Music
All together now
If something feels familiar about the latest from Chicago indie darlings Ratboys, that’s partly by design. Since its release in August, The Window —...
A thriller comes to Colorado Music Festival
Jean-Marie Zeitouni, music director of the Colorado Music Festival (CMF), makes Bartók’s Bluebeard’s Castle sound almost like a Hollywood horror movie...
A haircut in four parts
Though the group and the event started in the same year (1948), Allan Barker, director of the Boulder Timberliners isn’t sure who the longest-running participant in the Barbershop Harmony Festival at Chautauqua is...
Songwriting like a sieve
Stockholm Syndrome’s new album Apollo lurches into life as Jerry Joseph wails about walking the streets at 3 a.m. in a “blood-red cowboy shirt … dodging a couple of ghosts...
Worldwide rhythms
%uFFFDSomali-Canadian rapper K’naan just had one of the best summers of his career. Earlier in the year his song “Waving Flag” from his sophomore album The Troubadour was adopted by Canadian producer Bob Ezrin and the Young Artists for Haiti to raise funds for ...
Bahman Saless will take the night off from the BCO
Boulder Chamber Orchestra (BCO) has some holiday surprises planned for a concert Saturday (Dec. 21) that opens with music by Mozart. And one of...
Eklund Opera presents ’the perfect Verdi opera’
Nicholas Carthy describes La traviata as “the perfect Verdi opera.”
Based on the 1848 novel by Alexandre Dumas, La Dame aux Camélias (The lady of...
California Guitar Trio, mostly
It’s a bit of humor, really, and not necessarily of deep artistic import, but the graphic accompanying the social media announcement of dates for...
Indie madness meets sincere cuteness
Deerhoof concerts have always been uniquely fun, but lately more of a festive connection between band and audience has been on the quartet’s mind, according to singer/bassist Satomi Matsuzaki, who lived in her native Japan until the mid-’90s...
You had to be there
We’ve all been there before — awkwardly on the outside of an inside joke, waiting out the chorus of laughter and the inevitable, “You...
Ending with a bang
The Boulder Philharmonic ends a spectacular season Saturday with the spectacular orchestral fireworks of Respighi’s Pines of Rome.
The 2016–17 season saw sell-out performances, a...


















