Music
Yonder Mountain String Band rings in another new year
How many roads must a band drive down before you can call them a band...
Lionel Young
Saturday, December 28: The Lionel Young Band. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 North Park Drive, Lafayette, 303- 665-2757...
Hard Working Americans reboot standards
Todd Snider seems to be spending a lot of time these days playing someone else’s songs...
Jazz from unusual places
It will be a Charlie Brown Christmas when the Turtle Island Quartet and jazz vocalist Tierney Sutton take the stage at Macky Auditorium at 4 p.m. on Sunday, Dec. 15...
Dead Tenant comes to Boulder
Johann Sebastian Bach wrote Chaconne in D Minor between 1717 and 1723. In August 2013, Dead Tenant uploaded Chaconne in D Minor as performed on an electric guitar to YouTube...
The aftermath: How the September floods will affect Lyons residents
The sound of Danny Shafer’s guitar has drifted through Boulder County venues for decades now, and for years, he made his home base in the River Bend Mobile Home Park in Lyons, where he lived with his wife and their two children...
Planet Bluegrass: Crisis to opportunity
Music lovers and musicians have enjoyed Planet Bluegrass’ scenic environment for years; however, the gorgeous vista created by the river and the cliff turned nasty during the flood...
Boulder band The Wood Brothers tap into the ‘The Muse’ on...
Among its many discrete charms, The Wood Brothers’ new CD The Muse features a crafty little number, buried well down the program, which gracefully frames the Boulder-native siblings’ quizzically symbiotic approach to songwriting. Titled “Keep Me Around,” a poignant ...
The Infamous Stringdusters raise flood relief money for and with The...
To name them by genre, The Infamous Stringdusters are a bluegrass five-piece. But Stringdusters manager Michael Allenby prefers other descriptors. Tongue in cheek, he sometimes calls them a high-country band. But at their core, Allenby says, the Infamous ...
Electronic musician Pretty Lights: Mapping the sun
Right now, electronic music is more than a trend. It’s a tidal wave. Stars like Tiesto, Skrillex and David Guetta are filling arenas, and according to multiple media reports, cashing checks totaling tens of millions each year...
Salmon steaks, over easy
There was a great moment captured on a YouTube video a few weeks ago as Leftover Salmon was tearing into one of their new tunes, a grassy Andy Thorn-penned bit called “High Country,” at the Loveless Café in Nashville. Salmon was on the third leg of a fall tour that ...
Symphonic odysseys for Pro Musica Colorado
It’s going to be an epic season for the Pro Musica Colorado Chamber Orchestra...
