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There is a tendency to want to compare The Felice Brothers to the past — to say they sound like The Band, Bob Dylan...
MahlerFest XXXII offers two orchestral concerts in expanded schedule
Colorado MahlerFest is growing.
This year, the 32nd edition of the festival will feature more repertoire than ever, including two separate orchestra programs in Macky...
Boulder band Envy Alo introduces boogaloo fusion and new vocals
It’s been two years since the Boulder-based band Envy Alo dropped their first album, One Time, but the soulful rock/funk band hasn’t stopped working,...
Heavier than hell
Before it was a common stop on most major touring schedules, Ethan McCarthy had a hard time convincing heavy bands to come play the...
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...
Dirtwire’s restless walkabout
The thing starts a little ominously, the nervous whine of an arpeggio picked across a Telecaster with heavy reverb, a loping tempo behind it,...
Bach to Boulder
The slogan “Across Time Across Cultures” has been a theme of the Boulder Bach Festival for much of Zachary Carrettin’s 10-year run as music...
Bring da motherfuckin’ ruckus
Like so many of life’s great mysteries, it all began with a press release. On July 27, the U.S. Department of Justice sent out a...
The many sides of Reggie Williams
In a bedroom in Nashville, Tennessee, lined with Fleet Foxes and Cowboy Bebop posters sits a sleepy Reggie Williams. A musician from Bradenton, Florida,...
Going through phases
Lindsey Stirling could not have experienced a more abrupt and dramatic stop to her music activities than what happened when the pandemic hit in...
Dare you to move
Twenty years ago, an up-and-coming SoCal alt-rock outfit called Switchfoot took a gut punch. The band had just turned in The Beautiful Letdown, which...
The best of both worlds
In 1969, thousands of people crammed into the Royal Albert Hall in London to watch Deep Purple perform their Concerto for Group and Orchestra...


















