Music

Perhaps Stuart Braithwaite speaks for all musicians when he reveals the secret to Mogwai’s longevity: “Probably fear of regular employment,” he says, his Scottish accent...

It’s difficult to observe the current state of the world and not feel some level of frustration, disappointment and maybe even a little bit...

As quickly as the subgenres of electronic music become tagged and assimilated and commonly negotiated — trance, drone, dubstep, ambient, et al. — Robert Henke smears the palette and bleeds each into the others. The archetypal pioneer, plowing directly into the ...

Shifting gears” is one of those colloquialisms that, once hatched as an automotive term, has slithered its way into the irretrievably tainted waters of...

The story of Ímar — the traditional Irish music group, not the ninth-century Viking king the band is named after — starts, unsurprisingly, in...

Photos by Dane Cronin...

Conductor Bahman Saless and the Boulder Chamber Orchestra (BCO) have a couple of holiday traditions. Every year they honor the December holidays as ecumenically as...

He sits alone by the window of The Laughing Goat. A laptop, lunch and red wine are in front of him and conversation with another table happens to his left...

The sun is shining the day I talk to Stevie Jackson, lead guitarist for the Scottish indie-pop band Belle and Sebastian. “It rains a...

America, it’s been said, has entered a new era of racism, one with no racists. We live in a time, in a nation, where...

Eh, I’ll ignore that,” says Paul Bassis, casting off a cellphone call halfway through a lengthy conversation about the Arise Festival with Boulder Weekly last week. One of those if-it’s-important-they’ll-call-back moments; whoever it was, we presume they did...

Rusty Anderson has been an unsung hero of popular alternative music in the last 20 years. He’s been Paul McCartney’s right hand man and lead guitarist since 2001. He’s worked with Willie Nelson, Elton John and Regina Spektor. He even contributed the now-famous guitar...