Music
A certain kind of magic
Hana Elion and JJ Mitchell, of the Brooklyn-based duo Overcoats, stare at each other across a split screen, both wearing oversized white T-shirts, their...
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...
An unexpected path
Until high school, composer Gustav Hoyer had never played an instrument, so he’d certainly never considered a career as a musician.
But a class in...
Manna from pop heaven
When Tom McFarland is touring in the States, he likes to “dip back into the American classics,” listening to Simon & Garfunkel when he’s...
Slow Motion Sickness
Denver’s The Patient Zeros release their grandest work to date—seven years in the making
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...
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...
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),...
For A Far Cry, ‘Memory’ has many meanings
A Far Cry, a self-directed string ensemble of 17 players headquartered in Boston, will play “Memory” Saturday (Feb. 8) in Macky Auditorium.
No, not the...
Worth the wait
Ruth Moody, the high-flying soprano for the Canadian folk trio The Wailin’ Jennys, is vacationing with her family in Wisconsin prior to hitting the...
Honing the narrative craft
In light of the spate of music biopics and memoirs that have come out recently, anyone expecting lots of hot dishing when they crack...


















