Music

Yonnas Abraham, backbone and spirit of Denver hip-hop band The Pirate Signal, is starting over yet again. Over the years, his band has lost and gained members, had masters of an entire album stolen by a former collaborator, moved to New York City only to move back to...

For Dustin Payseur, changing the sound of Beach Fossils wasn’t a matter of abandoning what had come before. Rather, the frontman of the Brooklyn indie-rock...

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 ...

Colorado is well known for its folksy bluegrass scene. Bands like Leftover Salmon, The String Cheese Incident and Yonder Mountain String Band sell out shows all along the Front Range, and Colorado is also home to the yearly, highly-successful RockyGrass festival that...

 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...

Say what you will about Americans, but when faced with a tangible, non-partisan threat, we band together, set aside our differences and support each other. When facing Mother Nature, we have each other’s backs...

Early in their 12-year career, the Infamous Stringdusters had a mission that was plenty ambitious. “Originally, our goals were almost strictly musical, I think, being...

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...

When it came time for singer-songwriter-guitarist William Fitzsimmons to start work on his newest project, Lions — which released in February — it felt like a personal and professional reboot...

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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 ...

What’s in Boulder’s headphones this week? Bluegrass breakout Billy Strings falls from the top spot in our weekly round-up of bestsellers from Paradise Found...