Music

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

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 ...

Some of the greatest pop music to emerge from the Western World has been a result of great friendships: Lennon and McCartney, Richards and...

The term “emo” has lived many lives since its origins in the evolving D.C. hardcore scene of the late 1980s. Three decades later, the...

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

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...

I met Greg Schochet in 2017 when he toured with Gasoline Lollipops in Belgium and Holland, filling in with us on lead guitar when Donnie...

Author Erin K. Barnes, who writes under the pen name GoGo Germaine, calls herself a “pretty typical Coloradan.” But the adolescent at the center...

They say that a band can best secure its legacy by knowing when it’s time to go out, even if most of the people...

Boulder’s self-proclaimed non-genre-conforming band Magic Beans has been around the block once or twice — after 10 years together, their sound has continued to...

Adam Granduciel is restless. Every day the 43-year-old lead guitarist and vocalist for The War on Drugs wakes up buzzing with the urge to...

Schedule a video call with Karin Dreijer, and you might not know what to expect on the other end of the screen. The enigmatic...