Music
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,...
Handel’s ‘Messiah,’ tailored for the Christmas season
It’s been 276 years, and people are still talking about Handel’s Messiah.
Of course, it’s one of the best-known and best-loved pieces ever written, but...
Music for the people, by the people
There is a tendency to want to compare The Felice Brothers to the past — to say they sound like The Band, Bob Dylan...
Boulder Philharmonic pairs ‘complementary’ composers Beethoven and Elgar
Michael Butterman, music director of the Boulder Philharmonic, thinks that Beethoven and the English composer Sir Edward Elgar go well together, but he’s not...
Inspired by a tragic story, ‘Heart of Hungary’ features Edward Dusinberre...
Some stories just have to be told.
That is what composer Jeffrey Nytch thought when he heard about Sandor Feher, a violinist who died on...
Heavy Rotation
“Weather Girl,” Figueroa
Brazilian-born producer Amon Tobin often assumes a nom de plume for new projects: hip-hop-meets-drum-and-bass as Cujo, heavy bass as Two Fingers, punked...
A nice metaphor for life
Andrew Duhon took one geology class in college, the class we all took; you know, rocks for jocks with the football players. While the...
Death in Memphis
In her landmark 1977 book On Photography, Susan Sontag calls photographs a testament to “time’s relentless melt.” For the influential essayist and cultural critic,...
Boulder Phil: Pianist Simone Dinnerstein returns
The first time Simone Dinnerstein attended a concert alone she was 12, and she heard music by Philip Glass.
Dinnerstein has since become an internationally...
Cue the strings
With a career-long embrace of unlikely instruments like the theremin, sousaphone and bouzouki, Colorado folk outfit DeVotchKa has never been the sort of rock...
Rebuilding Coliseum
"It’s just like those people that got married at 18 and stayed together forever,” says Ryan Patterson, frontman of the Louisville, Ky., punk band Coliseum...
Suffering a success
Sitting in Tom Wasinger’s studio, surrounded by tens of thousands of dollars of guitars and other stringed delights, his three Grammys gathering dust on...
