Music
Boulder Phil launches ‘Legends’ season with a bang
Opening night for the Boulder Philharmonic offers a real triple threat...
You can’t outfox the Fox
It was 1994, and Don Strasburg was walking (running, depending on who tells the story) around his Boulder home with a 101 Dalmatians bed...
Demise of Dead band births Chicha
Though guitarist Mike Lee — who founded the Boulder band Chicha — was a late bloomer in terms of performing, his deep love of music dates back to his childhood in the Bay Area...
Low profile, high standards
Brandi Carlile is one of those rare musicians who gets it. She’s not up on stage every night trying to be a rock star, the tabloids aren’t all that interested in her, and she’s not constantly making a ruckus or ticking people off with her grandstanding or childish ...
Going off topic
An interview with Gregg Allman can easily go off topic, which in this case means several intended questions — including those about his new concert CD/DVD, Gregg Allman Live: Back To Macon, GA, and the status of Midnight Rider, the movie biopic about the Allman ...
Strokes frontman Julian Casablancas speaks out about his solo disc
More than three years have passed since New York band the...
Free, loose and improvised
Don`t get him wrong: Australian multi-instrumentalist Nicky Bomba loves drumming with his brother-in-law John Butler’s trio, which plays Red Rocks on June 4...
Steve Conn reconnects
Steve Conn is one of those serial Boulderites. The legendary musician has moved to town, left Boulder, regretted it and then returned … repeatedly.
“I...
It’s all good
The railroad tracks run parallel to First Street in Alabaster, which slips by a couple of used car lots and a strip mall or...
David Crosby’s cliff dive
David Crosby loves science fiction novels. Yes, that David Crosby. The mustachioed troubadour; the man who almost cut his hair; the shadow captain himself;...
A thriller comes to Colorado Music Festival
Jean-Marie Zeitouni, music director of the Colorado Music Festival (CMF), makes Bartók’s Bluebeard’s Castle sound almost like a Hollywood horror movie...


















