Music
Idaho’s Finn Riggins continue their indie-pop roll
Idaho indie wunderkinds Finn Riggins are...
Boulder Phil offers a variety of public events
The Boulder Philharmonic and composer Missy Mazzoli will have a busy week Feb. 6-12.
Mazzoli, who visits Boulder courtesy of a Music Alive Composer Residency,...
Ska hooks and lines
Be ready for instant action when Reel Big Fish takes the stage — no matter where or when...
Eclectic violins
If the months-long Colorado Music Festival (CMF) were a gourmet restaurant, the spécialité de la maison would be the mini-festival that each year occupies a central place in the schedule...
Pro Musica Colorado looks ahead and back
The Pro Musica Colorado will look both forward and back in their 2015–16 season, which music director Cynthia Katsarelis and the orchestra call “Remembrance...
30db creates music from personal hardships
For Jeff Austin, the mandolinist for Yonder Mountain String Band, the new group he has formed by teaming up with Umphrey’s McGee lead singer Brendan Bayliss is completely unlike anything he has done before, and that’s the way he likes it...
Music, community and fire
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...
The Record of a year
Working from home has its advantages. For singer-songwriter, husband-wife duo The Weepies, a home studio allows for inspiration to strike at any time...
Death in Memphis
In her landmark 1977 book On Photography, Susan Sontag calls photographs a testament to “time’s relentless melt.” For the influential essayist and cultural critic,...
Haunted musical magic
Western sounds have filled the iconic Stanley Hotel on frozen January nights for nearly the last decade. Crowds in suits and gowns spill into...
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...
Eklund Opera presents ’the perfect Verdi opera’
Nicholas Carthy describes La traviata as “the perfect Verdi opera.”
Based on the 1848 novel by Alexandre Dumas, La Dame aux Camélias (The lady of...


















