Music
One last show
Dave Matthews’ recent announcement that his hugely popular group would take all of 2011 off probably seemed like an ominous sign to some of his fans. But Matthews says the fact that he and his bandmates — drummer Carter Beauford, violin player Boyd Tinsley and ...
Symphonic odysseys for Pro Musica Colorado
It’s going to be an epic season for the Pro Musica Colorado Chamber Orchestra...
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 ...
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 ...
Widespread Panic to play two nights at Pepsi Center on New...
Earlier today, jam band icons Widespread Panic announced two dates at the Pepsi Center on Dec. 30 and Dec. 31. G. Love and Special Sauce open...
Swing-fingers
Thursday, July 3: Blair Crimmins and The Hookers. 9 p.m. The Laughing Goat Coffeehouse, 1709 Pearl Street, Boulder...
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...
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...
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 ...
Raising the dead
Not so long ago, in a land called Toronto, two young men met at a Sonic Youth show (or maybe it was in prison, or on a pirate ship, or perhaps on ChristianMingle.com — this part of the story is murky). The lads bonded over a mutual affinity for punk rock and a ...
