Music
Roots and wings, shadows and light
On his way back from his honeymoon on Vancouver Island in 2018, Antonio Lopez picked up a copy of the “local alternative rag,” The...
Boulder Philharmonic opens season with ‘joie de vivre’
It sounds just like Boulder: “a mixture of cheeky irreverence and sophistication, elegant and raucous.”
It’s actually conductor Michael Butterman describing the first piece of...
It will be ukuleles and a Broadway witch for the holidays
Ah, the holiday season. That wonderful time for your favorite carols, colored lights, egg nog and — ukuleles?
Sure enough, it’s all part of the...
Phoebe Bridgers’ whimsical stage show gave Red Rocks’ natural beauty a...
When my sixth-grader, Sidney, and I were biking home from school yesterday I started idly singing Phoebe Bridgers’ “Kyoto,” which has been one of...
A final bow
To help generate a buzz for the release of its latest CD, If Not Now, When, Incubus’ management came up with a novel idea. The band would rent out a gallery storefront in Los Angeles, set up its instruments and play shows in this small space for six nights over a ...
Slow Motion Sickness
Denver’s The Patient Zeros release their grandest work to date—seven years in the making
Leo Kottke
Thursday, February 20: Leo Kottke. 8 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030...
From grades to the Gothic
Balancing high school, extracurriculars and college prep is hard enough — until you throw in band practice, late shows and planning a tour. But somehow, the members of Hatrick Penry can do it all...
We’re just getting started
Modern politics and media are so intertwined it’s hard to view one without the other. But hasn’t it always been this way? Where would...
Big Gigantic rolls up its sleeves
By this time, while most of the national press has moved on and the TV cameras are all wearing local station logos, and chocolate-brown waters are lazily carrying pieces of Boulder County toward the Missouri River, Colorado’s northern Front Range communities are ...
Review: Soundgarden at the 1stBank Center, 5-28-13
On a crisp overcast Tuesday night at the 1stBank Center in Broomfield, ’90s rock legends Soundgarden arrived on scene to deliver the riff. While my editor and I were busy procuring a beer, at approximately 8:30 p.m. the opening chords of “Spoonman” reverberated ...