Music

The occasionally menacing, sometimes uplifting, often minimalistic but never pretentious rock...

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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...

Blues to make you dance

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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 ...

Angular music

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The Boulder Philharmonic’s season finale concert has more unusual angles than a geometry textbook. And fortunately for Boulder’s classical music audiences, they are all positive...

Focusing the sound

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

JAMfest, featuring high school musicians and the Flobots’ Jonny Five, a...

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Fresh air, a cool breeze, and decent turnout made Friday’s inaugural outdoor JAMfest, held at Fairview High School, a smashing success. Featuring performances from a plethora of high school musicians, the event, which helped raise money for disaster relief program ...

Time is the key

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A mere four days before chatting over transatlantic phone lines with Jean-Michel Jarre, the French electronics master played a show at the iconic site known...

Rebound band

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The demise of Nate Cook’s old band, local favorites Ego Vs Id, did little to derail the 25-year-old’s musical momentum...

Gazing into the future

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When a once-great band decides to give it another go after years of inactivity, the news is often met with a mixture of exhilaration...

‘Fantastique’ opening

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Boulder’s Colorado Music Festival (CMF) opens its 2016 season June 30 at Chautauqua Auditorium, and no one is more excited than music director Jean-Marie...

10-town travel

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When faced with the bleak prospect of a grueling tour in support of her 2009 album, Wilson St., Austin, Texas, singer-songwriter Charlie Faye had an idea. Instead of 100 shows in 200 days, why not experiment? How about 10 one-month residencies in 10 towns across ...

Boulder’s Savoy unveils long-awaited debut CD

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Savoy has been in existence, in a sense, ever since its three members moved into Williams Village together as dorm-mates, long before they were able to think of a band name or open up a laptop on stage. Producers Ben Eberdt, Gray Smith and percussionist Mike Kelly ...

The joys of heavy lifting

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It could well be that Nautical Mile’s EP release at the Fox Theatre this weekend represents a watershed moment — the young band’s second release, headlining a premiere venue among well-regarded local bands, secure in its lineup and coasting on a decent club following...