Music
Dance party at a storied venue
Red Rocks Amphitheatre is about to host a slam that will leave electronic music fans, and their glowsticks, spinning. The Glitch Mob...
Face to Face pens solid summer album
I’m not sure how I have remained completely and utterly unaware of Face To Face until now. They had a big time radio hit with “Disconnected” in 1994, which was back in the pre-iPod days of yore when I would still turn on the radio more than semi-annually. Plus, ...
Luck happens
Sometimes all you can do is marvel at someone’s dumb luck, blessed fortune, or whatever you want to call it. Like the guy who wins the lottery because he picked one or two of the right numbers by mistake, the woman who hits the jackpot on her first pull on a slot ...
Worlds of music
Michael Christie knows what he wants at Boulder’s Colorado Music Festival (CMF). “Variety is most important,” says the festival’s music director. “What we do is look off the beaten track and then throw in some element that’s surprising...
REVIEW: Bassnectar at Red Rocks
Bassnectar is exactly that — a sweet distillation of low-frequency pollens, collected from the flowers of many sizes and colors. And just like the name implies, the crystalline sugar that results from all that busy-bee gathering is always the king of the show. Seeing...
SLIDESHOW: Rose Hill Drive at the Bluebird Theater
Rose Hill Drive played the Bluebird Theater on Friday, June 17. The power trio-turned-quartet played mostly songs from their upcoming album, Americana, with a few throwbacks from the group's second album. They also covered The White Stripes' "Black Math." Check out ...
REVIEW AND SLIDESHOW: Dovekins at Astroland
Boulder-Denver gyspy-folk band Dovekins played to a packed room at Astroland last night. It was a night of folk melodies at Boulder's only do-it-yourself venue, as Dovekins' performance was preceded by acoustic sets by Paper Bird's Esme "Tiger" Collins, Denver ...
Changing signals
Yonnas Abraham, backbone and spirit of Denver hip-hop band The Pirate Signal, is starting over yet again. Over the years, his band has lost and gained members, had masters of an entire album stolen by a former collaborator, moved to New York City only to move back to...
School of Rock students learned well
Looking upon the stage from the top of Red Rocks Amphitheater, I saw a rock band decked to the nines in flared pants, tie-dye and bandanas. I heard what I presumed to be an adult opening act covering classic rock favorites — it wasn’t until I reached the front row ...
White Swan Records celebrates 20 years of yoga tunes
Yoga is a practice used by fans of fitness and spiritual gurus — and in most every class there is music playing in the background as limber bodies flex between postures. For the past 20 years, local record company White Swan Records has been distributing, recording ...