Music
Nine Inch Nails
Monday and Tuesday, July 21-22: Nine Inch Nails Live at Red Rocks Amphitheater. 7 p.m. 18300 W. Alameda Parkway, Morrison. After a hiatus from 2009-2013, industrial rock pioneers Nine Inch Nails came back in the fall of last year with its eighth album release, ...
Christmas music through the centuries
Tired yet of “Frosty,” “White Christmas” and “Jingle Bells...
Bringing joy
Early in their 12-year career, the Infamous Stringdusters had a mission that was plenty ambitious.
“Originally, our goals were almost strictly musical, I think, being...
Review: Technicolor Tone Factory with Tauk and Aspen Hourglass
Progressive rock was the theme of the night at the Fox Theatre on Friday, Feb. 7. Three groups each played their own version of the genre. Garage band Aspen Hourglass from Fort Collins opened up with a bang to get the crowd ready for a loud night. The trio consisting...
A Pandora’s box of rock ‘n’ roll
Near-fatal car crashes, naked arm wrestling, runaway girlfriends and drummers, and even the unfortunate deaths of two dear friends. That’s the short story of Ego Vs Id’s debut album, Taste (Abattoir Records), recorded next to a strip club in Boulder over the past two...
Black Mountain don’t surf
Soundtrack albums are usually little more than cheerfully anachronistic artifacts of the unholy alliance between Big Film and Big Music — the major labels used to use them as a roll-of-the-dice jet pack for their prospect acts, hoping that a box-office smash would ...
‘Best of’ lists are for insecure losers
Comedy legend Mitch Hedberg once cracked that Pringles’ original intention, given the weird tubes the snack comes in, was to sell tennis balls. But when trucks filled with potatoes showed up at the factory, the people in charge of the operation cried, “Fuck it, cut ’...
Astroland offers Boulder a DIY space
The first trick is just trying to find the place. No bright marquee calls attention to the location of Boulder’s Astroland; rather, a single dim light hangs outside the darkened, tucked-away North Boulder warehouse.Astroland opened January 1, 2010, but the concept of...
Decemberists inspire awe at Boulder Theater
Despite their baroque, anti-war, liberal, Portlandian, eastern-European, Shakespearian, English romantic influences, The Decemberists are, at heart, an American band. Something about hating Los Angeles and longing for the life of an expatriate speaks to our national ...
Grammy nominees take the stage
The Takács Quartet has such a long and distinguished history, has performed and recorded so much music, that it is surprising to learn there...
The pleasures of being a professional innovator
Warren Haynes is hardly an unknown quantity. The last two decades he’s gotten around enough to take over for Verizon’s “Can you hear me now?” guy. Playing with the Allman Brothers, Gov’t Mule and the post-Jerry Garcia Dead, Haynes has established him- self as one of ...
