Music
Dead Tenant comes to Boulder
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...
That Bear Creek sound
The faint whiff of cruel irony wasn’t lost on Elephant Revival’s bassist Dango Rose; merely 10 days after the band members released their new CD These Changing Skies, the skies above their own home turf turned hellish and hammered their neighborhood with the kind of ...
Colorado’s favorite band
A few months back, a link was circulating around the internet as links are wont to do...
Bark at the moon
It was a full moon when the Boulder County trio known as Prairiewolf rolled tape on the first recording session for their self-titled debut...
Jersey Shore and beyond
In the wake of the pitiless thrashing that Sandy delivered to Northern New Jersey and the NYC metro area last November, plenty of musical artists rallied together for benefit projects (most notably the 12/12 Concert) to aid families and towns along the coast. A few ...
A certain kind of magic
Hana Elion and JJ Mitchell, of the Brooklyn-based duo Overcoats, stare at each other across a split screen, both wearing oversized white T-shirts, their...
Growin’ ‘Grass
50 years later, RockyGrass in Lyons has become one of America’s great bluegrass festivals
‘I’m home’
Hazel Miller got into music as a kid, while doing chores.
“My mother had a rule: Saturdays were for cleaning the house,” she says....
My brightest dancer
When Shara Nova laughs, it’s like a break in storm clouds. You can feel warm sunlight flooding over everything in the general vicinity, vanquishing...
Divorce, new beginnings and music
Kelly Crisp talks of Loud Planes Fly Low, the recently released CD she made with her musical partner in The Rosebuds, Ivan Howard, as if it’s the duo’s first album all over again...
North Mississippi Allstars bridge the divide
At first glance, it doesn’t seem like Colorado has anything in common with the Deep South. Yet despite geographical differences, the love of music crosses all boundaries...