Music
All hail the Mountain Goats
It’s been more than 20 years since singer-songwriter John Darnielle dropped the lo-fi masterpiece All Hail West Texas into the world. Two decades and...
Guest conductors launch 2018 Colorado Music Festival
The Colorado Music Festival, facing another year without a permanent music director, opens with two weeks of concerts led by guest conductors Marcelo Lehninger...
In the Gears
The Music of Cream’s tour manager (his name is Simon), fielded my call to Will Johns a couple of weeks ago, and walked the...
Just here to help make magic
How Your Mom’s House has survived five years as an independent venue in Denver’s competitive music scene
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...
Boulder Philharmonic opens season with ‘joie de vivre’
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...
Review: Counting Crows at Red Rocks, Oct. 12
It’s been just more than 20 years since Counting Crows released its first studio album, August and Everything After, and still the group opened an Oct. 12 performance to a sold-out Red Rocks Ampitheatre audience with a track off that first record, “Sullivan Street...
Slow Motion Sickness
Denver’s The Patient Zeros release their grandest work to date—seven years in the making
How should Tamara Lindeman look at the stars?
Tamara Lindeman wasn’t sure she wanted to share the songs that became her upcoming record, How Is It That I Should Look At The...
Southern hostility
The first moments on the latest Knocked Loose EP feel something like the opening credit sequence of Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining. Recalling the film’s...


















