Music

There`s a bit of peril involved in mining this meme too deeply, but as Noah and the Whale slide a little awkwardly out of their charmingly twee folkie-pop dungarees into shinier, smooth-surface synth-pop threads, it may not be much of a surprise that their third long...

When speaking with Michael James, one of the guitarists for Explosions in the Sky, you quickly discover that two things are at the forefront of his mind with respect to the band: time and communication. Sometimes things happen quickly and easily, like when you meet...

After more than a year of interviews and a handful of tantalizingly oblique online manifestos aligned with the mission of a shadowy group called The Starset Society, Dustin Bates, lead singer and concepteur behind the Columbus, Ohio-based quartet Starset, wants ...

The creative process of a singer-songwriter can be a lonesome one. You write songs alone, rehearse alone, often perform alone. A byproduct of that solitude is total control over the final product, but when it comes time to start working with bands, the reality of ...

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

What an age! Everyone is dying, everything is dying, and the earth is dying also, eaten up by the sun and the wind. I...

The sounds filling Denver’s Mercury Café at the end of each month may come from Colorado musicians, but the traditions behind them traveled a...

The Academy Is ... isn't afraid of taking chances...

Things were coming to a close for nascent guitarist Joe Lewis. The nearly lifelong Austin resident had reached the end of his musical rope. He was without a band and about to hang up his short-lived guitar career, when he received a call from Zach Ernst. A member of ...

Guitarist/songwriter Tommy Castro, one of the West Coast blues scene’s hardest-working and most ferociously engaging figures, swings back into Boulder tonight for a midweek gig at the Outlook. For a guy who plays the Blues Cruise once or twice a year and ...

Smashing Pumpkins are considered to be one of the seminal rock ’n’ roll groups, whose top-charting albums in the ’90s paved the way for many bands today. Billy Corgan, the frontman and only remaining original member, reformed the band in 2007 and released Zeitgeist, ...

After four-and-a-half years, Springdale Quartet is ready to move on to bigger and better things. As bassist Jordan Roos explains, that means everything from the venues they play to the music they make...