Music
Don’t call them rappers
With its first major label release, 2008’s Remind Me in 3 Days, The Knux immediately got touted as one of the most innovative and different-sounding new acts in hip-hop...
Frozen Dead Guy Days rises again
With the help of a beloved dead body, the town of Nederland will awaken once again from its cold slumber for the 12th annual Frozen Dead Guy Days...
BIFF 2013: A tale of hope and defiance during the Holocaust
When Czech conductor Rafael Schächter was imprisoned in the Terezin concentration camp during World War II, one of the musical scores he brought with him was Giuseppe Verdi’s Requiem...
Animal lover
There is some glory, although not much, in being informally regarded as the greatest sideman guitarist of the last 40 years.
But in the case...
A glimpse at a Cuban musical legacy
A regal-looking woman wearing a flowing, multicolored dress strolls down a narrow street in Havana, Cuba, casually gesturing with her hands as a tune escapes her lips. She’s singing to nobody and everybody at the same time. As if on cue, a passerby recognizes the ...
Trace Bundy does ESPN, but don’t call it a jingle
It may be the most recognized last six notes amongst all of TV theme shows — the punctuating triplets (DUD duh DUH … DUH DUH DUH) that close the ESPN SportsCenter theme song. OK, that’s a pretty weird superlative, and no, it doesn’t translate well to the printed page...
Something Underground
Saturday, March 22: Something Underground. 8 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont 720- 297-6397...
In the thick of transition
People from around the world know the Curtis Institute of Music is highly selective. With just a 4.8 percent admission rate, Curtis only grants...
Todd Snider’s bipolar spring
Our rationale goes something like this: Hey, The New York Times, Rolling Stone and USA Today have already lauded Todd Snider’s Agnostic Hymns & Stoner Fables, the songwriter’s none-too-subtle screed against the current trickledown angst consuming an American public ...
Great American Taxi goes big
To hear Vince Herman tell it, Great American Taxi’s second CD, that ever-dreaded sophomore effort thing, found itself looped out in the exhausted vagaries of a dysfunctional post-millennial record business. Just when people are getting back into actually making ...
A haircut in four parts
Though the group and the event started in the same year (1948), Allan Barker, director of the Boulder Timberliners isn’t sure who the longest-running participant in the Barbershop Harmony Festival at Chautauqua is...
