Music
The Pharcyde
Thursday, February 27: The Pharcyde. 9 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1128 13th St., Boulder, 303-447-0095...
Summer sounds
Colorado`s summer music festivals have folded up their tents. School is starting, but the weather tells us that fall hasn’t arrived yet. And thanks to Boulder’s Dairy Center for the Arts and the chamber music consortium Astraios, audiences can have one last ...
Winning musicianship
To be completely candid, we missed most of the Grammy Awards a couple of weeks ago, except for the segment where the ever camera-shy Madonna seemed to be commanding a legion of worshipping satyrs, a spectacle made only more surreal with the sound off at our local gym...
Musical lightning
“I would say it’s magic,” Dead Weather singer Alison Mosshart says when asked how her fledgling band has created two critically acclaimed albums in less than a year. “The whole fact that there’s this band now called the Dead Weather is pretty bizarre to all of us, ...
Queens of the Stone Age reissue landmark album
Rated R put Queens of the Stone Age on the rock map as a force to be reckoned with in 2000. Led by singer-guitarist-songwriter Josh Homme and bassist Nick Oliveri, both of influential stoner-metal band Kyuss, Queens of the Stone Age went on to produce some of the ...
Recording the next chapter
As the soul-streaked strains of Todd Park Mohr’s voice laments the laws of love and justice on the band’s new single “Beautiful,” carried on the wings of one of modern rock’s most effortlessly nimble rhythm sections, it feels as if the Monsters are back again...
Classically ambitious
Very few pianists follow a full recital program with a 20-minute encore...
Super slash
If you’ve been waiting to see jazz/ funk/rock group Garage A Trois in concert, you’ll have to forgive the quartet for being so busy. After all, each member is spinning multiple plates, which is why they’re so popular in the first place. Yet Skerik wouldn’t have it ...
Ghosts of blues past
That’s not a coat that Otis Taylor is wearing on the cover of his latest CD, Contraband, released on Telarc a couple of months ago. Not a Sasquatch costume, not a blaxploitation set piece...
A feast for the soul
It seems too soon, but it’s here — that subtle change in the evening air that suggests the shift from summer to autumn is nearing. We’ve just transitioned out of what the Old Farmer’s Almanac considers the oppressively hot “dog days of summer,” and a reprieve from ...
Tonight’s Ra Ra Riot show cancelled
Ra Ra Riot has cancelled tonight's show at the Fox Theatre due to illness...
