Music
Jamming at the disco
Marc Brownstein is waiting at the doctor’s office, hoping he doesn’t have a case of the “disco flu...
Bart’s is back
Waves of change rattled the record store community in Boulder when Bart’s CD Cellar and Record Shop closed its doors this past Valentine’s Day...
Some wolves do survive
The tour leg that swings Los Lobos through Boulder this weekend is something of a victory lap for the East Los Angeles-bred band. It comes just after their December release of Disconnected in New York City, a live chronicle recorded during a three-night stand at the ...
Staying humble
For more than 25 years, Amy Ray and Emily Saliers have toured the world and built an impressive audience as the Indigo Girls. Yet to hear Ray speak of her career, it’s clear she hasn’t forgotten where she’s come from. Perhaps that’s because she finds even physical ...
Pura musica conspiracy
Gypsy-punk pioneers Gogol Bordello are touring now with an album that’s an athem to and call to action for gypsy punks worldwide. If you’re unfamiliar with the band, the simplest way to describe them is that they thrive on total chaos. And Gogol Bordello will invade ...
The Motet on Halloween: Knee-deep in inspiration
For some years now, The Motet has been leading kind of a schizophrenic life, serving up its regular, originals-heavy set on the festival circuit, while spending some portion of its off time working up cover-version tribute shows for mainly local gigs (Fort Collins, ...
Aquarium Rescue Unit blooms
When Trey Anastasio took the stage with the remaining members of the Grateful Dead a few weeks ago, subbing for the 23-year-gone Jerry Garcia, it was a little hard not to regard the gig as a gentle and respectful closing of a generational arc...
Liz Berube’s mountain road
Sometimes the best choices you can make are the ones that seem completely unplanned...
The aftermath: How the September floods will affect Lyons residents
The sound of Danny Shafer’s guitar has drifted through Boulder County venues for decades now, and for years, he made his home base in the River Bend Mobile Home Park in Lyons, where he lived with his wife and their two children...
BCO offers classical option for New Year’s Eve
Bahman Saless and the Boulder Chamber Orchestra offered their first New Year’s Eve concert two years ago. Saless saw an open niche and decided to fill it...


















