Music

Swamp thing

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Dustin Arbuckle’s year is still young, but if the guy at the recent New Brunswick, Canada, gig is any indicator, he may want to plan for longer set lists...

Review: Technicolor Tone Factory with Tauk and Aspen Hourglass

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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...

Grammy nominees take the stage

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The Takács Quartet has such a long and distinguished history, has performed and recorded so much music, that it is surprising to learn there...

‘Best of’ lists are for insecure losers

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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

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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...

Unashamed

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Transformative. It’s a big word, but if anything, it might actually understate the changes Tonight Alive have experienced between making the 2016 album Limitless...

Comets get to sing, so why can’t I?

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I was dreaming of Costa Rica. Of long nights drinking guaro and mangling Spanish grammar; of sea turtle-laden beaches stretching into the horizon, iridescent with moonlight...

Coming clean

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Aside from ZZ Top, probably no other music artist could cause more of a commotion by shaving a beard than Matisyahu...

Love modern

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Jonathan Richman featuring Tommy Larkins on drums. 8 p.m. Chautauqua Community House, 900 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-442- 3282...

Strife into songs

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Michael Miller sounds like he is in a good mood. He is speaking with an air of calm, pausing frequently between and even in the middle of sentences, always searching for just the right words. At times he is even self-deprecating, realizing how easily he can take ...

Consistency and innovation feed Spoon’s indie rock success

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Austin, Texas, indie rockers Spoon have flown under the radar for most of their nearly 15-year career, garnering an underground following but only emerging onto the above-ground scene after several poppy cuts from 2007’s Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga wedged into radio rotation. ...

The pleasures of being a professional innovator

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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 ...