Music

From ‘the old country,’ with love

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The sounds filling Denver’s Mercury Café at the end of each month may come from Colorado musicians, but the traditions behind them traveled a...

Bullet with a change for rockers Nonpoint

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To put it mildly, Nonpoint went through a major transition heading into its seventh album when it replaced two band members — guitarist Zach Broadrick and bassist Ken “KB” MacMillan — with three new recruits, lead guitarist Dave Lizzio, rhythm guitarist Rasheed ...

The frog king cometh

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Theoretically, when you drop a stone into water, the ripples continue on forever, ad infinitum. So while Jeremy Enigk doesn’t regret coming out as...

A beloved staple of the holiday season in a new medium

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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...

GasPops channel Petty

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Seemed a curious thing that Clay Rose and the Gasoline Lollipops should be doing a Tom Petty complete-album for New Year’s Eve at the...

Infinite Space: Boulder Phil plays music about stars and astronomers and...

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The Boulder Philharmonic calls its 2018–19 season Open Space, and will begin its classical programming focusing on the openest space of all. Under the...

Cirque de la Symphonie makes fourth appearance with Boulder Phil

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The circus is coming back to town, and this time they’re bringing a fiddler. The circus is the acrobatic troupe Cirque de la Symphonie, returning...

Liquid gold

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As rock ’n’ roll got restless during the countercultural turn of the 1960s, the music began to cry out for a visual counterpart to...

Colorado Music Festival is back

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As the COVID-19 pandemic ebbs, life and music are slowly returning to “normal.” For the Colorado Music Festival (CMF), that means live concerts in Chautauqua...

The gold standard

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Creative programming, extensive community engagement and thoughtful collaborations have paid off for the Boulder Philharmonic. The big reward comes this week. Their next concert, Saturday,...

The beautiful madness of Shovels & Rope

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Michael Trent and Cary Ann Hearst, the husband and wife duo behind folk-rock outfit Shovels & Rope, were on their way to play Codfish...

Laugh until it hurts

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Like much of how singer-songwriter Stefan Babcock deals with the relentless pressures of life, the opening interlude on his band PUP’s latest album started...