Music

Striking a chord

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To Trevor Terndrup, creativity is a use-it-or-lose-it sort of gift, which helps explain why less than 11 months after the release of Let the...

Tragic trajectory

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UPDATE: Tonight's Ra Ra Riot show has been cancelled. Click the link for more info...

Cross-cultural celebration

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Lee Shainis’ office at Intercambio Uniting Communities is draped in the garb of many cultures. The walls house Ghanaian traditional attire, a Costa Rican embroidered vest, a gifted painting from Venezuela and even his own multicolored abstract piece. The footprints ...

Liz Berube’s mountain road

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Sometimes the best choices you can make are the ones that seem completely unplanned...

The Two Man Gentleman Band are farce done well

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When I initially received a disc of Live in New York! by The Two Man Gentlemen Band, I had severe reservations. Novelty music is the slipperiest slope a group can climb. When it’s good it’s as funny as the greatest standup comics, but when it’s bad it’s more annoying...

The mad scientist

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By day, Jake Sheppard is a Boulder-based scientist, studying how the immune system interacts with cancer, using gene-editing software to explore how cancer cells change when certain genes are repressed...

Mixing it up

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For Dustin Payseur, changing the sound of Beach Fossils wasn’t a matter of abandoning what had come before. Rather, the frontman of the Brooklyn indie-rock...

A common theme

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Listening to a young band can be as fun as opening the door of an outhouse. Unfocused songwriting and lackluster instrumentation, spoon-fed by the blind adoration of equally young, equally uninformed fans, can make for an unpleasant experience, to put it mildy...

Lindsey Saunders

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Friday, March 21: Lindsey Saunders & Her Band. 7:30 p.m. Cannon Mine Coffee, 210 S. Public Road, Lafayette, 303-665-0625...

More than cursory

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"You can find music to be cathartic if you’re willing to be honest with it,” says Andy Baxter, lyricist and one half of the...

From the schoolyard to the stage

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Phrases like “head start” or “early jump” fail to adequately capture the story behind The Big Motif. After all, the seasoned Denver trio average less than 20 years of age among them, yet they’ve been playing together since 2005...

Photo Essay: Yonder Mountain String Band at Red Rocks

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Yonder Mountain String Band played an energetic, lively set at Red Rocks Amphitheatre on Saturday, Aug. 20. Check out photos from the concert.