Music
Colorado Music Festival is back
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...
Liquid gold
As rock ’n’ roll got restless during the countercultural turn of the 1960s, the music began to cry out for a visual counterpart to...
A beloved staple of the holiday season in a new medium
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...
Infinite Space: Boulder Phil plays music about stars and astronomers and...
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...
Saving the cats
The day after A.A. Bondy finished his latest album, Enderness, his house burned in the Woolsey Fire that ate up nearly 100,000 acres of...
The beautiful madness of Shovels & Rope
Michael Trent and Cary Ann Hearst, the husband and wife duo behind folk-rock outfit Shovels & Rope, were on their way to play Codfish...
A ‘ma and pop rock ‘n’ roll album’
Dustin Moran and KR Nelson were on a set break during a gig last March in Austin, Texas, when they heard that South by...
‘West Side Story’: 61 years old and still as relevant as...
Leonard Bernstein’s West Side Story opened on Broadway just over 61 years ago — Sept. 26, 1957 — but for Leigh Holman, the story...
Rev. Horton Heat confesses to less punk, more country on new...
Reverend Horton Heat wants his fans to...
Winter is coming… and that’s OK
Sometimes (OK, most of the time), turning out like our parents isn’t such a bad thing. Take, for example, fiddler player Natalie Padilla (that’s...
Green light for Boulder band Na’an Stop
The five friends who make up Na’an Stop couldn’t believe they sold out their first headlining show at the Fox Theater last January. It was a big achievement for the reggae-roots band born out of CU-Boulder, which had been slowly gaining recognition around town for ...
Along the way
It only seems appropriate that John Craigie is on a road trip when he takes my call. The California-born, Portland-based singer-songwriter is known as...


















