Music

For a large segment of the pop-music audience who graduated from the waning days of MTV video dominance, Richard Marx, the Chicago-bred singer/songwriter/multi-instrumentalist, will probably be forever associated with a lengthy catalog of late ’80s and ’90s hits, ...

In November 2010, Otis Taylor, Boulder’s grizzled guitar-wielding and banjo-slinging statesman of the blues, found himself with some rare time off between bouts of playing his signature trance blues in Europe. The 11-time Blues Music Awards nominee decided to bring ...

If you’ve ever heard any of Jason Isbell’s songs, chances are you know what he believes. The acclaimed singer-songwriter is known for being direct,...

Peter Alexander: My first thought when I heard about this work was, knowing the scope of time in which geologists think, you will really have to compress things in the symphony! Yes, the earth has rhythms, but…Jeffrey Nytch: Well, that’s right, in fact in the work ...

When you look at it, it’s called a ‘bluegrass festival,’ but it’s a wide-open music festival,” says mandolin great Sam Bush. “I’ve seen everything from Little Feat to Paco de Lucia to Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson to Bill Monroe to Ralph Stanley. Just last year they ...

 It´s hard to picture the two guys who wrote “Waving My Dick In The Wind” and “Spinal Meningitis” settling into suburban family life, but time has a way of imposing its will on everyone, even Gene and Dean Ween...

  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 ...

Robert Olson has changed the Longmont Symphony, and the Longmont Symphony has changed him. “I’m very, very proud of what we’ve done over three decades,”...

Katherine “KP” Paul didn’t mean to write an album in the uncertain summer of 2020, but homecomings have a knack for surprise. Known by...

What a difference a year makes. Twelve months ago, Mark Foster was trying not to embarrass himself as he played alongside his bandmates in Foster the People at South by Southwest. This year, they’re ready to tour the world after playing the famed Austin music ...

Boulder’s self-proclaimed non-genre-conforming band Magic Beans has been around the block once or twice — after 10 years together, their sound has continued to...

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...