Music

When it came time for singer-songwriter-guitarist William Fitzsimmons to start work on his newest project, Lions — which released in February — it felt like a personal and professional reboot...

Nicki Bluhm has a lot going for her. Her country-rock vocals recall the rootsy strut of Linda Ronstadt, while sweet and smooth like a crème brûlée. Her guitarist/husband Tim Bluhm is leader of longtime Bay Area indie-folk icons The Mother Hips, providing a built-...

Phrases like “head start” or “early jump” fail to adequately capture the story behind The Big Motif. After all, the seasoned Denver trio average less than 20 years of age among them, yet they’ve been playing together since 2005...

Guitarist/songwriter Tommy Castro, one of the West Coast blues scene’s hardest-working and most ferociously engaging figures, swings back into Boulder tonight for a midweek gig at the Outlook. For a guy who plays the Blues Cruise once or twice a year and ...

The thing starts a little ominously, the nervous whine of an arpeggio picked across a Telecaster with heavy reverb, a loping tempo behind it,...

It’s been more than two decades since Murder by Death formed in the idyllic college town of Bloomington, Indiana — and the years since...

Kinfolk Celebration at Planet Bluegrass, Friday, Sept. 19 - Saturday, Sept. 20, Planet Bluegrass Ranch, 500 W. Main St., Lyons, 303-823-0848...

He may be one of this decade’s leading roots music artists, but Gregory Alan Isakov keeps one foot in the past. On his new...

Near-fatal car crashes, naked arm wrestling, runaway girlfriends and drummers, and even the unfortunate deaths of two dear friends. That’s the short story of Ego Vs Id’s debut album, Taste (Abattoir Records), recorded next to a strip club in Boulder over the past two...

For the love of what you do...

In her landmark 1977 book On Photography, Susan Sontag calls photographs a testament to “time’s relentless melt.” For the influential essayist and cultural critic,...

Some of the greatest pop music to emerge from the Western World has been a result of great friendships: Lennon and McCartney, Richards and...