Music

It sounds just like Boulder: “a mixture of cheeky irreverence and sophistication, elegant and raucous.” It’s actually conductor Michael Butterman describing the first piece of...

Since disbanding the legendary alt-rock duo Ween, Aaron Freeman (aka Gene Ween) is reinventing his career after leaving the band that defined him for almost three decades...

Katie Mahan...

Though the group and the event started in the same year (1948), Allan Barker, director of the Boulder Timberliners isn’t sure who the longest-running participant in the Barbershop Harmony Festival at Chautauqua is...

In his latest...

It’s been eight years since I began writing an annual year-end feature on 10 great new albums for Boulder Weekly, and the notion of what’s “best” is still far from my mind. As always, this is about sharing, tuning in and turning on, not rating...

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...

The Colorado Music Festival, facing another year without a permanent music director, opens with two weeks of concerts led by guest conductors Marcelo Lehninger...

With all the hallmarks of the classic rocky road to success as a blues musician, Coco Montoya’s story is filled with its share of peaks and valleys. But no matter how you shake it, there always seemed to be a certain feeling of destiny attached to Montoya’s rise to ...

Few bands have ever had the relationship with their music that Menomena has. Few other bands have pushed the envelope without going out of their way like Menomena has. In fact, it’s safe to say that there have been few bands like Menomena, and on their latest album, ...

If you’re a millennial of a certain age and persuasion, the unhinged anti-comedy of Tim Heidecker has likely shaped your cerebral cortex into knots...

In the fall of 1995, Tammy Ealom only knew two chords — open E and open A. She met a guy named John Hill,...