Music
Found Sounds: Dec. 19 (Holiday edition)
What do the holidays sound like to you? We posed this question to the hardworking staff at Paradise Found Records and Music, who responded...
Adventures in geography and gender
Two of Boulder’s choral groups will separately spend the weekend exploring geography and gender.
Happily, both programs will be given twice in the Boulder area....
CMF ends 2019 season Aug. 3 with Mahler’s Third Symphony
Music Director Peter Oundjian will conduct the final two weeks of the Colorado Music Festival 2019 season, with four orchestral concerts July 25–Aug. 3.
Oundjian’s...
Friends first, bandmates second
Watching Darlingside perform is reminiscent of seeing four college buddies — intellectual and talented as they are — hanging out, cracking jokes and making...
Record year
By the end of every year, I end up with a stack of new books about music so tall I end up needing more...
You can’t turn your back on the blues
Faces/Rolling Stones guitarist Ronnie Wood once said the blues is “part of the makeup of modern music. You can’t turn your back on the...
False ending
In 2020, Denver band FAIM hoped to take what they thought would be their final record to DIY venues all over the United States...
Demise of Dead band births Chicha
Though guitarist Mike Lee — who founded the Boulder band Chicha — was a late bloomer in terms of performing, his deep love of music dates back to his childhood in the Bay Area...
L.A. gains appeal
Death Cab for Cutie’s Ben Gibbard is all about change. The singer/guitarist, currently on tour with his bandmates in support of their seventh album, Codes and Keys, once wrote a driving, gritty, guitar-fueled pop tune about the ills of Los Angeles called “Why You’d...
Flogging Molly’s new live CD/DVD delivers
Homecoming. If you’re an American, the term immediately conjures images of football games on crisp autumn nights and awkward high school dances. Strip away the cultural connotations, however, and you’re left with the simple idea of returning home. For fans of Celtic-...
