Music
Unity of style and identity
It seems that every month brings a new article announcing the demise of classical music...
Tried and true troubadours
These days, the word “troubadour” has become virtually synonymous with “singer.” Yet if you take a look back to medieval days when the word emerged, you’ll see that the original meaning was much less inclusive. In order to be classified as a troubadour, one couldn’t ...
The best albums of 2010
To quote John Lennon, “Another year is over and a new one just begun,” which means we meet again for Boulder Weekly’s annual “Best Albums of the Year.” A lot of truly great new music blessed our ears in 2010, but let me start by admitting 2010 didn’t exactly ...
Johnny O’s blues sky
Someone once said that the relative dearth of blues musicians around here is actually a weather thing; who can sing the blues under 300 annual days of sunshine...
Which house for witch house?
What do you get when you have a downtown warehouse with little city enforcement and a group of tenants whose primary addiction is art? You get Rhinoceropolis, a Denver D.I.Y. art establishment and anarchist commune that has been the city’s most fertile breeding ...
All that jazz is good for you
Oscar Wilde believed that “most people are other people.” He never met Adam Bodine...
Seizing the reins
The year 2010 was tough for many, but musically, Louisville singer-songwriter and coffee shop staple Jeremy Dion has been having a career year...
Punching back in
When she moved from San Diego to Boulder in 2007 my partner, Irene, was hoping to discover Colorado musicians who moved her as much as the reggae-tinged San Diego-based alt-folkie Beth Preston had. So one can imagine Irene’s surprise when she went grocery shopping at...
Hardcore plus electric equals skrillectrostep
Once an obscure corner of English electronic music, dubstep will likely become a mainstream American sound in a matter of months — look no further than dubstep champ Rusko talking production with Britney Spears for definitive evidence that the genre’s days in the ...
