Music
When you don’t want the spotlight
Alexi Murdoch does his own thing. It just happens to be getting picked up by the mainstream and put on national TV...
Another color in the crayon box
From coming out as a lesbian to her political activism to talking openly about her breast cancer diagnosis, Melissa Etheridge isn’t shy to tell the world about her personal problems. Honesty is the only way, she says. But she wasn’t always this way. Openness was her ...
Better living through grooves
The term “offshoring” has a lot of negative connotations these days, but not necessarily if you’re a tribogroove band...
Swing-fingers
Thursday, July 3: Blair Crimmins and The Hookers. 9 p.m. The Laughing Goat Coffeehouse, 1709 Pearl Street, Boulder...
Image Gallery: Pixies at Fillmore
Boulder Weekly's David Accomazzo was at the Fillmore, where the Pixies performed last night. Click here for a photo gallery.
Head For The Hills is rising
By just about any measure, Head for the Hills (H4TH) has had a pretty solid 2011. The Fort Collins-founded newgrass quartet unleashed a solid and surprising long-player last year, winning their second consecutive “Best Bluegrass Band” award from Westword copping some...
The ’dudes are back in town
A year and a half ago, we had a chance to chat with John Magnie and Steve Amedee to get a little background on their work with singer/songwriter Rebecca Folsom, who was just getting ready to release her new album Reunion. During the course of that conversation, we ...
Gallery: Red Bull’s Thre3Style competition rocks the crowd
Red Bull's Thre3Style Competition U.S. Finals came to Denver on October 10 at Denver's Beta nightclub. The contest asks DJs to rock a crowd for 15 minutes with at least three different genres of music in their mix. A panel of judges decided who rocked the crowd the ...
Yonder Mountain String Band occupies Boulder Theater
A recent feature story in The Atlantic took a funny and insightful look at Yonder Mountain String Band’s Harvest Music Festival, staged a couple of months ago in the Ozark National Forest in Arkansas. The piece was as much about the band-sponsored music festival ...
DeVotchKa dives into show with CSO
Nick Urata, the guitar-slinging, bouzouki-picking, theremin-conducting lead singer of Denver’s DeVotchKa, is ready for yet another performance with the Colorado Symphony Orchestra (CSO) at Red Rocks Amphitheatre on Friday, June 14. And while his group has been ...
