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...
Climate classicism
What’s the sound of a biosphere on the brink? For Drew Hemenger, the answer to that question lies in a multitude of voices. That’s why...
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...
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...
The sound of transience
Stymied by “a blend of anxiety and boredom” in the lockdown days of the pandemic, Simon Green frequently drove outside of Los Angeles in...
Renowned composer Jake Heggie works on his newest opera
It’s a wonderful life for Jake Heggie right now.
As the composer of two highly successful operas, Dead Man Walking (2000) and Moby Dick (2010),...
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...
Robert Olson’s last concert as music director
Robert Olson has changed the Longmont Symphony, and the Longmont Symphony has changed him.
“I’m very, very proud of what we’ve done over three decades,”...
You can go home again
Katherine “KP” Paul didn’t mean to write an album in the uncertain summer of 2020, but homecomings have a knack for surprise. Known by...
CMF ends 2019 season Aug. 3 with Mahler’s Third Symphony
Music Director Peter Oundjian will conduct the final two weeks of the Colorado Music Festival 2019 season, with four orchestral concerts July 25–Aug. 3.
Oundjian’s...
Slow Motion Sickness
Denver’s The Patient Zeros release their grandest work to date—seven years in the making
My brightest dancer
When Shara Nova laughs, it’s like a break in storm clouds. You can feel warm sunlight flooding over everything in the general vicinity, vanquishing...
