Music
The Laughing Bones give cool performance at Beaver Creek’s Crystal Grotto
More Beaver Creek content: Resort good for beginners, too; Beaver Creek's varied terrain, open runs set resort apart...
It is what it is
Shifting gears” is one of those colloquialisms that, once hatched as an automotive term, has slithered its way into the irretrievably tainted waters of...
Beethoven’s path to the future
Violinist/conductor Peter Oundjian served as artistic advisor of the Colorado Music Festival (CMF) for the 2018 season, a position halfway between giving advice and...
The whole gamut
Boulder Art & JazzFest is the icing on an already decadent cake that is the 4th of July holiday weekend. Taking place from July...
The many lives of a young Vagabon
"I’m talking to you like you’re my therapist,” Laeticia Tamko says toward the end of our sprawling phone conversation. She’s open, yes, but it’s...
Beyond politics
If you’ve ever heard any of Jason Isbell’s songs, chances are you know what he believes. The acclaimed singer-songwriter is known for being direct,...
Fun is what Cobra Starship does best
Sometimes, a band can tell when it’s making a hit song. That’s the story of Cobra Starship and “Good Girls Go Bad...
The magic of the session
The story of Ímar — the traditional Irish music group, not the ninth-century Viking king the band is named after — starts, unsurprisingly, in...
Continuing the Celtic tradition
Being a singer in Celtic Woman had been a long-held dream for Éabha McMahon. Now, after more than a year in the group, she...
Mystery music man
In 1994, Portishead dropped an album that would cement trip-hop as a legitimate genre of music and make stars out of Beth Gibbons, Geoff Barrow and Adrian Utley. Although the band detested the “trip-hop” label, their debut album Dummy defined the genre. Filled with ...
Mike Doughty scraps the band
When Mike Doughty released Sad Man Happy Man this past October, he wasn’t sure how his fans were going to react. The former Soul Coughing front man has been putting out albums on his own since 2002. The popular “Looking at the World from the Bottom of a Well,” off ...
Those barbaric Yawpers
No one knows for certain why some bands connect with the public and others don’t. It’s a mystery that musicians and critics have argued about for ages. No Doubt wallowed in obscurity for almost a decade until Gwen Stefani began writing accusatory songs about her ...
