Music
The guitar ninja comes but once a year
Trace Bundy did not have the typical rock star trajectory to fame. He followed his passion for guitar from a parttime teaching job to being a full-time musician...
When rock is illegal
Land of the free, sure, but every once in a great while, there will be a story in local and national media that details an American artist’s struggle against censorship. If an artist is in fact fined or jailed, the general response of many Americans is pure outrage ...
South by Southwest: Pandemonium in Austin
Put tech nerds, gear expos, independent film buffs and musicians of every conceivable genre into a blender and press mix, pour the resulting slurry into the one city just tolerant enough to put up with it, and you get an approximation of what it’s like to be at South...
Liz Berube’s mountain road
Sometimes the best choices you can make are the ones that seem completely unplanned...
Some wolves do survive
The tour leg that swings Los Lobos through Boulder this weekend is something of a victory lap for the East Los Angeles-bred band. It comes just after their December release of Disconnected in New York City, a live chronicle recorded during a three-night stand at the ...
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...
RockyGrass returns to Lyons
Traditional bluegrass does not include any kind of electronic components or a modern-day drum kit, but its history throughout the United States and its improvisational nature has proven time and time again that bluegrass is one of the most complicated genres to ...
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...
CD review: Girl in a Coma, Exits & All the Rest
If you gave Girl in a Coma’s new CD, Exits & All The Rest to 10 different people, you’d likely receive in return 10 different opinions about which established female vocalist lead singer Nina Diaz most sounds like. Though by no means an exhaustive list, I could see ...
Found Sounds: Dec. 8, 2022
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...

















