Music

"How do you like your latte?” Andrew Love asks from across the kitchen island as I settle into a plush couch just a few...

If this were a typical year, both the Boulder and Fox theaters would be hosting their 150th shows right now, in mid-October, each on...

It’s a Wonderful Life, a new opera by composer Jake Heggie and librettist Gene Scheer, started its performance life with a workshop at CU...

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 ...

From “Decadence and Debauchery” to fifth symphonies to a hike in the mountains, the 2021 Colorado MahlerFest will cover a lot of ground, literally...

Is that lawnmower bothering you?” Jimmy Herring asks during our phone interview a few weeks ago. “There’s a guy cutting the grass next door,...

As Charley Crockett drove out of the depths of Death Valley into a field of Joshua trees, the snow began to swirl. He had...

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 (...

In the ’80s, MaryLynn Gillaspie toured with Benny Goodman, met Dizzy Gillespie and was nominated for three Grammys as a member of the vocal jazz group Rare Silk...

When word got out last year that Koe Wetzel had signed a major label deal with Columbia Records, he heard it from some of...

Pianist Garrick Ohlsson has, at last count, at least 80 concertos in his repertoire. Yes, eight-zero, 80. “It’s absolutely possible,” Ohlsson says. “It’s probably more...

A music pastor and a trumpet player walk into a bar. It’s May of 2013, and Johnny Burroughs — a licensed minister — is...