Music

When Kristina Murray first started performing her country/Americana songs around Boulder County, there simply weren’t many people doing what she does. And to this day, country in Boulder stands out like a three-piece suit at a hoedown...

Saturday, January 18: Esther Sparks & the Whiskey Remedy. 10 p.m. Jamestown Mercantile, 108 Main St.,Jamestown, 303-442-5847...

Saturday, January 18: Slanted Jack. 10 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922...

Violinist Rachel Barton Pine and her ferocious intensity...

Thursday, Jan. 9...

Saturday, Jan. 11...

Mariachi meets metal. No, really...

In This Moment may still be finishing up its touring cycle behind its fourth album, Blood, with the second leg of its “Hellpop” tour this January. But already, the band has mapped out the next phase of its career...

Thursday, January 2: Nikki Hill. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Outlook Hotel & Home of the Blues, 800 28th St., Boulder, 303-443-3322...

Saturday, January 4: The Prairie Scholars. 4 p.m. Bootstrap Brewing Company, 6778 N. 79th St., Niwot, 303-652-4186...

Friday, January 3: Aaah! Real Monsters. 9 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440- 4628. Boasting a Colorado Springs-born singer, Aaah! Real Monsters brings melodic pop-punk with emotional choruses and catchy hooks.

Post-Louis Armstrong, there probably has not been a more influential American musician, save for Bob Dylan, than Lou Reed, who died two months ago at the age of 71, five years after marrying visionary multimedia artist Laurie Anderson in Boulder. It’s a shame that ...