Music
Songwriting like a sieve
Stockholm Syndrome’s new album Apollo lurches into life as Jerry Joseph wails about walking the streets at 3 a.m. in a “blood-red cowboy shirt … dodging a couple of ghosts...
Decemberists inspire awe at Boulder Theater
Despite their baroque, anti-war, liberal, Portlandian, eastern-European, Shakespearian, English romantic influences, The Decemberists are, at heart, an American band. Something about hating Los Angeles and longing for the life of an expatriate speaks to our national ...
Just a wink of the eye
When you call up Primus bassist and singer-songwriter Les Claypool, it’s tough to know where to start the conversation. His work with Oysterhead, the...
Unity of style and identity
It seems that every month brings a new article announcing the demise of classical music...
Rah Rah’s new album deserves cheers
I don’t know much about Saskatchewan, but judging from its general flatness and its central location, I imagine it must be Canada’s super-polite version of the Kansas- Nebraska area, just with a different accent and more snow...
The beautiful madness of Shovels & Rope
Michael Trent and Cary Ann Hearst, the husband and wife duo behind folk-rock outfit Shovels & Rope, were on their way to play Codfish...
Special folk
Richard Thompson is the guitar player’s guitar player, one of those described with hushed reverence by those who know. Some years ago, Bob Mould (Hüsker Dü, Sugar) commented that watching Thompson play made him want to mothball his instrument...
Black Friday for record shops
In the age of the Internet, buying an album is about as personal as checking the weather. Gone are the days of awaiting the next release of your favorite band before buying a copy at your local music store and popping a copy into your player at home...
Found Sounds — Nov. 17, 2022
Can Queen Taylor be dethroned? That’s the question emerging in this week’s batch of bestsellers from Paradise Found Records & Music. Swift’s Midnights continues...
’Tis the season
For a list of classical music concerts happening during the holiday season in Boulder, click here...


















