Music
Mutual understanding
In June of 1989, a military coup, led by Omar al-Bashir, overtook the government in Sudan. Combined with widespread famine, the military violence in...
A real privilege
Late last year, sometime in October, Rod Argent got a call from Billboard. The Zombies’ new album, Still Got That Hunger, had debuted at...
All you need is bugs
The humble Trevor Powers, who records under the moniker Youth Lagoon, is somewhat of an enigma. His visionary first record, Year of Hibernation, is full of adorably cerebral psychedelic pop written in his dorm room at Boise State University and recorded over ...
CMF ends 2019 season Aug. 3 with Mahler’s Third Symphony
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...
Low profile, high standards
Brandi Carlile is one of those rare musicians who gets it. She’s not up on stage every night trying to be a rock star, the tabloids aren’t all that interested in her, and she’s not constantly making a ruckus or ticking people off with her grandstanding or childish ...
Arrivals and departures
The map has always been wide open for Denver’s Carmine Francis. The 33-year-old musician grew up in Pittsburgh and studied music at Berklee in...
Neal Morse doesn’t apologize for easy listening
"I need to come out of the clouds every now and then,” Neal Morse says, apologizing for being immersed in writing, and calling into our...
Pro Musica Colorado looks ahead and back
The Pro Musica Colorado will look both forward and back in their 2015–16 season, which music director Cynthia Katsarelis and the orchestra call “Remembrance...
Experimental and exploratory
The first time Thomas LaFond came through Boulder, he was only supposed to stay a night or two. But after spending time busking on...
Recording the next chapter
As the soul-streaked strains of Todd Park Mohr’s voice laments the laws of love and justice on the band’s new single “Beautiful,” carried on the wings of one of modern rock’s most effortlessly nimble rhythm sections, it feels as if the Monsters are back again...
