Music

With shades of ‘Trane

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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...

All that jazz is good for you

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Oscar Wilde believed that “most people are other people.” He never met Adam Bodine...

Emerging from the shadows

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Karen Elson on being the musician who is Jack White’s wife Karen Elson is not Jack White’s wife. Well, technically she is, but the famous model-turned-musician lives under a looming shadow of attachment to The White Stripes that seems a bit unfair. Perhaps ...

Life under Duran Duran

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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 ...

Ludwig’s everywhere

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It´s a good week for Beethoven...

Celebrating women in classical music

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Cynthia Katsarelis, director of Pro Music Colorado Chamber Orchestra, is a storyteller...

Social Distortion’s latest will anger mal-adjusted fogies, please well-adjusted ones and...

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Social Distortion’s latest, Hard Times and Nursery Rhymes, is a maturity test of sorts. After all, Social D has been playing its unique brand of hard luck punk rock since the early 1980s. Give any band — let alone a punk band — 30 years, and they’re either going to ...

Scotland sojourn: Pro Musica Colorado retraces Mendelssohn’s misty journey

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"It’s really amazing to me how atmospheric this wonderful composition is...

Music on the electronic frontier

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Jamie Janover is a guy who’ll tell you that you can’t do everything all at once, and then proceed to more or less prove himself wrong...

Train’s on schedule

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Members of local bluegrass fusion band Mountain Standard Time migrated from around the country before they collected in the beloved Front Range mountain town of Nederland. The group has self-proclaimed their sound as “Rocky Mountain free grass,” avoiding ...

Low profile, high standards

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Brandi Carlile is one of those rare musicians who gets it. She’s not up on stage every night trying to be a rock star, the tabloids aren’t all that interested in her, and she’s not constantly making a ruckus or ticking people off with her grandstanding or childish ...

Hail to the chiefs

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It has been 19 years since The Presidents of the United States of America first broke into the pop charts with the 13 turbo-charged pop oddities that comprised their self-titled debut. Songs like “Lump,” “Peaches,” and “Boll Weevil,” were short, fast, loud, catchy as...