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REVIEW AND SLIDESHOW: Global Dance Festival Night 2 @ Red Rocks,...
Global Dance Festival has survived a long history of setbacks. Whether it was Paul Van Dyk’s food poisoning or a national initiative against rave culture (the RAVE act, as championed by Joe Biden), what was once known as Rave on the Rocks has persevered and evolved ...
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After more than a year of interviews and a handful of tantalizingly oblique online manifestos aligned with the mission of a shadowy group called The Starset Society, Dustin Bates, lead singer and concepteur behind the Columbus, Ohio-based quartet Starset, wants ...
All hail the Mountain Goats
It’s been more than 20 years since singer-songwriter John Darnielle dropped the lo-fi masterpiece All Hail West Texas into the world. Two decades and...
Hip-hop, exported and imported
What bothers Canadian rapper-singer k-os the most is artist fraud. The artist who projects one image in the music but lives an entirely different one...
All the small things
In his essay introducing the easy-listening compilation Seafaring Strangers: Private Yacht, critic Jon Kirby unpacks the baggage surrounding the oft-maligned subgenre known as “yacht...
In the thick of transition
People from around the world know the Curtis Institute of Music is highly selective. With just a 4.8 percent admission rate, Curtis only grants...
Cowboys are coming to town
Forget Santa and reindeers, Cowboy Christmas is riding into town. On Monday, Nov. 30, legendary country singer and songwriter Michael Martin Murphey is bringing what he calls the “only legitimate American Christmas” concert to eTown Hall...
Todd Snider’s Nashville life creeps into his music
Long since graduated from the anti-heroism of mid-90s, grunge-skeptical, alt-folkie status, Todd Snider has quietly grown into a songwriter of unique vintage, capable of uncorking rickety masterpieces of unsung contenders, sardonic social commentary and offbeat ...
Two days of Jeff Buckley in Boulder
Boulder Weekly music writer Adam Perry has already written...
The end of the world
An upbeat love song might be a strange choice for the lead single from an album about the apocalypse. But not if you’re Parker...
One bite at a time
On April 27, 1994, Tool frontman Maynard James Keenan took his friend/guitar tech Billy Howerdel to see Nine Inch Nails play at The Palace...
