Music
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 ...
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...
Friends Like These
Life days for is pretty good these Portugal. The Man, or at least it was pretty good when we caught bassist Zach Carothers on a rare evening off, rumbling down to the Alabama shore with a busload of homies for a sunset beach party with margaritas and shellfish. We ...
Fearsome gravitational pull
There is only one way to describe Big Gigantic’s success, and it doesn’t require a half-assed play on words. The duo’s highly anticipated show at the Fox Theatre, which sold out months ago nearly within a day, marks exactly two years since producer/saxophonist ...
‘Ya-Ka-May,’ Galactic’s latest, is a blast
Just like the album’s cover, Ya-Ka-May by the New Orleans band Galactic and released on...
More than music
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...
Beethoven’s Path to the Future opens CMF
The Colorado Music Festival (CMF) opens its 2019 season Thursday, June 27 with Beethoven’s Overture to Egmont, followed by a series of works that...
A taste of the world’s music at CU
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...
Mutual understanding
In June of 1989, a military coup, led by Omar al-Bashir, overtook the government in Sudan. Combined with widespread famine, the military violence in...
In the belly of the beast
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...
