Music
Time signatures and space
Going boldly where few choirs ever do, Boulder’s Ars Nova Singers and conductor Thomas Edward Morgan love to explore strange new worlds of vocal performance...
Low profile, high standards
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 ...
REVIEW: Technicolor Tone Factory at the Fox Theatre
The first week of school can be rough, as students are only half-awake from the slumber of winter break. When nary a soul was at the Fox Theatre when the doors opened for Boulder group Technicolor Tone Factory's show on Friday night, could school have gotten the best...
An icon sounds off
Crosby, Stills & Nash fans already knew last summer that the group had an unusual new studio CD in the works — a collection of covers of songs from other artists...
Gallery: Method Man and Redman at the Fox
Doc and Meth were in the flesh last night at the Fox Theatre. Enjoy the Jules Kueffer's photos from the show.
Electronic Mayhem: Communikey offers interactive electronic music experience
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...
Bird of a different feather
Listening to Andrew Bird’s music, one is struck by its tender grace...
Bayou burden
It's not the stuff on the TV Louisiana bluesman Tab Benoit’s singing about. Not the “may cause side effects,” hyper-disclaimered, check-with-your-doctor-first gel cap in the reassuringly pastel boxes...
Seabird flies into town
Usually bands — and their labels — try to milk their newfound success for all they can before moving on to another record, so it was something of a surprise when Seabird recently released their sophomore album, Rocks Into Rivers, a mere 18 months after their 2008 ...
Dark times make good music
Few people would have blamed the Deftones if the group’s new CD, Diamond Eyes, had been a dark and depressing album. The fact is, much of the past decade has not been kind to the group...