Music
The upbeat cynicism of J.W. Schuller
The suit jacket wasn’t gold lamé or anything garish like that — no offense, gold lamé; rock ‘n’ roll wouldn’t be the same without...
We’ve got the jazz
If you want to become a movie star, you should move to Los Angeles. If you’re hoping to get your country music career off the ground, pack your bags for Nashville. But what if you want to be a jazz musician? New York? San Francisco...
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...
Paper Bird spreads its wings
For any band, breaking out of the hometown turf and onto the national scene is a laborious task. For bands on the Front Range where touring means plowing through hundreds of small-scale, mid-America spots to get to either coast it can be even more difficult to garner...
The gravitational pull of Zimmer
Two black holes circling each other deep in space, going round and round until they finally collide. The impact sends waves rippling out into...
Running through walls
Any music act with a unique sound is bound to sound familiar from album to album. But violinist Kev Marcus has no problem seeing...
Country style granola
When Kristina Murray first started performing her country/Americana songs around Boulder County, there simply weren’t many people doing what she does. And to this day, country in Boulder stands out like a three-piece suit at a hoedown...
Ars Nova singers open season with the Monet of choral music
If Monet’s paintings were music, they would be the choral works of Maurice Duruflé.
That’s the view of Thomas Edward Morgan, director of Boulder’s Ars...
Found Sounds: Dec. 19 (Holiday edition)
What do the holidays sound like to you? We posed this question to the hardworking staff at Paradise Found Records and Music, who responded...
The ‘lovechild of funky soul and dirty blues’
Noah John Rondeau was a wellknown hermit of the Adirondack Mountains in upstate, rural New York. Rondeau, who said that he was “not wellsatisfied with the world and its trends,” began his hermitdom in 1929 at age 46, moving to a remote area in the Northeastern woods ...
Shifting forward, backwards and sideways
Kate Stables relishes in duality. It’s the scaffolding around which the Paris-based, U.K.-born banjoist builds much of her new album, Off Off On, her...
Hardcore plus electric equals skrillectrostep
Once an obscure corner of English electronic music, dubstep will likely become a mainstream American sound in a matter of months — look no further than dubstep champ Rusko talking production with Britney Spears for definitive evidence that the genre’s days in the ...


















