Music

Jersey Shore and beyond

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In the wake of the pitiless thrashing that Sandy delivered to Northern New Jersey and the NYC metro area last November, plenty of musical artists rallied together for benefit projects (most notably the 12/12 Concert) to aid families and towns along the coast. A few ...

Lettuce: Praise the master

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On a cool and slightly overcast evening at Red Rocks, 37 years ago, Miles Davis was doing what he did in those days; which...

Box it up

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With the holiday shopping season in full fidelity, finding the perfect gift for that special music obsessive in your life can be a stiff...

Green light for Boulder band Na’an Stop

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The five friends who make up Na’an Stop couldn’t believe they sold out their first headlining show at the Fox Theater last January. It was a big achievement for the reggae-roots band born out of CU-Boulder, which had been slowly gaining recognition around town for ...

Notes from the road

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When was the last time you spent an anniversary in Cincinnati...

Near-lost composers come to life at Colorado Music Festival

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Boulder’s Chautauqua this summer will be home to several music festivals...

REVIEW, SLIDESHOW: Amon Tobin at Boulder Theater, Oct. 18

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Bravo, Amon Tobin. That is how you put on a transcendental light show. I feel like I just witnessed Berlioz conducting his Symphonie Fantastique.The ISAM installation is a gorgeous and unprecedented display of technological mastery featuring Amon Tobin. With Tobin ...

Breaking the mold

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After beginning its career playing basements and sleeping in vans, Atlanta-based metal outfit Mastodon has, over the course of its roughly decade-long career, become one of the most important and dominating metal bands in the country...

Legendary guitarist Al Stewart rediscovers his obscurities

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There was probably mud on their boots when they were marched out to the Katyn Forest that day in 1940...

Hometown pachyderms

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Right up there with Leftover Salmon and Big Head Todd, Elephant Revival is one of those handful of Boulder bands iconic to the city, but also widely known beyond the People’s Republic. But that status also comes with the price of not being able to play its hometown ...

Bluegrass without borders

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Bluegrass lovers revere the genre’s legendary pickers and singers. And every July at RockyGrass — the high holiday for Front Range fanatics taking place...

Apropos, at least for the moment

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Andrew Bird has his own reality TV show. Which seems uncharacteristic for the singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist known for his whimsical lyrics and perfectly...