Music
Still the queen of the local scene
"I’m sorry,” Wendy Woo says over the phone one recent afternoon, “I feel like I’m not a hundred percent focused. I’m taking a defiant...
Harnessing the hummingbirds
After consulting several dictionaries, it’s undeniable: There’s a quality about Alexa Wildish that can best be described as magical.
From Oxford: magical (adj.): “beautiful or...
Nothing to prove
The Timmins siblings—Michael, Peter and Margo— and their long-time friend Alan Anton have been recording albums and playing alternative country under the moniker Cowboy...
Rolling on into forever
Last fall, Nahko Bear carved time out of his schedule as the frontman of Medicine for the People to visit the Standing Rock Reservation...
Around the world
There’s a whole world in the sound of Colorado Springs hip-hop duo The Reminders. Not unlike The Clash’s outlook in the early 1980s, the...
Erik Deutsch’s white night
Erik Deutsch is in an Airbnb in Rome with his wife Victoria and their puppy. In between playing and traveling, they managed to pick...
The many faces of Chree Bagheera
Chree Bagheera honed his obsession in the shadows. Music was present in his household growing up, but Bagheera’s family discouraged a career path in...
Act accordingly: ARISE up
There was a time, if you can believe it, when Paul Bassis — co-founder of the extremely woke, half music, half co-creative ARISE Festival,...
Music abounds in Boulder, despite lack of venues
The Fox Theatre’s empty summer calendar said it all, but then came the official word: The venue was closing for the summer, and the reason given was “roof repairs...
Natural Wood finish
In the year before COVID, which seems like a really long time ago, Oliver Wood was dividing his time between putting finishing touches on...
‘The twain shall meet’ at The Dairy
"East is East and West is West,” Rudyard Kipling famously wrote, “and never the twain shall meet.”
Kipling never met Reena Esmail. A composer who...
Boulder band Envy Alo introduces boogaloo fusion and new vocals
It’s been two years since the Boulder-based band Envy Alo dropped their first album, One Time, but the soulful rock/funk band hasn’t stopped working,...
