Music
Edward Sharpe saves humanity via gypsy-folk
Up from Below, the debut full-length album from the ecstatic Los Angeles musical cult known as Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros, is in many ways a revelation. The group’s aciddrenched science-fiction is a welcome throwback for older hippies (reformed and not) who ...
Final weekend of CMF packs variety
The Colorado Music Festival (CMF) ends the 2016 season this weekend with performances representing a portion of the breadth and variety the festival has...
Born in a barn
For guitarist Steve Kimock, making music is something that happens organically. So it should be of no surprise that his latest album, Last Danger...
You can’t turn your back on the blues
Faces/Rolling Stones guitarist Ronnie Wood once said the blues is “part of the makeup of modern music. You can’t turn your back on the...
REVIEW: Queens of the Stone Age at Red Rocks, 08-15-13
Call me a fanboy. Call me obsessed. Call me what ever you'd like, but I'm of the firm belief that no band has made better rock music over the past decade-and-a-half than Queens of the Stone Age. Queens is one of the few great bands whose output has never once ...
Lionel Young
Saturday, December 28: The Lionel Young Band. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 North Park Drive, Lafayette, 303- 665-2757...
No caps, no scruffy trainers
It had been a few years — well, more like eight years — since we had last caught up to William Topley, and prior to our transatlantic chat, we thought we’d have a look at the British singer’s upcoming gigs. We noticed a monthly gig for the ex-Blessing frontman at ...
The perils of being a blog band
The argument has been decided for so long now, it seems quaint to even mention it. But back in 2005, there were serious discussions about whether music blogs could possibly impact the conversation that had for so long been dominated by stodgy music mags, ...
Mozart, movies and more at the Dairy
Some of Boulder’s best musicians want to see you at the Dairy.
That’s the punning implication of the new series CU@The Dairy, presented jointly by...
‘The blood of the universe’
Once critics think they’ve got a band figured out, it can be a tough spell to break. Just ask Mt. Joy, the LA-based quintet...
Dancing with the chaos
If we are what we read, then Nick Murphy is a soul on a journey — a shaman in training.
Like most voracious readers, the...


















