Music
Bart’s is back
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...
Gunning for a Grammy
When G. Love approached his friend and musical colleague Keb’ Mo’ about producing the album that became The Juice, one of his goals was...
Parlando School of Musical Arts brings pop music to Pearl Street
Parlando is an Italian word meaning “to speak” — and the voices behind Boulder’s Parlando School of Musical Arts ring out loud and clear....
Progress via antiquity
During the 2011 Communikey Festival, a few hundred local hipsters packed the obscure and highly under-used Odd Fellows Hall on Pearl Street to see why Dark Dark Dark — a poignant Minneapolis-based indie-pop and chamber-folk group that plays old-world instruments — ...
B.o.B., Lupe Fiasco rock Denver’s Ogden Theater
The Laser Tour Denver show sold out about three weeks ago. With a tour that features B.o.B. who has the No. 1 hit in the country with “Nothin’ On You,” and headliner Lupe Fiasco who has two superb albums under his belt, the question comes to mind, who really sold out...
RockyGrass returns to Lyons
Traditional bluegrass does not include any kind of electronic components or a modern-day drum kit, but its history throughout the United States and its improvisational nature has proven time and time again that bluegrass is one of the most complicated genres to ...
The tribal music of our time
Anthropologists debate the exact reason why humans created music — Darwin believed music was produced as sexual enticement; others say it was a way to strengthen the bonds of a community...
Return of CMF mini-festival and former director
Fans of Brahms’s warm Romanticism (and who in the classical audience isn’t?) have much to look forward to.
In three concerts, the Colorado Music Festival...
A constant kick in the ass
With a studio album, For All Kings, having arrived last year, Anthrax is following up a fall tour opening for Slayer with a current...
The narrative of music
The Boulder Philharmonic’s 2015–16 season is titled “Reflections: The Spirit of Boulder,” but the orchestra will open the season by telling stories...
Boulder’s Summa: Balancing the rock equation
Jake O’Neal, the front man of local indie rock outfit Summa, is neither left-brained nor right-brained. He’s both a falsetto-wielding singer-songwriter who pens lyrics charged with emotion and an electrical engineer who graduated summa cum laude from CU-Boulder last ...
Yonder Mountain String Band rings in another new year
How many roads must a band drive down before you can call them a band...


















