Music
Delta blues
The great Mississippi River flood of 1927 began when more than 100 levees broke early in the year. It resulted in more than 27,000 square miles of land being flooded, lasted for almost eight months, and is the most destructive flood in the history of the United ...
Mason Reed falls prey to his own pretension
The most on-target aspect of hippie-blues rocker Mason Reed’s latest EP, You Can’t Come Back From Heaven, is the CD packaging. The cover features a slightly dazed Reed looking resolutely through his aviators and out the windshield of a blurry automobile. Sun-...
Ars Nova Singers to perform 40-part pieces
In the history of European choral music, there are two major works that were composed for 40 different voice parts.
Yes, that’s four-zero, 40 parts,...
REVIEW: Eliot Lipp at the Fox Theatre, Dec. 7
For those who didn’t sweat the end of another semester, last...
Winter is coming… and that’s OK
Sometimes (OK, most of the time), turning out like our parents isn’t such a bad thing. Take, for example, fiddler player Natalie Padilla (that’s...
Killswitch Engage is looking back to look forward
This November and December Killswitch Engage is spending a month looking back at a key point in its career, marking the 10-year anniversary of the release of the band’s second album, Alive Or Just Breathing...
Moments of panic, averted
In This Moment may still be finishing up its touring cycle behind its fourth album, Blood, with the second leg of its “Hellpop” tour this January. But already, the band has mapped out the next phase of its career...
Near-lost composers come to life at Colorado Music Festival
Boulder’s Chautauqua this summer will be home to several music festivals...
