Music
Throwin’ elbows
On Weekend Du Mort, when Boulder’s Dead Thing comes out in earnest to jiggle its head and look at its hands and dig the tie-dye...
HEAVY ROTATION: Jazz adjacent
A playlist of new(ish) songs with experimental leanings.
‘Black Treasure,’ by Zara McFarlane
British jazz singer Zara McFarlane explores her Jamaican heritage in this pulsating...
Rolling on into forever
Last fall, Nahko Bear carved time out of his schedule as the frontman of Medicine for the People to visit the Standing Rock Reservation...
The dark side of Poor Moon’s beautiful whimsy
The Baltimore dream-pop duo Beach House, which headlines the Boulder Theater on Sunday with some auxiliary musicians, has been steadily touring since its inception in 2004. The group’s silky indierock, as much Nico-era Velvet Underground as Euro-pop in the vein of ...
Stopping the clock
We asked Steve Morse — indisputably one of the planet’s most accomplished guitarists — if there were still parts of his own technique that...
Something Underground
Saturday, March 22: Something Underground. 8 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont 720- 297-6397...
Zoso’s Led Zeppelin tribute is, in some ways, better than the...
Dissertations have been written about tribute bands, which present a very cool opportunity to use the word “simulacra...
Life under Duran Duran
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 ...
Lettuce: Praise the master
On a cool and slightly overcast evening at Red Rocks, 37 years ago, Miles Davis was doing what he did in those days; which...
The horror
If fending off zombies sounds more appealing than hearing “Monster Mash” at another costume party, never fear: Boulder musicians have much to offer this Halloween. Acts like Devotchka, Paper Bird, The Motet and more are coming to town, offering Halloween-themed ...

















