Music
New directions
When Rachel Eckroth was an up-and-coming keyboardist in the jazz scene in Phoenix, Arizona, it was her father who took the teenaged Rachel to...
Little by little
Images of grizzly cubs traipsing and tumbling through lush Alaskan meadows are set to meandering and mesmerizing piano melodies. Large grizzlies stand on the...
Erik Deutsch splits the difference
"I was kind of off the jam scene for almost 15 years,” reflects Erik Deutsch on his current stint as keyboardist for Leftover Salmon....
Top five mixtapes of 2009
Industry rule number 4,080, as set forth by A Tribe Called Quest on The Low End Theory, is still true. Record company people are still shady. Luckily, record company people hold dwindling influence over what hip-hop music you get to hear...
Jazz sextet, tap dancer, vocalist and choir? It must be Ellington!
Duke Ellington, jazz legend, pianist and band leader, spent the last decade of his life creating and presenting “sacred concerts.” Described by one critic...
Boulder Symphony’s family affair
The opening of the Boulder Symphony’s 2015–16 season features three members of Boulder’s legendary musical family, the Lehnerts, playing Beethoven’s Triple Concerto. And it all got started at the farmers’ market...
Joyful noise
Ecstasy may not be the first emotion that springs to mind when beholding the ghoulish dirge of black metal, but that’s what sets apart...
Exploring ‘The World As We Know It’
The warmth of the debut Figueroa album, The World As We Know It, radiates from the first flurried guitar that opens the album; it’s...
Lightning crashes
Lifelong musician and lyricist Jake Downey sat down next to Lauren Tyler at a party two years ago, guitar in hand, working through a...
A ‘ma and pop rock ‘n’ roll album’
Dustin Moran and KR Nelson were on a set break during a gig last March in Austin, Texas, when they heard that South by...
After breaking from Wu-Tang, Ghostface Killah shines on his own
In the unlikely success story of the rap group/ militia/religious cult/consumer goods company the Wu-Tang Clan, Ghostface Killah has authored the unlikeliest individual success story...


















