Music
Playing through the pain
Katie Herzig reflects back on everything she had to endure before making her new record, Walk Through Walls — especially the death of her mother in 2011, as she was preparing for her last tour. Herzig is candid about one of her biggest fears...
Yeats and beyond
Mike Scott has been heading up The Waterboys for three decades now, with plenty of the usual rock band personnel turnover to be expected of an enterprise this well-tenured, but his latest songwriting collaborator won’t be joining him on the road on his current tour. ...
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Thursday, May 15, Doe Eye, 7:30 p.m., $10, The Walnut Room, 3131 Walnut St., Denver, 303-295-1868...
Leaving on a high note
We lead angelic lives,%u2028 Yet have a merry time of it besides. We dance and we spring,%u2028 We skip and we sing.%u2028 Saint Peter in heaven looks on...
Back to school bash
Boulder Weekly hosts a concert on Friday at the Fox Theatre welcoming students to town with Boulder’s Only Back to School Bash, an event free to anyone with a student ID. The ushers escorting students into another year of collegiate life will be Colorado-based rap ...
An orchestra of one
Zoë Keating is not your typical cellist. Instead of performing with an orchestra, she marries her cello to a variety of loopers, pedals and laptops to create a layered cello experience which makes her a one-woman orchestra. But as much as she relishes her ongoing ...
Channeling Fela
Motet founder and drummer Dave Watts had just wrapped up rehearsal when we caught him last week, sounding a bit drained. And for good reason: his day job franchise The Motet had finished a swing through Texas and, connected by a two-plane redeye to Utah, a ski town ...
Big Gigantic rolls up its sleeves
By this time, while most of the national press has moved on and the TV cameras are all wearing local station logos, and chocolate-brown waters are lazily carrying pieces of Boulder County toward the Missouri River, Colorado’s northern Front Range communities are ...
moe. blows out a few candles
About three weeks ago, the dutiful webmaster running moe.’s homepage linked to a piece lauding the band’s long-tenured moe.down festival, held in upstate New York, as one of the world’s best music festivals, putting the low-key and locally beloved event alongside ...
