Music
CMF opening weekend
The opening weekend of the Colorado Music Festival’s 40th anniversary season, Thursday, June 29 through Sunday, July 2, will set the pattern for the...
Twerking across the country
Brace yourself, the Twerk Tour is coming. But, have no fear, this is a twerk tour sans, well, twerking. Instead of that strange form of upside down shaking, or what some call dancing, this tour features the musical combination of two eclectic, funk jam bands: Twiddle...
‘Go back the way you came’
On the night before her band’s hotly anticipated reunion show last summer at Planet Bluegrass in Lyons, Elephant Revival co-founder Bonnie Paine dreamed about...
Top 10 albums of the decade
A serviceable definition I recently came across for the word “best” was “of the most excellent, effective, or desirable type or quality.” As a journalist, the job regularly includes the hopefully tasteful, relevant use of superlatives, but incorporating the word “...
‘Fantastique’ opening
Boulder’s Colorado Music Festival (CMF) opens its 2016 season June 30 at Chautauqua Auditorium, and no one is more excited than music director Jean-Marie...
Two Man Gentlemen Band get intimate at Oskar Blues
It’s rare to witness true music nerds performing. It’s even more rare to find music nerds who prefer hysterical swing and kazoos to intense sampling and laptops. That’s why people who are lucky enough to see the Two Man Gentlemen Band should know that the stars have ...
The many faces of Chree Bagheera
Chree Bagheera honed his obsession in the shadows. Music was present in his household growing up, but Bagheera’s family discouraged a career path in...
Swamp thing
Dustin Arbuckle’s year is still young, but if the guy at the recent New Brunswick, Canada, gig is any indicator, he may want to plan for longer set lists...
Big things for Big Gigantic
Local electronic hero and faithful ally to the saxophone Dominic Lalli was all smiles when Boulder Weekly caught up with him last week, and for good reason...
Neal Morse doesn’t apologize for easy listening
"I need to come out of the clouds every now and then,” Neal Morse says, apologizing for being immersed in writing, and calling into our...
Beth Orton is back at it
Beth Orton’s voice is the milky cloud of cream in your coffee gently dispersing like last light before the twilight. Her trilling coo is sweet and tender but also urgent and foreboding. Almost two decades ago, the U.K. songstress was the girl-of the-moment first ...
