Music
Scratching the surface
People often describe Arooj Aftab’s music as mystical or meditative, both terms the singer, composer and producer resists. She finds it all a bit...
Steve Conn reconnects
Steve Conn is one of those serial Boulderites. The legendary musician has moved to town, left Boulder, regretted it and then returned … repeatedly.
“I...
Phone down, eyes up, hearts open
Goose’s Peter Anspach on the raw magic of improvisational live music
Peaches teaches
When the iconic, multi-talented Peaches (born Merrill Nisker) answered our recent Zoom call, she was lounging in a sunny Los Angeles backyard, playing with...
Let’s sing it out
During our conversation, Carlos Medina walks around Coyoacán, a “folkloric” neighborhood in Mexico City, known for its cobblestone streets, art galleries, Frida Kahlo Museum...
Just a wink of the eye
When you call up Primus bassist and singer-songwriter Les Claypool, it’s tough to know where to start the conversation. His work with Oysterhead, the...
Slow Motion Sickness
Denver’s The Patient Zeros release their grandest work to date—seven years in the making
The long strange trip abides
Call it Grateful Dead 2.0: How the counterculture became mainstream
Growin’ ‘Grass
50 years later, RockyGrass in Lyons has become one of America’s great bluegrass festivals
Roll another one
As a child growing up in Pennsylvania, Alexandra Schwan had no idea that she would eventually join musical forces in Colorado with another native...