Music

It has been 19 years since The Presidents of the United States of America first broke into the pop charts with the 13 turbo-charged pop oddities that comprised their self-titled debut. Songs like “Lump,” “Peaches,” and “Boll Weevil,” were short, fast, loud, catchy as...

Plenty of musicians say the live show is where their music really comes alive and songs can take on a new life, evolving into something different — and often better — than the versions fans are accustomed to hearing on a record...

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 ...

It´s a good week for Beethoven...

  For years now, the Curious Theatre Company has impressed me. Always serious but never pretentious, Curious pushes envelopes while never forgetting that the first rule of theater is — and no, it’s not that you do not talk about theater — that theater must ...

Last summer, the Boulder Theater and Fox Theatre joined forces under the name Z2 Entertainment, and this week’s First Annual  Blues & Roots Summit represents the most visible bloom on this new partnership. This inaugural festival represents what’s  possible when both...

Jesse Elliott — lead singer of the band These United States — has been coming out to the same little cottage in the woods of Michigan, a handful of yards from the shore of Lake Michigan, every year since his birth, so a number of experiences there have helped give ...

Buddy Guy’s new release, Rhythm & Blues, is a rarity in an era when EPs and singles are becoming popular formats to release new music. It’s a double album, 22 all-new tracks deep...

Check out photographer Dane Cronin's sweet, sweet pics from the May 5 Black Angels show at Fox Theatre. Click here for our preview of the show, where we interview frontman Alex Maas.

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Ziggy Marley wants people to get up, stand up and be heard, especially when it comes to genetically modified organisms (GMOs...

Members of local bluegrass fusion band Mountain Standard Time migrated from around the country before they collected in the beloved Front Range mountain town of Nederland. The group has self-proclaimed their sound as “Rocky Mountain free grass,” avoiding ...