Music

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...

By the end of every year, I end up with a stack of new books about music so tall I end up needing more...

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...

What the hell is Matt Costa doing on Jack Johnson’s Brushfire Records? Everything about his music should be the anti-Jack Johnson, the personification of California’s oxymoronic laid-back image. Costa’s work on his latest album, Mobile Chateau, is laced with ’60s ...

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...

Andy Thorn has always walked a fine line between tradition and experimentation. Even as a kid in bluegrass-obsessed North Carolina, watching banjo greats chop...

What's in Boulder's headphones this week? From T-Swift to Alex G, these are the albums flying off the shelves at the city's last-standing record...

Have you ever been stranded in an airport between flights? If so, Boulder’s Ars Nova Singers and Denver’s Stratus Ensemble have a musical program for...

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...

Nicholas Carthy describes La traviata as “the perfect Verdi opera.” Based on the 1848 novel by Alexandre Dumas, La Dame aux Camélias (The lady of...

It`s becoming pretty clear that the summer of 2010 will be the launching point of Octopus Nebula’s success. This is the year when hard work is converted directly into new studio albums, national tour dates and even chumming around with the big names at Colorado’s ...

A choral piece for “only” 19 parts is almost too easy for the experienced voices of Boulder’s Ars Nova Singers. Last year they sang two...