Music

Completing an album can be like a life passage, closing one chapter and opening another. The third chapter in Sharon Van Etten’s recorded history, Tramp’s a haunting record that pushes out beyond the minimalist, emotionally raw folk of Van Etten’s first two albums. ...

Late last year, sometime in October, Rod Argent got a call from Billboard. The Zombies’ new album, Still Got That Hunger, had debuted at...

We had made the mistaken assumption that our inability to get Eminence Ensemble drummer Tanner Bardin by phone last Tuesday, bouncing off a full-and-not-accepting voicemail box, was a ski-hooky thing. Bardin is a Summit County-bred skier — the fast board kind — and ...

With a studio album, For All Kings, having arrived last year, Anthrax is following up a fall tour opening for Slayer with a current...

Homecoming. If you’re an American, the term immediately conjures images of football games on crisp autumn nights and awkward high school dances. Strip away the cultural connotations, however, and you’re left with the simple idea of returning home. For fans of Celtic-...

What is it about Republican presidential candidates and their inability to choose a proper campaign song? It’s as if conservative ears have a special filter that only allows the words of an ironic chorus to make it into the candidate’s head while stripping out a song...

The Boulder Philharmonic’s 2015–16 season is titled “Reflections: The Spirit of Boulder,” but the orchestra will open the season by telling stories...

If there’s a “Colorado sound,” it might be the soft babble of a mountain stream as it trickles through grass and boulders on its way to the St. Vrain or the Gunnison or the Green. The wind whispers through trees as larks call to each other and deer graze quietly. ...

With the release of their third studio album Southern Rock Opera in 2001, the Drive-By Truckers finally emerged from local alt-country favorites to national critical darlings. The sprawling, hard-charging, 94-minute epic masterpiece somehow weaves the band’s personal...

A mere four days before chatting over transatlantic phone lines with Jean-Michel Jarre, the French electronics master played a show at the iconic site known...

Peter Oundjian is the most distinguished musician to lead the Colorado Music Festival (CMF) in its 43 seasons. Since Jean-Marie Zeitouni stepped down as music...

 Waves of change rattled the record store community in Boulder when Bart’s CD Cellar and Record Shop closed its doors this past Valentine’s Day...