Music
Changing signals
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...
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...
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...
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...
Out with a flash for Boulder Outlook
The Boulder Outlook Hotel has won the Blues Foundation’s 2013 Keeping the Blues Alive award for a club — the only recipient in a nationwide contest. It’s bittersweet news, since by 2014, the hotel will most likely be demolished and converted into student housing...
’Tis the seasons
The next performance of the Boulder Chamber Orchestra (BCO) will transport listeners to 18th-century Venice and 20th-century Buenos Aires, and several points in between...
Eminence Ensemble works hard for the music
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 ...
Boulder bluegrass icon Hot Rize returns to roots
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
Focus puller
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...
