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...
The gold standard
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,...
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...
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...
‘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...
Laugh until it hurts
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...
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...
It’s about time
It was the cover. The cover kind of said something, and then it kind of said something else, because the times and the world...
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 ...
Always ‘Somewhere Between Heaven and Hell’
Social Distortion, along with their contemporaries, Agent Orange, Black Flag, Circle Jerks, X, The Vandals, D.l., Bad Religion, T.S.O.L. and the Offspring, helped shape...
