Music

Let’s get this out of the way right off the bat. We have absolutely no grudge against Montana. Beautiful place — postcard-y mountain ranges, limitless...

It’d be difficult not to hear an echo of Fleet Foxes shaggy Northwestern Pacific folk-pop or Elliott Smith’s strummy melancholia in the delicate chamber-folk beauty of Blind Pilot’s second album, We Are the Tide. The Portland sextet’s September release is a dramatic ...

There’s a common misconception that Frank Zappa’s music was closer to Weird Al Yankovic’s than Beethoven’s, but those really in the know understand there’s more sophistication in Zappa’s body of work than one might imagine. Granted, with album titles like Burnt Weeny...

In the lead-up to her 2020 masterpiece A Small Death, Samantha Crain didn’t know if she’d be able to hold a guitar again. A...

Some of Boulder’s best musicians want to see you at the Dairy. That’s the punning implication of the new series CU@The Dairy, presented jointly by...

Programs featuring string quartets by sister and brother Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel (Jan. 12-13) and Felix Mendelssohn (May 3-4) will form the bookends of the...

Strolling down the main vendor concourse on Saturday, the middle day, of ARISE last year, we happened upon a guy who, like us, was...

Darryl Purpose isn’t used to failure. He’s recorded eight stunning albums of folk music, enjoys a close relationship with his daughter, owns two beautiful...

The suit jacket wasn’t gold lamé or anything garish like that — no offense, gold lamé; rock ‘n’ roll wouldn’t be the same without...

How Boulder birthed the band that launched a thousand bluegrass jams

I put as much energy and love into the craft as I possibly could,” says Seattle hip-hop MC Ben Haggardy, summarizing the last few years, “to redevelop a relationship I had lost with the art...

For Widespread Panic, it’s all about the flow...