Music

Parlando School of Musical Arts brings pop music to Pearl Street

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Parlando is an Italian word meaning “to speak” — and the voices behind Boulder’s Parlando School of Musical Arts ring out loud and clear....

A constant kick in the ass

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With a studio album, For All Kings, having arrived last year, Anthrax is following up a fall tour opening for Slayer with a current...

You can’t outfox the Fox

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It was 1994, and Don Strasburg was walking (running, depending on who tells the story) around his Boulder home with a 101 Dalmatians bed...

MahlerFest XXXI includes chamber and orchestra concerts with a focus on...

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The 31st MahlerFest is all about late artistic transformations. The 2018 festival begins Monday, May 14, and culminates Saturday and Sunday, May 19 and 20,...

Winter is coming… and that’s OK

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Sometimes (OK, most of the time), turning out like our parents isn’t such a bad thing. Take, for example, fiddler player Natalie Padilla (that’s...

The Young Veins keep it light and nostalgic

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What Paul Simon is to Vampire Weekend, The Beatles are to The Young Veins. On their debut Take A Vacation! the band serves as a throwback machine that incessantly pumps out song after song of fun and catchy retro-pop in the same — well — vein of the music that made ...

Revisiting a classic

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The Who’s rock opera Tommy is now more than 40 years old. But one won’t hear Who singer Roger Daltrey accepting the notion that this piece of music, or for that matter, Who music in general, is something that falls into the realm of nostalgia or oldies...

Inspired by the earth

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For the Boulder Philharmonic, the 2013–14 season is all about nature...

Octopus Nebula brings a different electronic groove

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There’s an almost sinister grace that pervades Octopus Nebula and their limber, unforced sleepwalk through deep groove electronica. OK, it’s not rocket science; a quartet of live players, all more or less graduates from groove scenes of varying success and commitment...

Contests part of RockyGrass tradition

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Through a bluegrass career spanning nearly four decades, Tim O’Brien has played on many stages and with numerous players, but RockyGrass holds a special place in his heart. Hell, he’s performed there 28 times, which is why organizers asked him to fill the final slot ...

High guru of shock rock

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Marilyn Manson doesn’t want to be shocking. In fact, he says that’s impossible...