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...
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...
1stBank Center’s new management delivers
For a slideshow of the March 5 Furthur concert as well as photos of the 1stBank Center, click here...
‘An adventure for the listener’
You know it’s an unusual Christmas concert when one of the composers is the fearsome atonal composer Arnold Schoenberg.
But conductor Bahman Saless, who has...
Tried and true troubadours
These days, the word “troubadour” has become virtually synonymous with “singer.” Yet if you take a look back to medieval days when the word emerged, you’ll see that the original meaning was much less inclusive. In order to be classified as a troubadour, one couldn’t ...
Scratching the surface
People often describe Arooj Aftab’s music as mystical or meditative, both terms the singer, composer and producer resists. She finds it all a bit...
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...
The humble band with ambition
When people ask how the six members of the vocal rock band Face met each other, they say Eharmony.com and it always gets a chuckle, says Mark Megibow, the vocal drummer of Face. After 14 years in-theworks, Face has come to be loved by their fellow Colorado natives ...
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 ...
Zuill Bailey and Boulder Phil will perform ‘unbelievably successful’ new piece
Zuill Bailey loves watching the audience as he performs.
Unlike pianists and other soloists with orchestra, Bailey, a cellist, sits facing the audience when he...
Looking in from the Pharcyde
Name a group that released a debut album so potent it sustained interest in the group, with relatively modest help from from subsequent albums, for decades...
Dr. Dog is helping resurrect lo-fi rock, not like they’ll admit...
Two years ago, Philadelphia’s Dr. Dog — a quirky, loveable indie-soul band that released its so-so sixth album Shame, Shame on April 6 — packed Denver’s Hi-Dive, a tiny bar on South Broadway that holds about 200 people when the fire department isn’t looking. ...
















