Music

It was 1994, and Don Strasburg was walking (running, depending on who tells the story) around his Boulder home with a 101 Dalmatians bed...

One of the great joys of going to a big music festival is finding new music. Denver’s Grandoozy festival is offering more than 50...

Porter Robinson almost forgets to pick up his phone as he wakes up groggy from a nap after a long night of DJing...

When Boulder County singer-songwriter Kate Farmer was hit with a diagnosis of multiple sclerosis, she thought it might be time to put her music-making...

When people ask how the six members of the vocal rock band Face met each other, they say Eharmony.com and it always gets a chuckle, says Mark Megibow, the vocal drummer of Face. After 14 years in-theworks, Face has come to be loved by their fellow Colorado natives ...

Among its many discrete charms, The Wood Brothers’ new CD The Muse features a crafty little number, buried well down the program, which gracefully frames the Boulder-native siblings’ quizzically symbiotic approach to songwriting. Titled “Keep Me Around,” a poignant ...

Dissertations have been written about tribute bands, which present a very cool opportunity to use the word “simulacra...

What do you get when you combine classical music training with a garage-band mentality...

As The Yawpers played an unofficial South by Southwest set on a riverboat gliding aimlessly through the Colorado River in Austin, Texas, I couldn’t help but feel like Dante Hicks in Clerks. I’m not even supposed to be here today...

Colorado MahlerFest is growing.  This year, the 32nd edition of the festival will feature more repertoire than ever, including two separate orchestra programs in Macky...

Through a bluegrass career spanning nearly four decades, Tim O’Brien has played on many stages and with numerous players, but RockyGrass holds a special place in his heart. Hell, he’s performed there 28 times, which is why organizers asked him to fill the final slot ...

The Colorado Music Festival hosts the return of two guest conductors for the central portion of the six-week festival, July 11–23. For orchestral concerts July...