Music
Keeping it real
In the music industry, where major record labels constantly turn out new pop hits reminiscent of something we heard the week before, great music doesn’t always make successful music. In this restrictive environment, musicians often have to balance commercial ...
Electronic community
As Communikey approaches its fifth year as a festival and its eighth year as an organization, founder, creative and managing director Kate Lesta is in disbelief over how the electronic music scene has changed in the past decade...
Getting old, then new again
Jamie Shields, keyboardist and founder of theNEWDEAL, was enjoying a break from the brain-lock cold last week. Well, what passes for a break from it in Toronto, anyway...
Studio savior
It’d be difficult not to hear an echo of Fleet Foxes shaggy Northwestern Pacific folk-pop or Elliott Smith’s strummy melancholia in the delicate chamber-folk beauty of Blind Pilot’s second album, We Are the Tide. The Portland sextet’s September release is a dramatic ...
Boulder Philharmonic reveals 2012-13 season
The Boulder Philharmonic will welcome back violinist Sarah Chang and the acrobatic Cirque de la Symphonie, present a tribute to Louis Armstrong, and feature Boulder composer Jeffrey Nytch as part of their 2012–13 season.The season of seven concert programs running ...
Leo Kottke
Thursday, February 20: Leo Kottke. 8 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030...
Goin’ swimmin’
When people say they eat, breathe and sleep something they love, it is usually hyperbole; not so with Michael Trent and Cary Ann Hearst, the husband-and-wife duo who make up the Charleston, S.C.-based Shovels & Rope. When it came to the making of their new album, ...
Luck happens
Sometimes all you can do is marvel at someone’s dumb luck, blessed fortune, or whatever you want to call it. Like the guy who wins the lottery because he picked one or two of the right numbers by mistake, the woman who hits the jackpot on her first pull on a slot ...
The passions of Bach
Bach’s St. John Passion is a dramatic musical work that tells the story of Jesus’ betrayal and crucifixion...
