Music
Beneath the mask
In a post-Daft Punk world, putting on a mask to hide your identity has almost become a prerequisite for emerging DJs. SBTRKT, Deadmau5, Marshmello...
Americana deluxe
When Rob Ickes takes the stage at Boulder’s Chautauqua Community House with Trey Hensley on Dec. 4, the first few rows will likely be...
In for the long haul
When Linford Detweiler calls, he and his wife/bandmate Karin Bergquist have just crossed the state line into Ohio near Lake Erie. Their folk outfit...
In session
Travis LaBerge’s family didn’t have a lot growing up, but there was always music in the house. Despite living between paychecks, his parents socked...
Pass the drumstick
CR Gruver is stuck in New Orleans rush hour traffic, on the phone and wolfing down some dinner, crinkling food wrapper rustling and the...
Boulder Bach Festival returns to the B-Minor Mass, but differently
Conductor Zachary Carrettin and the Boulder Bach Festival return to one of J.S. Bach’s masterworks of their repertoire on Sunday (Nov. 11), the Mass...
Tommy Castro faces a midlife crisis
Guitarist/songwriter Tommy Castro, one of the West Coast blues scene’s hardest-working and most ferociously engaging figures, swings back into Boulder tonight for a midweek gig at the Outlook. For a guy who plays the Blues Cruise once or twice a year and ...
CU’s Eklund Opera presents a Victorian-era ghost story
The next production of the University of Colorado Eklund Opera Program, Benjamin Britten’s The Turn of the Screw, is a Victorian-era ghost story. Whether...
Riding for the feeling
When local singer-songwriter Patrick Dethlefs looks back on his earliest memories, he hears the sound of his dad’s guitar. Music filled the rooms of...
‘A space of awe and wonder’
J.S. Bach’s monumental Mass in B Minor is one of the great works in the European musical tradition.
Cynthia Katsarelis, conductor of the Pro Musical...
‘When things are made too easy, spirituality is lost’
Some years ago, pianist Mina Gajić found herself at Maison Erard in Amsterdam, staring at a teal 1835 Erard grand piano. She was enamored...
BEING %uFFFDGENE WEEN%uFFFD
Since disbanding the legendary alt-rock duo Ween, Aaron Freeman (aka Gene Ween) is reinventing his career after leaving the band that defined him for almost three decades...


















