Music

"You can make changes. Thus, you can change the world. Right?” It’s a bit of wisdom Mark Oliver Everett, who largely goes by the...

Pro Musica Colorado, the professional chamber orchestra directed by Cynthia Katsarelis, has told us “Stories” and taken us on “Journeys” in their past seasons. But there is no theme for 2014–15. “Sometimes in classical music, when you’re putting together beautiful ...

Brian Finn reminisces on 60 years of good food and hoedowns at the Gold Hill

Glenn Kotche is supposed to be on a plane headed to rehearsals when we catch up by phone. But he’s back at home after...

People often describe Arooj Aftab’s music as mystical or meditative, both terms the singer, composer and producer resists. She finds it all a bit...

A playlist of new(ish) songs with experimental leanings. ‘Black Treasure,’ by Zara McFarlane British jazz singer Zara McFarlane explores her Jamaican heritage in this pulsating...

I don't own a single John Mayer CD or even a single single...

Someone once said that the relative dearth of blues musicians around here is actually a weather thing; who can sing the blues under 300 annual days of sunshine...

Roger Sellers is at his parents’ house in Houston when he answers my call. He’s back stateside after a whirlwind run of dates in...

Steve Conn is one of those serial Boulderites. The legendary musician has moved to town, left Boulder, regretted it and then returned … repeatedly.  “I...

Earlier today, jam band icons Widespread Panic announced two dates at the Pepsi Center on Dec. 30 and Dec. 31. G. Love and Special Sauce open...

When I was a 12-year-old aspiring musician and daydreamer, music flowed through my mind like heroin in William Burroughs’ blood. I wanted to play hard and crazy like the metal bands I idolized. My dad’s friend loaned me a nice Yamaha acoustic guitar, and I rigged it ...