Music

Found Sounds: Nov. 23, 2022

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It finally happened. For the first time since its Oct. 21 release, Taylor Swift’s Midnights has slipped from the top spot in our weekly...

Climate classicism

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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...

Classical culture

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Music festivals are springing up all around Colorado this time of year like columbines blooming along mountain hiking trails, from classical music in Aspen and Breckenridge to opera in Central City to bluegrass in Telluride and Lyons. The Colorado Music Festival, ...

Aural orgy

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While most of America was dealing chips and cracking cold ones in anticipation of the Super Bowl last Sunday, DeVotchKa’s Nick Urata was at home, catching his breath from an afternoon band rehearsal. The iconoclastic Denver quartet had a Valentine’s gig coming up — ...

The real Joe Satriani

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Guitar great Joe Satriani remembers a random encounter he had with the late comedian Robin Williams that illustrates, at least to an extent, a...

The sound of transience

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Stymied by “a blend of anxiety and boredom” in the lockdown days of the pandemic, Simon Green frequently drove outside of Los Angeles in...

Record year: Great music in 2012

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The state of original music in this country is wonderful. It could be argued that, although corporate-owned mainstream radio has eschewed what’s clearly good, honest music, for what will sell (and what’s released by labels owned by the aforementioned corporations), ...

Rev. Horton Heat confesses to less punk, more country on new...

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Reverend Horton Heat wants his fans to...

The firmament in 4/4

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When iconic Grateful Dead drummer and ethno-musicologist Mickey Hart rolls his band through town on Dec. 9, he’ll be bringing along a little of the cosmos...

Growing a new sound

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Tyler Grant has a National Flatpicking Championship under his belt, solo releases and a resume stacked with names of artists he’s worked with. Yet, even through his successes during his time in mythical Nashville, Tenn., the guitarist was always waiting for a chance ...

It’s about time

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It was the cover. The cover kind of said something, and then it kind of said something else, because the times and the world...

Metalachi wants to see your chi-chis

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Mariachi meets metal. No, really...