Music

Brian Finn reminisces on 60 years of good food and hoedowns at the Gold Hill

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...

Heavy Rotation this week is inspired by John Prine, a mix of mellow, comforting music that expresses a range of emotion often felt all...

Emma Rose was born in Wisconsin but spent the second half of her childhood along the Front Range in Fort Collins, Longmont and Jamestown....

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...

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,”...

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 ...

It’s been more than two decades since Murder by Death formed in the idyllic college town of Bloomington, Indiana — and the years since...

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

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

As Danny Shafer’s marriage came to an end a couple of years ago, songs began to flow out of him.  “I knew I had to...