Music

Postcards from fault line

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Robert Plant did it with an achin’ in his heart. The Donner Party did it at the wrong time of year and an achin’ in their stomachs. But guitarist Blake Rooker says that going to California was a bash for West Water Outlaws...

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 ...

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 ...

Blog bands in Neverland

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The Lost Boys of Neverland occupy their days by living in the woods, harassing washed-up pirates, hanging out with mermaids, and occasionally scrapping with the natives before reconciling over a peace pipe. They generally did and said the things that a mob of ...

REVIEW: Fleet Foxes at Fillmore Auditorium, July 21

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Fleet Foxes make music that hearkens back to the most euphoric of ’60s folk music, and the final product sounds like a blend of America and Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young with a touch of Nick Drake. The intricate arrangements on the band's self-titled 2006 debut LP ...

Pickin’ over yonder

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Yonder Mountain String Band is one of the Boulder area’s most recent, and resounding, success stories. During the band’s 13-or-so-year history, YMSB — guitarist Adam Aijala, bassist Ben Kauffman, mando player Jeff Austin and banjo player Dave Johnston, who all came ...

Electronic Mayhem: Communikey offers interactive electronic music experience

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 Grown organically from a decade of electronic music, this week’s Communikey Festival of Electronic Arts will build cultural bridges between audiences, performers and continents with more ambition than ever before...

Ludwig’s everywhere

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It´s a good week for Beethoven...

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...

Celebrate

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BBQ, Blues, and Brews...

Performance plus music

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People who see He’s My Brother She’s My Sister can expect the band to be able to faithfully reproduce the songs from their recently released full-length debut CD, Nobody Dances In This Town, in a live setting...