Music
Zappa on Zappa
There’s a common misconception that Frank Zappa’s music was closer to Weird Al Yankovic’s than Beethoven’s, but those really in the know understand there’s more sophistication in Zappa’s body of work than one might imagine. Granted, with album titles like Burnt Weeny...
Flying Fish
Vince Herman was in a van last week, somewhere in Northern California, on his way to a gig with Great American Taxi at John Lee Hooker’s Boom Boom Room in San Francisco. The gig was near the tail end of a stretch of late-year gigs Taxi had peeled off in support of ...
Grandoozy these artists
One of the great joys of going to a big music festival is finding new music. Denver’s Grandoozy festival is offering more than 50...
Wind is blowin’ in paradise
If Paul DeHaven’s first solo album, King of Gold, was a question, then his newest release, Echoes and Overtones, is an answer... of a...
In for the long haul
When Linford Detweiler calls, he and his wife/bandmate Karin Bergquist have just crossed the state line into Ohio near Lake Erie. Their folk outfit...
Beth Orton is back at it
Beth Orton’s voice is the milky cloud of cream in your coffee gently dispersing like last light before the twilight. Her trilling coo is sweet and tender but also urgent and foreboding. Almost two decades ago, the U.K. songstress was the girl-of the-moment first ...
‘The rest is noise’
When the Boulder Philharmonic Orchestra kicked off its 65th season last October, it had the whole world in mind. Ozymandias: To Sell a Planet,...
High guru of shock rock
Marilyn Manson doesn’t want to be shocking. In fact, he says that’s impossible...
Digging in the vaults
Pasadena´s Jet Propulsion Laboratory is not usual résumé material for orchestral maestros. But Bahman Saless, who leads the Boulder Chamber Orchestra (BCO) in concerts Friday, Feb. 11, and Saturday, Feb. 12, is not your usual maestro...
