Music

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...

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...

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...

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...

Saving the cats

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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

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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...

A ‘ma and pop rock ‘n’ roll album’

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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...

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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...

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Reverend Horton Heat wants his fans to...

Winter is coming… and that’s OK

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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

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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

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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...