Music
The Young Veins keep it light and nostalgic
What Paul Simon is to Vampire Weekend, The Beatles are to The Young Veins. On their debut Take A Vacation! the band serves as a throwback machine that incessantly pumps out song after song of fun and catchy retro-pop in the same — well — vein of the music that made ...
False ending
In 2020, Denver band FAIM hoped to take what they thought would be their final record to DIY venues all over the United States...
Mountain sun keeps shining on
Boulder’s award-winning Mountain Sun Pub and Brewery will celebrate 16 years of hoppy good times in a huge anniversary bash with The Pearl Street All-Stars, a lineup featuring high-caliber performers from the worlds of soul, funk, rock and fusion. This one-time-only ...
Mike Murray
Thursday, February 20: Mike Murray. 7:30 p.m. Blues and Greens, 800 28th St., Boulder, 303-443-3322...
Unexpected and unfamiliar
The Boulder Philharmonic Orchestra somewhat unexpectedly opens its 2019-20 season Saturday, Oct. 12, with music by two members of the Rock & Roll Hall...
Communikey creativity
As quickly as the subgenres of electronic music become tagged and assimilated and commonly negotiated — trance, drone, dubstep, ambient, et al. — Robert Henke smears the palette and bleeds each into the others. The archetypal pioneer, plowing directly into the ...
Growin’ ‘Grass
50 years later, RockyGrass in Lyons has become one of America’s great bluegrass festivals
Mixing in a few clouds
Matt and Kim have made a career out of creating upbeat, catchy pop anthems that seem tailor-made to get concert crowds smiling, singing and...
Greyhounds, sex and rock ’n’ roll
As The Yawpers played an unofficial South by Southwest set on a riverboat gliding aimlessly through the Colorado River in Austin, Texas, I couldn’t help but feel like Dante Hicks in Clerks. I’m not even supposed to be here today...
‘Punch your way into the party’
Author Erin K. Barnes, who writes under the pen name GoGo Germaine, calls herself a “pretty typical Coloradan.” But the adolescent at the center...
Pretty Lights shine at Red Rocks
Fort Collins DJ Derek Smith, aka Pretty Lights, has quietly built himself into one of the most potent DJ acts this side of the Rocky Mountains, and he has done it mostly via word of mouth and by offering all his music as free downloads from his website...
