Music
The frog king cometh
Theoretically, when you drop a stone into water, the ripples continue on forever, ad infinitum.
So while Jeremy Enigk doesn’t regret coming out as...
Rite of passage
Cold War Kids singer/guitarist Nathan Willett feels his group has occupied a rather rare and enviable niche in the music world so far during...
CU NOW presents selections from new opera by Jake Heggie and...
ake Heggie, composer of the opera Dead Man Walking, and Gene Scheer, who wrote librettos for Heggie’s Moby Dick and It’s a Wonderful Life,...
The Constellation Collective: An organization of minor stars
When Kyle Donovan ran sound for a group of soulful songwriters at The Laughing Goat Coffeehouse in the summer of 2016, he knew he...
How magic happens
The sun is shining the day I talk to Stevie Jackson, lead guitarist for the Scottish indie-pop band Belle and Sebastian.
“It rains a...
Lettuce: Praise the master
On a cool and slightly overcast evening at Red Rocks, 37 years ago, Miles Davis was doing what he did in those days; which...
Tales of the road
James McMurtry spends hundreds of hours in the van each year, traveling America’s highways to the 100-plus shows he and his band annually perform.
The...
You can’t turn your back on the blues
Faces/Rolling Stones guitarist Ronnie Wood once said the blues is “part of the makeup of modern music. You can’t turn your back on the...
Jazz sextet, tap dancer, vocalist and choir? It must be Ellington!
Duke Ellington, jazz legend, pianist and band leader, spent the last decade of his life creating and presenting “sacred concerts.” Described by one critic...
MahlerFest XXXI includes chamber and orchestra concerts with a focus on...
The 31st MahlerFest is all about late artistic transformations.
The 2018 festival begins Monday, May 14, and culminates Saturday and Sunday, May 19 and 20,...
Getting through the jungle
For a band that’s spent the last decade writing about the pitfalls of technology, the recent revelations about data harvesting aren’t all that shocking...
Are you the one?
It took a few re-schedules before we managed to get Steven Wilson on the phone, and in retrospect, it was pretty easy to understand...
