Music
A new perspective
People talk about how life can be a real roller coaster, and few know this better than Justin Townes Earle. From struggling with alcohol and drug addiction — not to mention a double-digit number of stints in rehab — to signing his first record deal while still in his...
Stepping stones
Colorado holds a special place in Nora Jane Struthers’ life, specifically the Telluride Bluegrass Festival. While she grew up in New Jersey, Struthers developed a love for folk and bluegrass music, partly due to her banjo-playing dad. She picked up at the acoustic ...
Time traveler
For a period of time last year, Galactic drummer Stanton Moore was simultaneously summoning the past and chasing bits of it away...
The ‘Fifth’ for the 10th
Bahman Saless, the conductor of the Boulder Chamber Orchestra, is usually an optimistic, can-do guy. That’s how he built the BCO from scratch in the past 10 years...
Nikki Hill
Thursday, January 2: Nikki Hill. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Outlook Hotel & Home of the Blues, 800 28th St., Boulder, 303-443-3322...
The Prairie Scholars
Saturday, January 4: The Prairie Scholars. 4 p.m. Bootstrap Brewing Company, 6778 N. 79th St., Niwot, 303-652-4186...
At the altar of Divine Fits
What do you do when you finally make it? Most artists are perpetually scraping by and innovating just to get by, and when you finally break through that barrier and find yourself no longer a struggling artist but a successful one, where do you go from there...
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 ...
