Music
Dead Tenant comes to Boulder
Johann Sebastian Bach wrote Chaconne in D Minor between 1717 and 1723. In August 2013, Dead Tenant uploaded Chaconne in D Minor as performed on an electric guitar to YouTube...
Keeping tradition alive
Troy Andrews was handed a trombone at the age of 4, and he’s never looked back.
“I think at that time that was one of...
Aaah! Real Monsters
Friday, January 3: Aaah! Real Monsters. 9 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440- 4628.
Boasting a Colorado Springs-born singer, Aaah! Real Monsters brings melodic pop-punk with emotional choruses and catchy hooks.
What’s coming next
Donny Scott, known professionally as Donny Goines, is the low-key, high-talent artist whose sound you’ve been wishing would pulse through your headphones all year....
Chasms and bridges
The skies were a sickly slate gray a couple of weeks ago when we caught up with Gasoline Lollipops’ singer/songwriter Clay Rose. Not so...
Kind of blue
If you hear an entrancing rhythm coming from eTown Hall or the Boulder Outlook Hotel this weekend, don’t fight it. Instead, grab an instrument — or anything you have that can make a sound — and follow the sound. These sirens aren’t trying to wreck your ship; they ...
Transformative festival Arises
Music festivals have become far more than a gathering of bands and have morphed into a sub-cultural phenomenon that emphasize collaboration, ritual and enlightenment and strive to leave attendees transformed...
The journey is the destination
In a locally published review last winter of their LP Instinct, the generally sympathetic reviewer predicted that this year — 2019 — was going...
Looking up
After four-and-a-half years, Springdale Quartet is ready to move on to bigger and better things. As bassist Jordan Roos explains, that means everything from the venues they play to the music they make...
Breakneck blues
The Beatles did what they do, Dylan did what he does, and the rest of us had to play the blues,” George Thorogood says of the barreling Chicago-style electric blues he has specialized in for 40 years now...
