Music

Music has always been an important part of Mary Lambert’s life. Her mom was a songwriter, and since she was 6 years old she can remember writing songs as a way to escape the harsh realities of abuse she was living through...

Stockholm Syndrome’s new album Apollo lurches into life as Jerry Joseph wails about walking the streets at 3 a.m. in a “blood-red cowboy shirt … dodging a couple of ghosts...

Bands are chemistry experiments, and the introduction of a couple new elements can change the mix in not readily apparent ways. Dr. Dog has been together for more than a dozen years and released six albums of widescreen psych-pop, redolent of hooks and rather ...

It will be a Charlie Brown Christmas when the Turtle Island Quartet and jazz vocalist Tierney Sutton take the stage at Macky Auditorium at 4 p.m. on Sunday, Dec. 15...

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If you couldn’t already tell from listening to his music, Michael Franti isn’t afraid to wear his emotions right on his sleeve. He even confesses he still cries every time he watches the final scene in the film Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory...

In 1984, Frank Zappa released his landmark live album Does Humor Belong In Music? Based on the state of pop music over the past two-and-ahalf decades, the answer has been an overwhelming no. Aside from a few sardonic cracks from clever indie bands like the Hold ...

Leaves are becoming crispy and the chill of night creeps ever earlier into the sunlight. Yes, it’s time to ditch the summery tunes and head for colder territory, and Trentemøller’s show at the Ogden was definitely a solid shiver. The Danish group creates powerful, ...

Not that we’d know anything about this, but sometimes the hardest part of getting a piece of work done is just starting it, getting the wheels turning, finding a way in while being stared at by a blank page waiting for a lead sentence, or that first brushstroke, or ...

For a list of classical music concerts happening during the holiday season in Boulder, click here...

Talking with guitarist/songwriter Oliver Wood about his collaboration with brother Chris Wood last week, we couldn’t help but summon the legacy of (in)famous brother gigs in pop music history. The Davies … the Gallaghers … the Knopflers … Well, OK, it was the knock...

As the opening date for Prometheus, Ridley Scott’s long-awaited return to the Alien mythos, approaches, we are reminded of that elegantly ominous scene in the original: after Yaphet Kotto has right-crossed Ash’s cyber-head off its twitching body, the crew members ...