Music
Balancing act
Sometimes I forget I’m heavily tattooed,” singer Lola Black says. “Every now and then I’ll walk by a mirror and think, ‘Oh wow, that’s quite a bit.’ I don’t realize I have that many...
Heavy Rotation
“SULA (Paperback),” Jamila Woods
For her most recent release, LEGACY! LEGACY!, Chicago R&B artist Jamila Woods highlights artists of color who have inspired her: Zora...
Beethoven’s Path to the Future opens CMF
The Colorado Music Festival (CMF) opens its 2019 season Thursday, June 27 with Beethoven’s Overture to Egmont, followed by a series of works that...
Yonder Mountain String Band rings in another new year
How many roads must a band drive down before you can call them a band...
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 — ...
REVIEW: Bassnectar at Red Rocks
Bassnectar is exactly that — a sweet distillation of low-frequency pollens, collected from the flowers of many sizes and colors. And just like the name implies, the crystalline sugar that results from all that busy-bee gathering is always the king of the show. Seeing...
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...
Top 10 albums of 2016
The year in music of 2016 seems likely to be remembered for its major losses. This was a year when we lost artists who...
Cracking wise
You might call them “culture warriors,” though you won’t find them armed with Bibles and picket signs. They’re not even that angry...
Esther Sparks & the Whiskey Remedy
Saturday, January 18: Esther Sparks & the Whiskey Remedy. 10 p.m. Jamestown Mercantile, 108 Main St.,Jamestown, 303-442-5847...
The birth of Technicolor Tone Factory
On any given night in Boulder, you can find DJ sets and the sounds of electronica leaking out the doors of bars around town. For musicians in their early 20s, the peer pressure and demand to go digital is enormous, and that’s exactly why the persistent militia of ...
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...
