Music

The delightful imperfections of Frances Cone

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It’s a story Christina Cone, frontwoman of Brooklyn-founded, now Nashville-based indie pop outfit Frances Cone, has only told once live — the story behind...

The Dead shall rise

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Not that we knew it at the time, but we’re pretty sure the weirdly twice-echoed staccato stomp of “Ants Marching” we heard from our...

Smelling the air

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The economy had just rushed headlong into the recession when Paul Janeway met his future wife, Caroline; he was unemployed, living in his dad’s...

Robert Olson’s last concert as music director

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Robert Olson has changed the Longmont Symphony, and the Longmont Symphony has changed him. “I’m very, very proud of what we’ve done over three decades,”...

Boulder Phil: Pianist Simone Dinnerstein returns

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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...

Boulder band Envy Alo introduces boogaloo fusion and new vocals

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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,...

Experimental and exploratory

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The first time Thomas LaFond came through Boulder, he was only supposed to stay a night or two. But after spending time busking on...

Heavier than hell

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Before it was a common stop on most major touring schedules, Ethan McCarthy had a hard time convincing heavy bands to come play the...

Music for the people, by the people

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There is a tendency to want to compare The Felice Brothers to the past — to say they sound like The Band, Bob Dylan...

Blues is the route

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The music started about 40 years ago at a party at Mary Flower’s house in Denver. Singer Mollie O’Brien recalls the gathering in 1980...

Chasms and bridges

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The skies were a sickly slate gray a couple of weeks ago when we caught up with Gasoline Lollipops’ singer/songwriter Clay Rose. Not so...

Brandi Carlile bares her soul on latest album

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One of the major ways Brandi Carlile feels she improved as a singer on her latest CD, Give Up The Ghost, was in being able to tap into the emotions that fueled her songs as they were first being written when it came time — sometimes many months later — to record her ...