Music

Not so long ago, in a land called Toronto, two young men met at a Sonic Youth show (or maybe it was in prison, or on a pirate ship, or perhaps on ChristianMingle.com — this part of the story is murky). The lads bonded over a mutual affinity for punk rock and a ...

UPDATE: Tonight's Ra Ra Riot show has been cancelled. Click the link for more info...

The loveable...

A recent feature story in The Atlantic took a funny and insightful look at Yonder Mountain String Band’s Harvest Music Festival, staged a couple of months ago in the Ozark National Forest in Arkansas. The piece was as much about the band-sponsored music festival ...

Aside from ZZ Top, probably no other music artist could cause more of a commotion by shaving a beard than Matisyahu...

In the history of European choral music, there are two major works that were composed for 40 different voice parts. Yes, that’s four-zero, 40 parts,...

A reclusive count living in a remote castle...

Perhaps the most beautiful thing about bluegrass music — more beautiful, even, than a southern accent over a banjo twang — is the way the genre blurs the line between audience and performer. Songs are passed down and shared and swapped so freely that it’s often hard ...

Call it Grateful Dead 2.0: How the counterculture became mainstream

With just a month left before graduation at CSU, local Americana troubadour Taylor Shae has hit that phase of her senior year in college...

I hold open the door at Illegal Pete’s for Kalyn Heffernan as she rolls her electric wheelchair inside. At least a dozen people are eating in small groups, and everyone almost instinctively takes a turn to give Heffernan the same stare. It’s a quick glance that ...

Now in its 13th year, NedFest has been virtually shock-proof in the face of economic shifts and dime-a-dozen festival saturation. With a dependable yearly lineup, partnerships with local breweries, tickets capped at 2,000 and a true scene of devotees that returns ...