Music

The Ivalas Quartet only recently arrived in Colorado, but if you follow classical music you will be hearing about them soon. That’s because they are...

Conductor Nick Carthy says that Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro is “the first great proto-feminist opera, and on top of that it’s subversive, it’s...

It’s hard to imagine putting out your first record in the middle of a global pandemic, but then again, it’s hard to imagine entering...

When listening to blues vocalist Janiva Magness, there are a lot of words that come to mind that could describe her sultry and lilting interpretations. Whether uplifting or drifting into darkness, one word that never comes across when hearing her voice is “fake.” ...

"I’ve had a great 2020.”  We’re not sure, but we suspect that Erik Deutsch is about the only working-age adult in North America who’s actually...

On his way back from his honeymoon on Vancouver Island in 2018, Antonio Lopez picked up a copy of the “local alternative rag,” The...

Michael Butterman, conductor of the Boulder Philharmonic, was sitting in his driveway, thinking “What on earth is going on?” “It was just an amazing mix,”...

One of the most joyful experiences of this pandemic, for me, has been watching the internet celebrate Fiona Apple’s first new album in eight...

In the earliest days of my residence in the People’s Republic, I lived next door to a guy who designed and crafted molds for...

Perhaps the signature sentiment of Jason Pierce’s career as the frontman and sole permanent member of the band Spiritualized can be found on 1997’s...

50 years later, RockyGrass in Lyons has become one of America’s great bluegrass festivals

It was in the larger-than-life era of music video when I discovered former Kinks frontman Ray Davies, decades after he had constructed the timeless 1964 rock anthem “You Really Got Me.” The Kinks had just released their 1984 album Word of Mouth, and the clip for “Do ...