Music
Branching out
The next time you bemoan a bad driver in Boulder with a Texas license plate, or see another “Go Back to Texas and Tell...
Borgore ruined dubstep before anyone else
Borgore wears YouTube trolling like a fat gold chain around his neck...
Homeward bound
She may have left Colorado in the late ’90s, but Seattle-based musician Sera Cahoone returns often to her hometown of Littleton. In fact, the...
Chameleons
Joel Cummins admits that Umphrey’s McGee is not a band whose sound can be described in an easy to digest, cookie-cutter fashion...
The jokers of spades
Not many modern metal groups are featured on NPR’s First Listen or routinely garner nearly a halfmillion YouTube views when a new music video is released. But Portland sludge-rock favorite Red Fang, which plays the Gothic Theatre in Denver this Friday night, has a ...
Spanning the globe at The Dairy
On Oct. 8, The Dairy Arts Center will present a concert titled “World Beat,” but that enticing title could easily be applied to most...
Legendary guitarist Al Stewart rediscovers his obscurities
There was probably mud on their boots when they were marched out to the Katyn Forest that day in 1940...
A certain kind of kin
Fourteen years ago, Yonder Mountain String Band formed over a Guinness in a bar in Nederland, according to a tale spun by guitarist Adam Aijala. The members were young, recently relocated to Colorado and looking for musical companions...
Focus puller
When it came time for singer-songwriter-guitarist William Fitzsimmons to start work on his newest project, Lions — which released in February — it felt like a personal and professional reboot...
Face to Face pens solid summer album
I’m not sure how I have remained completely and utterly unaware of Face To Face until now. They had a big time radio hit with “Disconnected” in 1994, which was back in the pre-iPod days of yore when I would still turn on the radio more than semi-annually. Plus, ...
Crooning for confidence
When a new minister makes a statement moralizing about the evils of homosexuality, what’s the first thing people say? If your friends are as cynical as mine: He’s gotta be gay...
