Music

Mason Reed falls prey to his own pretension

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The most on-target aspect of hippie-blues rocker Mason Reed’s latest EP, You Can’t Come Back From Heaven, is the CD packaging. The cover features a slightly dazed Reed looking resolutely through his aviators and out the windshield of a blurry automobile. Sun-...

Boulder’s Summa: Balancing the rock equation

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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 ...

No fussing and fighting for the Wailers

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Is this the loss of creativity we can expect when the dope heads get their way...

Canuck crooners Jepsen and Bieber tour together

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Carly Rae Jepsen admitted that she felt a little uneasy when she stepped on stage for her first night opening for Justin Bieber on that teen star’s fall arena tour. It was, after all, her first time performing in such a large venue...

Contests part of RockyGrass tradition

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Through a bluegrass career spanning nearly four decades, Tim O’Brien has played on many stages and with numerous players, but RockyGrass holds a special place in his heart. Hell, he’s performed there 28 times, which is why organizers asked him to fill the final slot ...

SLIDESHOW: Former Grateful Dead drummer Mickey Hart signs autographs in Boulder

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Former Grateful Dead drummer Mickey Hart met with and greeted fans at PosterScene on Friday, Dec. 9. Check out Susan France's photos of the event below, and read Boulder Weekly's feature on Hart here.

A taste of the world’s music at CU

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If you are a fan of West African Highlife, that most infectious of world music styles, you could travel to Accra, Lagos or Yaounde. Or you could walk over to Grusin Music Hall on the University of Colorado Boulder campus...

More than music

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When you find yourself at a music festival in most places, chances are you’re looking at the stage. But if that festival is in Colorado, you might be spending as much time looking at the scenery, and that’s just fine. At least that’s how Arise Music Festival producer...

In the belly of the beast

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There`s a bit of peril involved in mining this meme too deeply, but as Noah and the Whale slide a little awkwardly out of their charmingly twee folkie-pop dungarees into shinier, smooth-surface synth-pop threads, it may not be much of a surprise that their third long...

Picture this

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Coming out of the pandemic, Graham Nash is making a splash as COVID numbers come down and venues continue to open up.  And while music...

Spring Creek comes down the mountain for gig

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It's been a long climb for Spring Creek, the first Coloradans ever signed by the blue-chip bluegrass label Rebel Records, and the first band ever to win both the Telluride and the RockyGrass festivals back to back. The band's fast-ascending status lives up to their ...

Building blocks of sound

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 Back in 2003, drummer Danny Seim was abusing employee perks at a Portland, Ore., Kinko’s. Using the store’s photocopiers, Seim produced copy after copy of the handmade flipbook he designed as packaging for his band Menomena’s debut album I Am The Blame Fun Monster. ...