Music
Don’t call it a comeback
Truth be told, Claudia Schmidt was a bit skeptical the last time she played Boulder. The strip mall location of the venue, Caffè Sole, which Schmidt will return to on Friday, Sept. 12, didn’t really inspire confidence from the outside...
Pro Musica Colorado looks backward, forward and outward
The next concert by the Pro Musica Colorado Chamber Orchestra will look backward, and forward, and outward.
The program, titled “Classical Evolution,” will be presented...
Two fall concerts, three in spring for Takács Quartet
The University of Colorado’s Takacs String Quartet, one of Boulder’s musical treasures, will play a program of music by Mozart, Bartók and Dvořák Sunday...
Next level
The Infamous Stringdusters have been on tour pretty much non-stop since the start of 2017 and will have soon released two live albums, one...
Todd Snider’s Nashville life creeps into his music
Long since graduated from the anti-heroism of mid-90s, grunge-skeptical, alt-folkie status, Todd Snider has quietly grown into a songwriter of unique vintage, capable of uncorking rickety masterpieces of unsung contenders, sardonic social commentary and offbeat ...
Borgore ruined dubstep before anyone else
Borgore wears YouTube trolling like a fat gold chain around his neck...
Laurie Morvan burns in blue
California blues guitarist Laurie Morvan and her band are in that place right now where they draw two-paragraph mentions in local newspapers, generous but usually short features, CD reviews in small-circ blues magazines, and generally positive festival appearance ...
Back to pilfer Xmas
We’ll never begrudge a rapper moving beyond the cheap sensationalism of bitches, banging and bling, but we also don’t need a loquacious, underemployed PBS viewer schooling us on life’s finer points, as is the custom of many so-called “conscious rappers...
Dance party at a storied venue
Red Rocks Amphitheatre is about to host a slam that will leave electronic music fans, and their glowsticks, spinning. The Glitch Mob...
Pretty Lights Music clowns around at the Fox
Pretty Lights Music is loaded with solo electronic acts, so it’s refreshing to see that as lead man Derek Smith (Pretty Lights) has shed drummers over the years, Pretty Lights Music as a label is increasingly inclusive...
THE FEW, THE PROUD, THE MEMORABLE ALBUMS OF 2014
TAYLOR SWIFT, who says she looks at albums as “sort of statements,” has sold an awful lot of albums this year. The unabashedly pop (as opposed to country-pop, her previous focus) 1989 sold more than a million albums in its first week and has spent a total of 29 weeks...
