Music

Framed around a stomping, skeletal-funk guitar riff, the lead-off cut from Tommy Castro’s latest LP Method to My Madness strikes a curiously un-bluesy vibe,...

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...

If you want to become a movie star, you should move to Los Angeles. If you’re hoping to get your country music career off the ground, pack your bags for Nashville. But what if you want to be a jazz musician? New York? San Francisco...

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...

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...

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 ...

For Gumbo Le Funque frontman and sax player Jason Justice, there is more to music than having a good time. Getting instruments to kids facing tough economic conditions and high-stakes school testing provides a crucial opportunity for experiential learning, he says. ...

Phrases like “head start” or “early jump” fail to adequately capture the story behind The Big Motif. After all, the seasoned Denver trio average less than 20 years of age among them, yet they’ve been playing together since 2005...

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...

What do the holidays sound like to you? We posed this question to the hardworking staff at Paradise Found Records and Music, who responded...

Any music act with a unique sound is bound to sound familiar from album to album. But violinist Kev Marcus has no problem seeing...

Tone and nuance rule the day on Julian Lage’s last album, Modern Lore. A fancy trio rambles down the dusty roads of between-genre Americana...