Music
Eulogy of self
Composers who write their own musical eulogies do not usually create jolly pieces.
Dmitri Shostakovich, who suffered various forms of personal and artistic oppression throughout...
Flogging Molly’s new live CD/DVD delivers
Homecoming. If you’re an American, the term immediately conjures images of football games on crisp autumn nights and awkward high school dances. Strip away the cultural connotations, however, and you’re left with the simple idea of returning home. For fans of Celtic-...
Free CDs and mp3s
To hear Khouri Austin tell it, nobody in The Foodchain sat up one day and said, “Let’s start a band...
Liquid gold
As rock ’n’ roll got restless during the countercultural turn of the 1960s, the music began to cry out for a visual counterpart to...
Mason Reed falls prey to his own pretension
The most on-target aspect of hippie-blues rocker Mason Reed’s latest EP, You Can’t Come Back From Heaven, is the CD packaging. The cover features a slightly dazed Reed looking resolutely through his aviators and out the windshield of a blurry automobile. Sun-...
Paper Bird spreads its wings
For any band, breaking out of the hometown turf and onto the national scene is a laborious task. For bands on the Front Range where touring means plowing through hundreds of small-scale, mid-America spots to get to either coast it can be even more difficult to garner...
Found Sounds: Dec. 19 (Holiday edition)
What do the holidays sound like to you? We posed this question to the hardworking staff at Paradise Found Records and Music, who responded...
Emerging from the shadows
Karen Elson on being the musician who is Jack White’s wife Karen Elson is not Jack White’s wife. Well, technically she is, but the famous model-turned-musician lives under a looming shadow of attachment to The White Stripes that seems a bit unfair. Perhaps ...
A way through
The sound of Other Lives’ new record, For Their Love, is the sound of frontman Jesse Tabish breaking through a prolonged period of depression.
The...
Do it in the Dirt
The members of the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band make up one of those musical ensembles that has always defied category. For hyphen-happy reviewers, there never seemed to be enough dashes to capture the band’s ever-evolving essence...
Nikki Hill
Thursday, January 2: Nikki Hill. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Outlook Hotel & Home of the Blues, 800 28th St., Boulder, 303-443-3322...
