Music
Snoop Dogg takes his pimp strut to the executive office
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...
Higher power
When Colorado country-punk icon Slim Cessna drove from his home in South Park recently to be interviewed in Boulder, where he grew up, he...
Life in the elephant cage
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...
No competition in art
Some of the greatest pop music to emerge from the Western World has been a result of great friendships: Lennon and McCartney, Richards and...
Love and Haiti
If mass media is your only window into the Republic of Haiti, mention of the island nation likely conjures a small constellation of sufferings....
Best Western
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...
REVIEW: Soundgarden at Red Rocks, July 18
A tumultuous roaring sound of fans whistling, screaming and clapping their hands filled Red Rocks Amphitheatre Monday night for a sold out Soundgarden show. A couple of songs into their almost two-hour-long set, Chris Cornell, the frontman of the legendary grunge-...
Takács Quartet will play “Three Bs” plus one
The Takács String Quartet is offering music by “Three Bs” for their spring concert series in Boulder — in fact, “Three Bs” plus one.
These...
It’s a woman’s world
MaryLynn Gillaspie and her sister Gaile had just settled into a hotel room in Tokyo when their tourmate Dizzie Gillespie called. Gaile answered the...
Review: Pretty Lights at Red Rocks
There’s absolutely no way I can write this review without bias. No one altered my college music sensibilities like Pretty Lights, whom I knew as the spearhead for Colorado’s charge into electronic music and indisputable winner of the hearts and ears of a generation ...
‘Your ears are gonna hurt’
If our quiet corner of the Front Range has seemed louder in recent years, that’s partly by design. Fueled by its beating black heart in...
Out of the void
The concept of Shoshin arose from the teachings of 13th-century Buddhist priest and philosopher Dōgen Zenji. Practitioners of the ancient discipline are taught to...
