Music
The journey is the destination
In a locally published review last winter of their LP Instinct, the generally sympathetic reviewer predicted that this year — 2019 — was going...
Magic flutes, golden flutes and flutists of all ages
There will be many kinds of flutes at the University of Colorado Boulder next week: Magic, golden, and from piccolo to bass.
The central event...
Sweet spot
Fort Collins native Stelth Ulvang captured lightning in a bottle when he co-founded the now-legendary Colorado band Dovekins in 2009. Merging sea shanties with...
Good times for My Chemical Romance
In a way, the huge achievement that was The Black Parade CD and tour almost caused the guys in My Chemical Romance to forget who they are as a band...
Jesse Cook talks labels and artistic heroes
Somewhere just past the two minute mark of “Tommy and Me,” one of the middle-stretch cuts on world music guitarist Jesse Cook’s latest CD,...
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...
A kind of dawn
Last December, Desert Dwellers (Amani Friend and Treavor Moontribe) released a three-hour video stream set, captured last summer in a verdant clearing in the...
Amanda Balestrieri wants to ‘see you in court’
When Amanda Balestrieri says “see you in court,” it’s an offer, not a threat.
As director of Seicento Baroque Ensemble, she knows just how much...
Asylum Street Spankers find salvation
For those who haven’t had the pleasure, South By Southwest (otherwise known as SXSW) is the yearly arts festival held over the last week of winter down in Austin. Initially a music convention prowled by eager publicists trying to keep their underpaying jobs, burned ...
Big sky son
The latest offering from Fort Collins-based singer-songwriter Cary Morin was inspired by paintings from his Montana childhood of an American West that was wild,...
The ambassadors of Mexico
At around 11 a.m. local time on Sept. 19, residents of Mexico City methodically filed out of office buildings, homes and restaurants — wherever...