Music

Crystal chandeliers glow coldly in the dark Fillmore Auditorium. On stage, Matt Berninger stands tall in a black suit, carefully caressing his glass of Bacardi. His band swarms around him in a cacophonous wave of composition...

Mahler, it is well known, loved to hike in the Alps. So it is fitting that Kenneth Woods, the brand new artistic director of...

Romance,” the next concert by the Boulder Chamber Orchestra (BCO), will offer music that is unfamiliar, yet comfortable for the audience...

Violinist Rachel Barton Pine and her ferocious intensity...

Completing an album can be like a life passage, closing one chapter and opening another. The third chapter in Sharon Van Etten’s recorded history, Tramp’s a haunting record that pushes out beyond the minimalist, emotionally raw folk of Van Etten’s first two albums. ...

Conductor Bahman Saless and the Boulder Chamber Orchestra (BCO) have a couple of holiday traditions. Every year they honor the December holidays as ecumenically as...

Chicago-based electro-soul producer Manic Focus is no stranger to the Colorado music scene. The man behind the moniker, John “JmaC” McCarten, has performed up...

Sofar Sounds secretive shows are an incubator for diverse talent

If Paul DeHaven’s first solo album, King of Gold, was a question, then his newest release, Echoes and Overtones, is an answer... of a...

For me, folk music is a drug, a truth serum of sorts. It has the ability to make me see my life for not only what it is but also what it could and should be. I suspect I’m not alone. The side effects of such inward clarity can’t be taken lightly. Too much of the ...

Ah, the holiday season. That wonderful time for your favorite carols, colored lights, egg nog and — ukuleles? Sure enough, it’s all part of the...

It’s a gray morning in Boulder — the fourth or fifth in a row — in mid May. It’s cold, but in a revitalizing...