Music
The dark side of Poor Moon’s beautiful whimsy
The Baltimore dream-pop duo Beach House, which headlines the Boulder Theater on Sunday with some auxiliary musicians, has been steadily touring since its inception in 2004. The group’s silky indierock, as much Nico-era Velvet Underground as Euro-pop in the vein of ...
SLIDESHOW: Cut Copy and Washed Out at the Ogden Theatre, Oct....
Boulder Weekly's Jules Kueffer was at the Cut Copy show at the Ogden Theatre on Oct. 4. Enjoy a slideshow from the night's events.
Scenes from a life
In the earliest days of my residence in the People’s Republic, I lived next door to a guy who designed and crafted molds for...
A certain kind of kin
Fourteen years ago, Yonder Mountain String Band formed over a Guinness in a bar in Nederland, according to a tale spun by guitarist Adam Aijala. The members were young, recently relocated to Colorado and looking for musical companions...
Prieto programs favorites for festival
The Mexican conductor, the second of three candidates for the position of music director of the festival, will lead the full Festival Orchestra in a program of early 20th-century ballets on July 17 and 18, and the Chamber Orchestra in a program of 18th/19th-century ...
A star-studded week at CU
It will be a week of superstars in Boulder.
First will be famed Wagnerian soprano Deborah Voigt, presenting her one-woman show Voigt Lessons at Macky...
Arrivals and departures
The map has always been wide open for Denver’s Carmine Francis. The 33-year-old musician grew up in Pittsburgh and studied music at Berklee in...
Yeeting in America
After nearly a decade grinding through the sweaty basements of the Philadelphia punk scene, it seems the rest of the world has finally caught...
The anguish of slavery
For many, the word “Klezmer” conjures up images of Jewish brides in chairs being hoisted in the air by friends and family while “Hava Nagila” plays in the background, or perhaps the scene in Fiddler on the Roof where men dance with bottles on their heads. But a group...
Boulder bluegrass icon Hot Rize returns to roots
Colorado is well known for its folksy bluegrass scene. Bands like Leftover Salmon, The String Cheese Incident and Yonder Mountain String Band sell out shows all along the Front Range, and Colorado is also home to the yearly, highly-successful RockyGrass festival that...
Life in the elephant cage
As Danny Shafer’s marriage came to an end a couple of years ago, songs began to flow out of him.
“I knew I had to...
