Music

The Academy Is ... isn't afraid of taking chances...

Until high school, composer Gustav Hoyer had never played an instrument, so he’d certainly never considered a career as a musician. But a class in...

Documenting Charley Crockett’s influences is like a history lesson in mid-20th century music. From the pioneer of electric blues to swamp pop to one...

Johann Sebastian Bach wrote Chaconne in D Minor between 1717 and 1723. In August 2013, Dead Tenant uploaded Chaconne in D Minor as performed on an electric guitar to YouTube...

Sunday, March 9: Real Estate. 9 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1128 12th St., Boulder, 303-447-0095...

For Widespread Panic, it’s all about the flow...

A recent feature story in The Atlantic took a funny and insightful look at Yonder Mountain String Band’s Harvest Music Festival, staged a couple of months ago in the Ozark National Forest in Arkansas. The piece was as much about the band-sponsored music festival ...

The Holiday Hoedown...

 Land of the free, sure, but every once in a great while, there will be a story in local and national media that details an American artist’s struggle against censorship. If an artist is in fact fined or jailed, the general response of many Americans is pure outrage ...

Wilco is a chameleon band. The group’s sound has changed dramatically in the 17 years since the release of its first L.P., A.M. Anchored by guitarist and songwriter Jeff Tweedy, Wilco bridges country, rock and alternative genres with grace and ease, and the once-...

Rostam Batmanglij, keyboardist/ vocalist for Vampire Weekend, was trying to sum up the differences between the band’s new CD, Contra, and its 2008 self-titled debut disc when he hit upon something that seemed to fit. “I remember someone told us that they thought ...

Sarah Jarosz always stood out in a crowd even when she was a tiny 12-year-old kid standing on the big stage at the Telluride...