Music

Once critics think they’ve got a band figured out, it can be a tough spell to break. Just ask Mt. Joy, the LA-based quintet...

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Though guitarist Mike Lee —  who founded the Boulder  band Chicha — was a late bloomer in terms of performing, his deep love of music dates back to his childhood in the Bay Area...

Sometime in 2016, Destroyer’s Dan Bejar found out that the original name for “The Wild  Ones,” a song from English rock band Suede’s 1994...

A playlist of new(ish) songs with experimental leanings. ‘Black Treasure,’ by Zara McFarlane British jazz singer Zara McFarlane explores her Jamaican heritage in this pulsating...

What’s in Boulder’s headphones this week? Bluegrass breakout Billy Strings falls from the top spot in our weekly round-up of bestsellers from Paradise Found...

  Sometimes, a band can tell when it’s making a hit song. That’s the story of Cobra Starship and “Good Girls Go Bad...

After more than a year of interviews and a handful of tantalizingly oblique online manifestos aligned with the mission of a shadowy group called The Starset Society, Dustin Bates, lead singer and concepteur behind the Columbus, Ohio-based quartet Starset, wants ...

One lesson Alexander Beggins says he and his musical partner in Wild Child, Kelsey Wilson, learned early in their careers was not to get...

“SULA (Paperback),” Jamila Woods  For her most recent release, LEGACY! LEGACY!, Chicago R&B artist Jamila Woods highlights artists of color who have inspired her: Zora...

Be ready for instant action when Reel Big Fish takes the stage — no matter where or when...

James McMurtry spends hundreds of hours in the van each year, traveling America’s highways to the 100-plus shows he and his band annually perform. The...