Music
Success breeds new wheels
Laura Stevenson knew from an early age that she loved music — enough, in fact, to believe it probably would always be a big part of her life...
Mike Dillon’s elegant chaos
We’re not sure who observed once that “timing is everything,” probably someone somewhere whose timing sucked at exactly the wrong juncture, but Mike Dillon’s timing is pretty good. Not just because he’s a drummer/percussionist/vibraphonist — with a resume that ...
3OH!3 finally get a break to work on new music
On the Dec. 4 broadcast of the mtvU Woodie Awards, Sean Foreman and Nathaniel Motte walked out on stage to present the Left Field Woodie Award dressed like a couple of Lady Gagas. Foreman and Motte, known as the Boulder-bred group 3OH!3, lost the Best New Artist ...
Adventures in geography and gender
Two of Boulder’s choral groups will separately spend the weekend exploring geography and gender.
Happily, both programs will be given twice in the Boulder area....
Concrete Blonde tours for the fun of it
Concrete Blonde are that rare animal, an alt-rock band with staying power. The group’s first, self-titled album got the band’s career rolling in 1986, but it wasn’t until 1990’s Bloodletting, featuring the singles, “Joey,” “Bloodletting (The Vampire Song)” and “...
The world is your oyster
Multi-instrumentalist Cautious Clay follows his intuition toward high acclaim
Piece by piece
Place is a point of tension for Chris Bowers Castillo. The creative force behind Denver experimental indie trio Kiltro was born and raised in...
You’ll need a shot to rock at Z2
Lollapalooza. Telluride Blues and Brews. Bonnaroo. Across the country, music festivals and entertainment venues are requiring patrons to show proof of full vaccination for...
As written
In the spring of 2018, Icelandic singer-songwriter Ásgeir put a vinyl recording in a specifically engineered waterproof bottle and dropped it into Arctic Ocean...
Bass Instincts
It's 4:30 in the morning, halfway across the world in Australia, and Stanley Clarke is resting the world’s most renowned electric bass chops when the call comes...
Haydn’s happy creation
There are lightning and thunder, leaping tigers and creeping serpents.
All of that and more is portrayed musically in The Creation by Joseph Haydn, but conductor...
Bahman Saless will take the night off from the BCO
Boulder Chamber Orchestra (BCO) has some holiday surprises planned for a concert Saturday (Dec. 21) that opens with music by Mozart. And one of...


















