Music
The firmament in 4/4
When iconic Grateful Dead drummer and ethno-musicologist Mickey Hart rolls his band through town on Dec. 9, he’ll be bringing along a little of the cosmos...
In the nick of time, Boulder Symphony will bring listeners ‘Out...
It wasn’t really planned that way, but the Boulder Symphony’s next concert arrives just in the nick of time...
The wisdom of Wilco
Wilco is a chameleon band. The group’s sound has changed dramatically in the 17 years since the release of its first L.P., A.M. Anchored by guitarist and songwriter Jeff Tweedy, Wilco bridges country, rock and alternative genres with grace and ease, and the once-...
moe. money, fewer problems
Al Schnier, guitarist/singer of moe., recognizes the irony of his band signing a deal with Sugar Hill Records...
Return of CMF mini-festival and former director
Fans of Brahms’s warm Romanticism (and who in the classical audience isn’t?) have much to look forward to.
In three concerts, the Colorado Music Festival...
Boom boom boom
There is busy and then there is New York busy. Camille Harris is New York busy. She does a lot, and all at once....
Another color in the crayon box
From coming out as a lesbian to her political activism to talking openly about her breast cancer diagnosis, Melissa Etheridge isn’t shy to tell the world about her personal problems. Honesty is the only way, she says. But she wasn’t always this way. Openness was her ...
Elyse Miller surprises with ‘Paperdoll’
Paperdoll, Fort Collins singer-songwriter Elyse Miller’s debut effort, is an unusual entry in the seemingly endless catalog of soft, somewhat sardonic music made by acoustic guitar-wielding musicians so ubiquitous in our nation’s coffee shops and open mics...
The dark side of Poor Moon’s beautiful whimsy
The Baltimore dream-pop duo Beach House, which headlines the Boulder Theater on Sunday with some auxiliary musicians, has been steadily touring since its inception in 2004. The group’s silky indierock, as much Nico-era Velvet Underground as Euro-pop in the vein of ...
The language of the people
In 1990, a lawyer named Craig Ferguson found himself in a hotel room in Chicago dreaming of a new phase of his life, one...
Annie Booth says, ‘Hello, Boulder’
Pianist Annie Booth has to think a minute or two to recall the last time she trundled her trio up the (unbuckled) highway to...
