Music
The ’dudes are back in town
A year and a half ago, we had a chance to chat with John Magnie and Steve Amedee to get a little background on their work with singer/songwriter Rebecca Folsom, who was just getting ready to release her new album Reunion. During the course of that conversation, we ...
Award success
Chris Pandolfi’s timing was a year off. The banjo player for the Infamous Stringdusters intently watched last year’s Grammys hoping for some recognition of the band’s self-titled release. When the time came and went, so did Pandolfi’s attention span toward the Grammy...
The peacocks are OK
I caught up with Marco Benevento a few days after that freak(ish) March blizzard — bearing the elegant moniker of Winter Storm Stella, and by...
Bike underpass echoes
There are probably few choir groups that have ever performed with such emotion that they evoked tears from their audience, but in December 2010, caroler Debbie Giallombardo remembers a woman almost brought to tears by what she was singing on the Pearl Street Mall...
Cue the strings
With a career-long embrace of unlikely instruments like the theremin, sousaphone and bouzouki, Colorado folk outfit DeVotchKa has never been the sort of rock...
World music artist Chris Berry goes digital
Ten years ago, musician Chris Berry found himself narrowly escaping death in Zimbabwe. He was the lead singer of the massively popular Zimbabwean band Panjea and was trying to figure out a way to break the band in the United States. That is until Zimbabwean president...
‘Worth the wait’
Of the many local performing arts heartaches stemming from the pandemic lockdown, few in the classical world stung quite like the cancellation of Gustav...
This bird has flown
The wooden birds on the cover of violinist K. Ishibashi’s new album, Omoiyari, hold a tiny sliver of Colorado history — tiny, but powerful.
You...
How the ‘grass’ grew
When Sam Bush takes the Boulder Theater stage on Feb. 20, he will be coming back to his musical second home. With the groundbreaking...
Burning houses, debauchery and acid
It approaches the realm of impossibility to describe the sound that emanates from the band The Growlers. The amalgamation of genres sounds as though it shouldn’t exist: a combination of mellow reverb-filled surf rock, garage band guitar, country-folk and gypsy ...
‘No rules’
It was a particularly shreddy lick in the Power Rangers theme song that made Paul DeHaven want to play guitar.
“I was like, ‘Mom, I...


















