Music
REVIEW: Soundgarden at Red Rocks, July 18
A tumultuous roaring sound of fans whistling, screaming and clapping their hands filled Red Rocks Amphitheatre Monday night for a sold out Soundgarden show. A couple of songs into their almost two-hour-long set, Chris Cornell, the frontman of the legendary grunge-...
The wisdom of Wilco
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-...
Pass the drumstick
CR Gruver is stuck in New Orleans rush hour traffic, on the phone and wolfing down some dinner, crinkling food wrapper rustling and the...
Boulder Chamber Orchestra celebrates 10th season with wide variety of works
Call it “Bahman’s bon-bons...
Johnny O’s blues sky
Someone once said that the relative dearth of blues musicians around here is actually a weather thing; who can sing the blues under 300 annual days of sunshine...
Back-to-back spreading the energy
The Acidophiles want to take you on a trip In Amandha Gilson’s biology textbook at CSU, the word “acidophile” referred to an organism that flourished in an acidic, normally inhospitable environment. As a band name, it evokes lonely, beautiful imagery of obscure ...
‘No rules’
It was a particularly shreddy lick in the Power Rangers theme song that made Paul DeHaven want to play guitar.
“I was like, ‘Mom, I...
Longmont Symphony’s ‘Musical Journeys’ take many forms
"Musical Journeys” is the thread running through the 2018–19 season of the Longmont Symphony Orchestra (LSO), and it takes different forms in each of...
Luigi Cherubini is a gem
Maria Luigi Carlo Zenobio Salvatore Cherubini just may be the most influential classical composer you have never heard of.
As director of the Paris Conservatoire...
Out of the void
The concept of Shoshin arose from the teachings of 13th-century Buddhist priest and philosopher Dōgen Zenji. Practitioners of the ancient discipline are taught to...
Rocky Mountain breakdown
The Revivalists were supposed to be on the main stage at the 2015 Telluride Blues & Brews Festival in less than an hour, and...
Magic in the acoustic guitar
We don’t know, and wouldn’t ask, if Andy McKee was a church-going kind of guy. But preparing for our interview, we came across a...


















