Music
Take it easy, sweet and slow
There is a rhythmic force that lives deep inside of Anaïs Mitchell. On stage she can’t help but pop and bob, as if punctuating...
Meet the Ivalas Quartet
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...
The welcome unpredictability of Shakey Graves
"I don’t really wear a lot of suspenders anymore,” Alejandro Rose-Garcia, aka Shakey Graves, tells me from a small town in British Columbia with “a...
‘Mistakes are just things we didn’t mean to play’
By all accounts, Victor Wooten is a great musician. He’s won five Grammy’s, been named one of the top 10 bassists of all time...
Roots and wings, shadows and light
On his way back from his honeymoon on Vancouver Island in 2018, Antonio Lopez picked up a copy of the “local alternative rag,” The...
Paradise Found
When Paradise Found Records & Music opens on April 1 at the corner of 17th and Pearl, it’ll be a homecoming of sorts.
Pearl Street...
Found Sounds: October 2023
Sick of the Spotify algorithm? Lucky for you, we’re back with another edition of Found Sounds—a monthly round-up of the bestselling new vinyl releases...
Luigi Cherubini is a gem
Maria Luigi Carlo Zenobio Salvatore Cherubini just may be the most influential classical composer you have never heard of.
As director of the Paris Conservatoire...
Space oddity
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...
‘Underrated masterpiece’
Antonín Dvořák has written some of the most, and least, familiar works in the classical music repertoire.
On the one hand are the “New World”...
If Leonard Cohen, Jim Morrison and the Wu-Tang Clan had a...
When we set up a time to talk, Daniel Rodriguez still had an intimate dinner show scheduled for Dec. 5 at Boulder Theater.
That’s of...
Snoop Dogg takes his pimp strut to the executive office
Believe it or not, it’s been 18 years since Snoop Dogg stepped into the world of music. The launch of his career began with a little ditty called “Deep Cover” with producer extraordinaire Dr. Dre, but Snoop has been far from deep cover since then...


















