Music

The humble Trevor Powers, who records under the moniker Youth Lagoon, is somewhat of an enigma. His visionary first record, Year of Hibernation, is full of adorably cerebral psychedelic pop written in his dorm room at Boise State University and recorded over ...

Gasoline Lollipops’ founder Clay Rose is tired of people saying that songwriters should just be themselves. Though this may manifest itself more overtly in his side project where band members dress and act like 1920s zombies, Gasoline Lollipops certainly creates its ...

There seems to be a cultural (maybe generational) shift happening; musicians are forsaking the rigidity and structure of a single genre in favor of...

Pelham Pearce, general/artistic director of Central City Opera (CCO), insists, “there is method to my madness!” The madness is expecting audiences to attend opera high...

I have seen the map of the world...

Mariachi meets metal. No, really...

If fending off zombies sounds more appealing than hearing “Monster Mash” at another costume party, never fear: Boulder musicians have much to offer this Halloween. Acts like Devotchka, Paper Bird, The Motet and more are coming to town, offering Halloween-themed ...

There is a tendency to want to compare The Felice Brothers to the past — to say they sound like The Band, Bob Dylan...

Robert Olson has changed the Longmont Symphony, and the Longmont Symphony has changed him. “I’m very, very proud of what we’ve done over three decades,”...

Black Lips make often chaotic, always entertaining, never-heard-on-the-radio, “flower punk” garage rock...

It's 4:30 in the morning, halfway across the world in Australia, and Stanley Clarke is resting the world’s most renowned electric bass chops when the call comes...

Beth Orton’s voice is the milky cloud of cream in your coffee gently dispersing like last light before the twilight. Her trilling coo is sweet and tender but also urgent and foreboding. Almost two decades ago, the U.K. songstress was the girl-of the-moment first ...