Music
Heavy Rotation
“Future Power Sources,” Marlowe
When Seattle beat-architect L’Orange teams up with North Carolina wordsmith Solemn Brigham, the result is loop-digging, old-school hip-hop in the vein...
Music, community and fire
Leftover Salmon’s Vince Herman found out about the Fourmile Canyon fire while touring — his Nederland house was in the evacuation zone, but didn’t burn — and since returning to Boulder, he has yet to survey the now-torched land...
Erykah Badu, Janelle Monae rock Denver’s Fillmore
Erykah Badu is just about a month into her Out My Mind, Just in Time Tour with rotating opening acts that so far have included N.E.R.D., Bilal, Lupe Fiasco, B.O.B. and Maxwell. But for most of the tour, including the Denver show at the Fillmore Auditorium on June 16...
Rap with strings attached
I haven’t done the research on this, but I don’t imagine Vivaldi’s “Spring” concerto is the ringback song on your average rapper’s cell phone.But call Jordan Polovina and you’ll see pretty quickly why he and the rest of Whiskey Blanket are not your average rappers....
Conscious Alliance, Elephant Revival come together to inaugurate the Buffalo Heart...
When the Link Center Foundation (LCF) decided to close its doors in 2009, many of the board members were left with heavy hearts...
Wish We Were Floyd bring Pink Floyd classics back to life
Maybe it’s an occupational hazard, but it can be a little...
Still playing folk guitar
If Stephen Stills isn’t doing cartwheels across the stage and jumping off of amplifiers this summer on his tour with Crosby, Stills & Nash, he’ll have a good excuse...
The ‘Fifth’ for the 10th
Bahman Saless, the conductor of the Boulder Chamber Orchestra, is usually an optimistic, can-do guy. That’s how he built the BCO from scratch in the past 10 years...
Letting go of balance
It started in a Guitar Center in Long Beach, California, where one half of the acoustic rock band This Wild Life met the other. Kevin...
Electronic musician Pretty Lights: Mapping the sun
Right now, electronic music is more than a trend. It’s a tidal wave. Stars like Tiesto, Skrillex and David Guetta are filling arenas, and according to multiple media reports, cashing checks totaling tens of millions each year...
Experience music, and glimpse culture from a world away
The University of Colorado College of Music won’t quite take you around the world in 80 minutes, but in one concert of that length, they can take you into musical cultures from the other side of the globe...
Phone down, eyes up, hearts open
Goose’s Peter Anspach on the raw magic of improvisational live music
