Music
SLIDESHOW: Five Finger Death Punch at the 1stBank Center
Photographer Justin Kalvin snapped some pictures at the Five Finger Death Punch concert this past Saturday. Check them out.
Do it in the Dirt
The members of the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band make up one of those musical ensembles that has always defied category. For hyphen-happy reviewers, there never seemed to be enough dashes to capture the band’s ever-evolving essence...
Gallery: Sharon Jones, Grace Potter rule Ogden Theatre
Tuesday night at the Ogden Theatre in Denver was a night for iron-lunged female singers armed with voices so powerful they should be regulated by the Department of Defense...
Time for Three makes time for Boulder
Despite their impossibly booked schedule, the gentlemen of Time For Three always make time for Boulder — this time they’ll drop by the Boulder Theater on Jan. 8 for a fundraiser concert for the Colorado Music Festival & Center for Musical Arts...
Little by little
Images of grizzly cubs traipsing and tumbling through lush Alaskan meadows are set to meandering and mesmerizing piano melodies. Large grizzlies stand on the...
Mason Reed falls prey to his own pretension
The most on-target aspect of hippie-blues rocker Mason Reed’s latest EP, You Can’t Come Back From Heaven, is the CD packaging. The cover features a slightly dazed Reed looking resolutely through his aviators and out the windshield of a blurry automobile. Sun-...
When rock is illegal
Land of the free, sure, but every once in a great while, there will be a story in local and national media that details an American artist’s struggle against censorship. If an artist is in fact fined or jailed, the general response of many Americans is pure outrage ...
Jimmy Herring’s event horizon
Is that lawnmower bothering you?” Jimmy Herring asks during our phone interview a few weeks ago. “There’s a guy cutting the grass next door,...
CU’s Eklund Opera presents a Victorian-era ghost story
The next production of the University of Colorado Eklund Opera Program, Benjamin Britten’s The Turn of the Screw, is a Victorian-era ghost story. Whether...
The wisdom of Wilco
Wilco is a chameleon band. The group’s sound has changed dramatically in the 17 years since the release of its first L.P., A.M. Anchored by guitarist and songwriter Jeff Tweedy, Wilco bridges country, rock and alternative genres with grace and ease, and the once-...
