Music

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

It might be a shame that Pretty Lights hasn’t enjoyed the same self-congratulatory media coverage given to fellow Colorado acts (cough, 3Oh!3, ahem) with a vapid “Look, they’re from Colorado!” type of praise. It would only be a shame if producer Derek Smith ever ...

  You might be surprised that Lyons, best known as a national center for folk and bluegrass with its RockyGrass and Rocky Mt. Folk festivals, the RockyGrass Academy and dozens of other events through the year, has now become the home of a classical chamber music ...

When the Return to Forever reunion tour came to the Paramount Theatre three years ago, one was struck by the dual emotions shown by the band’s devotees. You saw elation that the fusion powerhouse group, formed and piloted by keyboardist Chick Corea in 1972, had ...

In a lot of ways, being in a band is like being in a marriage. There is an ebb and flow to bands that stay together for long periods of time — the members grow apart and come back together, finding ways to compromise over ever-evolving influences and ideas. And ...

Photos by Jules Keuffer. To read P.J. Nutting's interview with Slug, click here...

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 ...

Global Dance Festival has survived a long history of setbacks. Whether it was Paul Van Dyk’s food poisoning or a national initiative against rave culture (the RAVE act, as championed by Joe Biden), what was once known as Rave on the Rocks has persevered and evolved ...

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

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 ...

What Paul Simon is to Vampire Weekend, The Beatles are to The Young Veins. On their debut Take A Vacation! the band serves as a throwback machine that incessantly pumps out song after song of fun and catchy retro-pop in the same — well — vein of the music that made ...

Staying the same for almost 30 years has it benefits, explains Yo La Tengo helmsman Ira Kaplan, but it’s also OK to shuffle the deck once in a while...