Music
A Pandora’s box of rock ‘n’ roll
Near-fatal car crashes, naked arm wrestling, runaway girlfriends and drummers, and even the unfortunate deaths of two dear friends. That’s the short story of Ego Vs Id’s debut album, Taste (Abattoir Records), recorded next to a strip club in Boulder over the past two...
Flowers in bloom
After six years of almost non-stop concert tours, with more than 15 million CDs sold, Las Vegas band The Killers decided they needed a break. Their hiatus, except for an upcoming Christmas single, has provided the opportunity for their charismatic lead singer, ...
Book of rhymes
For the first decade of its existence, rap music was deemed a fad, another pop culture trend to soon fade like disco and pet rocks. After rap music defied the prediction of its demise, its musicality came into question. Was it real music? After selling billions ...
In his own world
When we thanked Phish bassist Mike Gordon for taking a few minutes to chat us up last week on his day off, he corrects us...
We can rebuild it
Jesse Coppenbarger and Sean Kirkpatrick are the last men standing. Yet the lone remaining members of Colour Revolt’s early days are enjoying the creative breathing room offered by the departure of their former bandmates...
Yoko Ono: I never influenced John’s art
An exhibit of John Lennon's art is coming to Boulder today. Read about the exhibit here. Boulder Weekly caught up with the late Beatle's widow, Yoko Ono, to talk about the exhibit...
Imagining a better world
In 1970, Scotland Yard busted into the prestigious London Art Gallery, shutting down a newly opened show and seizing eight pieces of artwork deemed obscene by authorities. The confiscated lithographs, a relatively tame set of erotic nudes created by the artist for ...
Funky roots
For a guy who makes his living — hell, draws nearly his every breath — from da funk, it was only a matter of time before Dave Watts made this pilgrimage...
A kinder, gentler Ween
It´s hard to picture the two guys who wrote “Waving My Dick In The Wind” and “Spinal Meningitis” settling into suburban family life, but time has a way of imposing its will on everyone, even Gene and Dean Ween...
Symphony in a dream
Everyone loves a circus. Even at the symphony — in the temple of high culture...
