Music
‘Mistakes are just things we didn’t mean to play’
By all accounts, Victor Wooten is a great musician. He’s won five Grammy’s, been named one of the top 10 bassists of all time...
Travels with Trace
Midday in Brooklyn, and Trace Bundy is chilling after a “pretty much sold out” show the night before when Boulder Weekly catches up with...
Stepping outside the country box
Phil Vassar found out that country music is still a play-it-safe genre when the song “Bobbi With An I” was floated to radio as a first single off of his current CD, The Traveling Circus...
Weird karma
Zach Carothers was a few minutes late for our phone chat a couple of weeks ago, uncharacteristic of a guy who is usually punctual to a fault fulfilling his role as Portugal.The.Man’s unofficial spokesman. Carothers is an affable bloke, always at ease with press types...
moe. blows out a few candles
About three weeks ago, the dutiful webmaster running moe.’s homepage linked to a piece lauding the band’s long-tenured moe.down festival, held in upstate New York, as one of the world’s best music festivals, putting the low-key and locally beloved event alongside ...
Spooking the horses
A name like Riot Fest isn’t subtle. And back in July, neither were the residents of Byers, Colo...
Family circus
In the fall of 1995, Tammy Ealom only knew two chords — open E and open A. She met a guy named John Hill,...
BCO offers classical option for New Year’s Eve
Bahman Saless and the Boulder Chamber Orchestra offered their first New Year’s Eve concert two years ago. Saless saw an open niche and decided to fill it...
Rite of passage
Cold War Kids singer/guitarist Nathan Willett feels his group has occupied a rather rare and enviable niche in the music world so far during...