Music

The five archers

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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...

No joke

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If you’re a millennial of a certain age and persuasion, the unhinged anti-comedy of Tim Heidecker has likely shaped your cerebral cortex into knots...

Is Eric Johnson learning to relax?

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Anyone following the career of Austinbased guitarist Eric Johnson has learned to reconcile the guitarist’s singular fretboard mastery with his sluggish pace of releasing recordings. Johnson endured years of interview questions about his notorious perfectionism (...

Preparing for the ‘Rapture’

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Peter Kater’s never been religious, but he’s had his share of divine experiences.  Mushrooms, LSD, fasting, meditation — the two-time Grammy-winning, classically trained pianist has...

‘Subversive, seditious, bawdy proto-feminist’

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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...

Grae matter

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Jean Grae hates being called a female emcee — especially a “femcee...

Growin’ ‘Grass

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

Body talk

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The cacophonous, shape-shifting blend of hardcore, hip-hop and noise put forward by New York City’s Show Me the Body is a jolt to the...

Eric Johnson: Now and then

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Depending on who you ask and what day you ask it, having that One Monster Hit is either a blessing or a boat anchor...

King’s Singers return to Boulder with music familiar and new

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Pat Donnachie can hardly wait to get back onstage. With an audience. In Boulder. As a member of the King’s Singers, Dunachie was accustomed to...

Scenes from a life

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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...

Snoop Dogg takes his pimp strut to the executive office

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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...