Music

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 ...

What began as a coincidence has become a ballet. After being serendipitously featured together in both Westword and 5280 magazines, Denver band Paper Bird and Ballet Nouveau Colorado have joined forces to create “Carry On,” a full-length, multimedia performance ...

For the second year running, the Boulder Chamber Orchestra (BCO) will reveal a young soloist at their New Year’s Eve concert. Last year it...

It’s a gray morning in Boulder — the fourth or fifth in a row — in mid May. It’s cold, but in a revitalizing...

The last time J.S. Ondara was in Colorado, he opened for Lindsey Buckingham, of Fleetwood Mac fame, finding himself not only in the middle...

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 ...

“There is a crack in everything. That’s how the light gets in...

Darker Circles, The Sadies’ latest work, is appropriately titled. The album is as cyclical as it is dark. Guitar chords and drum riffs allude to previous tracks constantly, building a solid and steady album that concludes beautifully...

Around the same time Robert Johnson was emerging from the crossroads with his newfound guitar-picking skills, wailing about how all his love was in vain, blues music was going through a transformation of its own. The genre was spreading from its humble beginnings on ...

Leigh Holman, director of the University of Colorado Eklund Opera Theater, has made Boulder a mecca for composers. Every June for the past 10 years,...

For the 40 years AEG Live Rocky Mountains President and CEO Chuck Morris has worked the Colorado music scene, he has had a crucial hand in implementing nearly every fixture of that scene we now take for granted. Tulagi back in the day? Red Rocks? The Fillmore? Thank...

After eight years in the Americana band Boulder Acoustic Society, multi-instrumentalist Aaron Keim has picked up on a fundamental truth of aging...