Music
Nothing but changes for restless Murs
Some guys worry about success and how to make it happen. Others simply do, channeling their ambition into creation, believing hard work and passion will take them wherever they need to go. Los Angeles-born rapper Nick Carter, aka Murs, is the latter such artist, ...
Gallery: Gov’t Mule takes Red Rocks
Gov't Mule guitarist Warren Haynes is in a world by himself, and he proved...
Being honest with yourself
I put as much energy and love into the craft as I possibly could,” says Seattle hip-hop MC Ben Haggardy, summarizing the last few years, “to redevelop a relationship I had lost with the art...
The Pharcyde
Thursday, February 27: The Pharcyde. 9 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1128 13th St., Boulder, 303-447-0095...
Travels with Trace
Midday in Brooklyn, and Trace Bundy is chilling after a “pretty much sold out” show the night before when Boulder Weekly catches up with...
Boulder’s Barsamian joins Kronos Quartet for Oct. 8 concert at Macky
The Kronos Quartet, always bold, brings Boulder artists to Boulder for their appearance at Macky Auditorium at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 8...
Revisiting a classic
The Who’s rock opera Tommy is now more than 40 years old. But one won’t hear Who singer Roger Daltrey accepting the notion that this piece of music, or for that matter, Who music in general, is something that falls into the realm of nostalgia or oldies...
El Ten Eleven
Chalk it up to good luck or the benevolent hand of Providence, the SoCal duo El Ten Eleven landed safely in Philadelphia (see what...
Flying Fish
Vince Herman was in a van last week, somewhere in Northern California, on his way to a gig with Great American Taxi at John Lee Hooker’s Boom Boom Room in San Francisco. The gig was near the tail end of a stretch of late-year gigs Taxi had peeled off in support of ...
Coming clean
Aside from ZZ Top, probably no other music artist could cause more of a commotion by shaving a beard than Matisyahu...
Beating the heat: Dead Winter Carpenters at the Fox Theatre
As June has given way to July, the heat index has inched up around Colorado. Boulder and Denver have seen their first handful of 90-degree days, with many more on the way. But coming from Phoenix, the Dead Winter Carpenters will kindly take Colorado’s summer sun...
By a string
Violinist Rachel Sliker grew up in Colorado Springs but has spent the last two decades in Boulder, where she branched out from the classical...
