Music

Lionel Young

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Saturday, December 28: The Lionel Young Band. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 North Park Drive, Lafayette, 303- 665-2757...

Dancing with the chaos

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If we are what we read, then Nick Murphy is a soul on a journey — a shaman in training.  Like most voracious readers, the...

You can’t turn your back on the blues

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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...

Final weekend of CMF packs variety

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The Colorado Music Festival (CMF) ends the 2016 season this weekend with performances representing a portion of the breadth and variety the festival has...

The perils of being a blog band

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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, ...

Standing still and a lust for bass at The Dairy

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The clarinetist says the hardest part is standing still. The violinist also plays the piano because she has a “lust for bass.” It should be...

Talking Dead

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When 71-year-old Phil Lesh, founding member of the Grateful Dead and widely acknowledged as one of rock ’n’ roll’s greatest bassists, called Boulder Weekly a few weeks back, there was a hint of satisfaction in his voice...

The wisdom of Wilco

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Wilco is a chameleon band. The group’s sound has changed dramatically in the 17 years since the release of its first L.P., A.M. Anchored by guitarist and songwriter Jeff Tweedy, Wilco bridges country, rock and alternative genres with grace and ease, and the once-...

Two days of Jeff Buckley in Boulder

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Boulder Weekly music writer Adam Perry has already written...

Boulder Symphony comes full circle

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The Boulder Symphony has returned from its Front Range migration...

Edward Sharpe saves humanity via gypsy-folk

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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 ...

Wilder by the day

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One lesson Alexander Beggins says he and his musical partner in Wild Child, Kelsey Wilson, learned early in their careers was not to get...