Music
Violinist Sarah Chang is back where it all started
Sarah Chang is happy to be back in Boulder...
Roots revival
At age 58, dobro wizard Jerry Douglas has played on more albums than most people own. The number stands north of 1,600 and counting, having backed up everyone from Ray Charles to Eric Clapton to Dolly Parton to Elvis Costello. And that’s in addition to his 13 solo ...
Alabama memories
You might say Jason Isbell’s third studio album Here We Rest began at his grandparents’ house in Alabama. It’s there that he first learned his love of music, and it’s to that area that he returned to recharge his batteries. It’s reflected in the album’s quiet, oft ...
The Infamous Stringdusters raise flood relief money for and with The...
To name them by genre, The Infamous Stringdusters are a bluegrass five-piece. But Stringdusters manager Michael Allenby prefers other descriptors. Tongue in cheek, he sometimes calls them a high-country band. But at their core, Allenby says, the Infamous ...
SLIDESHOW: Cut Copy and Washed Out at the Ogden Theatre, Oct....
Boulder Weekly's Jules Kueffer was at the Cut Copy show at the Ogden Theatre on Oct. 4. Enjoy a slideshow from the night's events.
Living la vida viral
The day started with a press release chirping gleefully in our inbox that OK Go’s new video for “White Knuckles” was in its last hours of labor and heading for its cyber C-section...
The rebel we need
About a year ago, Tash Sultana had to press pause — the world was eating them alive, consuming the young Australian multi-instrumentalist’s talent as...
Voices of a generation
Denver singer Marnie Ward’s grandfather fought in World War II. Her father fought in Vietnam. She wasn’t a military kid per se, but that family history did instill in Ward an appreciation for the sacrifices service members make...
Looking in from the Pharcyde
Name a group that released a debut album so potent it sustained interest in the group, with relatively modest help from from subsequent albums, for decades...
A side of rockers, a side of ballads
The Gasoline Lollipops are notoriously difficult to categorize; swimming somewhere between folk, alt-country and punk, the band has taken to shrugging their shoulders as...
Boulder’s Summa: Balancing the rock equation
Jake O’Neal, the front man of local indie rock outfit Summa, is neither left-brained nor right-brained. He’s both a falsetto-wielding singer-songwriter who pens lyrics charged with emotion and an electrical engineer who graduated summa cum laude from CU-Boulder last ...
