soloing over '60s-influenced indie-rock with a much more psychedelic, and musically challenging, vibe than Pavement, the band he founded ...

For some, the bulk of popular music in the 1980s is looked back upon as a mere punch line. Flock of Seagulls? Michael Jackson and Paul McCartney doing “Say Say Say”? Poison? Bob Dylan hamming it up in a tacky video that found him earnestly singing, “What’s a ...

 After six years of almost non-stop concert tours, with more than 15 million CDs sold, Las Vegas band The Killers decided they needed a break. Their hiatus, except for an upcoming Christmas single, has provided the opportunity for their charismatic lead singer, ...

The day started with a press release chirping gleefully in our inbox that OK Go’s new video for “White Knuckles” was in its last hours of labor and heading for its cyber C-section...

Artists work in solitude...

Denver singer Marnie Ward’s grandfather fought in World War II. Her father fought in Vietnam. She wasn’t a military kid per se, but that family history did instill in Ward an appreciation for the sacrifices service members make...

Leftover Salmon’s Vince Herman found out about the Fourmile Canyon fire while touring — his Nederland house was in the evacuation zone, but didn’t burn — and since returning to Boulder, he has yet to survey the now-torched land...

Rostam Batmanglij, keyboardist/ vocalist for Vampire Weekend, was trying to sum up the differences between the band’s new CD, Contra, and its 2008 self-titled debut disc when he hit upon something that seemed to fit. “I remember someone told us that they thought ...

It may not matter to most listeners that John McLaughlin’s latest CD To The One is a tribute of sorts to a virtuoso of another time...

Sometimes, when you bring people together from different cultures, they may not be able to talk to one another, but they can communicate through music,” says Manuel Molina...