Music

  Citizen Cope has never been an artist that has enjoyed much radio play or even a big push from his record companies, even though he has spent his entire career up to now on major labels...

Sounds of Lyons, the quirky chamber-music-festival-that-could in Lyons, returns this year in a brand new format...

Tired yet of “Frosty,” “White Christmas” and “Jingle Bells...

I don’t know much about Saskatchewan, but judging from its general flatness and its central location, I imagine it must be Canada’s super-polite version of the Kansas- Nebraska area, just with a different accent and more snow...

On Taarka’s fifth studio album, Adventures in Vagabondia, the band’s well-traveled sound puts down a few solid roots for the first time...

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...

Composers who write their own musical eulogies do not usually create jolly pieces. Dmitri Shostakovich, who suffered various forms of personal and artistic oppression throughout...

When we first saw the marquee bill for this year’s gig, Dave Watts and the Motet tribbing-up the Dead, the first thing that hit us was — wait, Watts is covering one of the unfunkiest bands in pop music lore, daring to navigate the meanderings of post-psychedelic, ...

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...

Nothing happens quickly in Jerry Greene’s world, at least when it comes to developing and staging his erstwhile music project Cowgirl Radio. The Boulder-based guitarist has staged the band, with varying personnel, off and on at The Laughing Goat for a couple of years...

It doesn't get much more legendary than an ex-Beatle. Paul McCartney put on a hell of a show for what looked like a sold-out crowd at the Pepsi Center. He kicked off the night with some well-known post-Beatles stuff before breaking into "All My Loving," to the wild...

Trace Bundy’s evolution from capo-slinging, small-stage local hero (endearingly tagged as “the acoustic ninja” by his Boulder-area fans) to Internet sensation and international soloist has landed the acoustic guitarist in an enviably comfortable place — a well-...