Music
Feeding the world
"How do you like your latte?” Andrew Love asks from across the kitchen island as I settle into a plush couch just a few...
Grass, no jam
Dobroist Justin Konrad describes standing onstage at the 2019 Telluride Bluegrass Festival for the first time as a “surreal experience.” Boulder’s Bowregard had entered...
Things with wings
The narrative goes something like this: You have your whole life to prepare for your first album, and usually less than a year to prepare for your second...
Cowboys are coming to town
Forget Santa and reindeers, Cowboy Christmas is riding into town. On Monday, Nov. 30, legendary country singer and songwriter Michael Martin Murphey is bringing what he calls the “only legitimate American Christmas” concert to eTown Hall...
Honing the narrative craft
In light of the spate of music biopics and memoirs that have come out recently, anyone expecting lots of hot dishing when they crack...
Rare pleasures
It’s not often you can hear a piece by Beethoven that almost no one else has ever heard...
Le lion en automne
While the ravishes of time have recently silenced many of the genre’s great voices, including a few of his own friends, the seminal fusion...
The beautiful madness of Shovels & Rope
Michael Trent and Cary Ann Hearst, the husband and wife duo behind folk-rock outfit Shovels & Rope, were on their way to play Codfish...
Wood Brothers
The Wood Brothers’ new LP, suggestively titled One Drop of Truth¸ starts its program with a simple acoustic guitar bounce, a bluesy, sundance-in-the-field filigree...
Hip-hop, exported and imported
What bothers Canadian rapper-singer k-os the most is artist fraud. The artist who projects one image in the music but lives an entirely different one...
Drum and bass and metal is massive
Pendulum is, in one UK-inflected word, massive. So massive that the rock-electro hybrid, consisting of three core members and three touring live musicians, will spend nearly every day of February splitting up across the globe to facilitate heavy-hitting live shows in...