Music
‘Life’s so fun’
When MUNA’s “Silk Chiffon” entered the world in late summer 2021, life was, in general, definitively not fun. But as society was preparing to...
Changing signals
Yonnas Abraham, backbone and spirit of Denver hip-hop band The Pirate Signal, is starting over yet again. Over the years, his band has lost and gained members, had masters of an entire album stolen by a former collaborator, moved to New York City only to move back to...
Classical and klezmer
Boulder`s Colorado Music Festival (CMF) at Chautauqua wraps up this week with several programs. Two led by CMF Musical Director Michael Christie — Sunday (Aug. 1) and the Festival Finale concerts Thursday and Friday (Aug. 5 and 6) — stand out for their adventurous ...
SLIDESHOW: Warren Haynes at the Ogden Theatre, Oct. 31
Boulder Weekly's Jeremy Williams was at the Warren Haynes show at the Ogden Theatre. Check out the photos he brought back.
‘An adventure for the listener’
You know it’s an unusual Christmas concert when one of the composers is the fearsome atonal composer Arnold Schoenberg.
But conductor Bahman Saless, who has...
Building blocks of sound
Back in 2003, drummer Danny Seim was abusing employee perks at a Portland, Ore., Kinko’s. Using the store’s photocopiers, Seim produced copy after copy of the handmade flipbook he designed as packaging for his band Menomena’s debut album I Am The Blame Fun Monster. ...
Mixing it up
For Dustin Payseur, changing the sound of Beach Fossils wasn’t a matter of abandoning what had come before.
Rather, the frontman of the Brooklyn indie-rock...
An orchestra’s VIP
If you have attended a classical orchestra concert, you’ve seen the concertmaster.
He or she enters after the rest of the orchestra is onstage, to...
Career change
Plenty of young musicians decide to put college on hold to take a shot at having a career writing songs and performing...