Music
Steve Conn reconnects
Steve Conn is one of those serial Boulderites. The legendary musician has moved to town, left Boulder, regretted it and then returned … repeatedly.
“I...
A bigger God
If Joel Ansett’s 2019 album, A Place I Knew Before, was an ode to searching — for meaning, for forgiveness, for peace — then...
You can’t outfox the Fox
It was 1994, and Don Strasburg was walking (running, depending on who tells the story) around his Boulder home with a 101 Dalmatians bed...
Lord Huron’s insatiable search
"All of our representatives are currently busy. The current wait time is seven years,” a recorded voice says when you call 1-877-VIDE-NOIR. The next...
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...
One bite at a time
On April 27, 1994, Tool frontman Maynard James Keenan took his friend/guitar tech Billy Howerdel to see Nine Inch Nails play at The Palace...
Robert on the bus
Discipline Global Mobile, known on the interwebs as DGM, is King Crimson founder and self-admittedly pitiless autocrat Robert Fripp’s label and media organization, responsible...
How the ‘grass’ grew
When Sam Bush takes the Boulder Theater stage on Feb. 20, he will be coming back to his musical second home. With the groundbreaking...
Finn d’epoque
Pollen season seems to be getting the best of Neil Finn when Boulder Weekly catches him on a day off at home in Auckland,...
Shakedown Street is sticking around
My old buddy Len from Virginia called me on Derby Day last week. Len’s not really a horse racing enthusiast, but he calls me...
Still alive
As Pearl Jam’s two-and-a-half-hour, tour-closing show at Ball Arena concluded last night and the Seattle rock group stood on stage thanking fans and crew,...
Annie Booth says, ‘Hello, Boulder’
Pianist Annie Booth has to think a minute or two to recall the last time she trundled her trio up the (unbuckled) highway to...