Music
Another color in the crayon box
From coming out as a lesbian to her political activism to talking openly about her breast cancer diagnosis, Melissa Etheridge isn’t shy to tell the world about her personal problems. Honesty is the only way, she says. But she wasn’t always this way. Openness was her ...
Queens of the Stone Age reissue landmark album
Rated R put Queens of the Stone Age on the rock map as a force to be reckoned with in 2000. Led by singer-guitarist-songwriter Josh Homme and bassist Nick Oliveri, both of influential stoner-metal band Kyuss, Queens of the Stone Age went on to produce some of the ...
New sensations
Let’s get this out of the way right off the bat.
We have absolutely no grudge against Montana. Beautiful place — postcard-y mountain ranges, limitless...
A night of furious chops: Two high-octane axe-grinders rock Boulder Theater
You can’t help but wonder about the mechanics at work when Robben Ford and Larry Carlton work a stage together. Both are monster players with a deep bag of tricks. Carlton has turned an insanely successful ’70s studio career into a jazz and jazz/rock career of ...
Revenge therapy
The latest offering from Plasma Canvas kicks off with a slow burn. “Hymn,” the opening track on the Fort Collins quartet’s new album DUSK,...
Looking back to look ahead
Whether Eric Earley is writing about it or talking about it, any discussion of the music he makes for Blitzen Trapper presents an uneasy exercise. He states an answer then verbally erases it — a songwriter uncertain of how to objectively speak of his craft. Earley ...
Elyse Miller surprises with ‘Paperdoll’
Paperdoll, Fort Collins singer-songwriter Elyse Miller’s debut effort, is an unusual entry in the seemingly endless catalog of soft, somewhat sardonic music made by acoustic guitar-wielding musicians so ubiquitous in our nation’s coffee shops and open mics...
Steve Hackett’s day job
Even among its most ardently faithful adherents, there’s little dispute that the glory days of progressive rock — at least relative to its commercial...
Dead Floyd stitches together the best of both worlds
If you’re among those who have never heard of Dead Floyd, a very innovative and very talented double tribute band, you might be asking: Huh? Whatizzit? An homage to Pink Floyd, the original psychedelic arena prog-rockers or devotees of the Grateful Dead, ...
Starting over in Nashville
Sometimes you’ve just gotta get over yourself, occasionally at the suggestion of your manager. That’s what happened to Dan Layus as he was working...
