Music
Homeward bound
She may have left Colorado in the late ’90s, but Seattle-based musician Sera Cahoone returns often to her hometown of Littleton. In fact, the...
America’s sweethearts
Combing through the seemingly endless constellation of articles about Oklahoma City noise rock band Chat Pile since their full-length debut God’s Country crashed into...
‘The rest is noise’
When the Boulder Philharmonic Orchestra kicked off its 65th season last October, it had the whole world in mind. Ozymandias: To Sell a Planet,...
Return of CMF mini-festival and former director
Fans of Brahms’s warm Romanticism (and who in the classical audience isn’t?) have much to look forward to.
In three concerts, the Colorado Music Festival...
Hip-hop, exported and imported
What bothers Canadian rapper-singer k-os the most is artist fraud. The artist who projects one image in the music but lives an entirely different one...
Professional development
When Emelise Munoz was young—younger than she is now—passersby would hear her busking down the street, drawn by her deep, soulful voice, surprised to...
Punching back in
When she moved from San Diego to Boulder in 2007 my partner, Irene, was hoping to discover Colorado musicians who moved her as much as the reggae-tinged San Diego-based alt-folkie Beth Preston had. So one can imagine Irene’s surprise when she went grocery shopping at...
The real Joe Satriani
Guitar great Joe Satriani remembers a random encounter he had with the late comedian Robin Williams that illustrates, at least to an extent, a...
California Guitar Trio, mostly
It’s a bit of humor, really, and not necessarily of deep artistic import, but the graphic accompanying the social media announcement of dates for...


















