Music
Reunited, and it feels so good
Kerry King, guitarist for iconic thrash metal band Slayer, has had a gloried career, from angry speed-metal outsider to controversy-provoking media target to grizzled guitar hero. Slayer formed in 1982, when King met Slayer guitarist Jeff Hanneman at an audition for ...
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...
Some unexpected charisma
The Boulder Chamber Orchestra (BCO) will launch its 11th season with a somber, almost mystical classical-era Requiem...
Building blocks of sound
Back in 2003, drummer Danny Seim was abusing employee perks at a Portland, Ore., Kinko’s. Using the store’s photocopiers, Seim produced copy after copy of the handmade flipbook he designed as packaging for his band Menomena’s debut album I Am The Blame Fun Monster. ...
For Brother Ali, it’s time to occupy
Brother Ali really didn’t need any more political cred, but...
Striking a chord
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...
Been away for too long
Before Soundgarden took the stage at Red Rocks Amphitheatre in July 2011, you could forgive the casual fan for wondering whether the band members were just the latest rock gods to pad their bank accounts with fan nostalgia...
Rite of passage
Cold War Kids singer/guitarist Nathan Willett feels his group has occupied a rather rare and enviable niche in the music world so far during...
‘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...
Book of rhymes
For the first decade of its existence, rap music was deemed a fad, another pop culture trend to soon fade like disco and pet rocks. After rap music defied the prediction of its demise, its musicality came into question. Was it real music? After selling billions ...
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...
