Music

Paul McCartney charms the Pepsi Center

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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...

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 ...

Poetry and music combine

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Assembling a work of art is like putting together a puzzle: Sometimes it’s a struggle to make the pieces fit, and sometimes they just fall into place...

Breakneck blues

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The Beatles did what they do, Dylan did what he does, and the rest of us had to play the blues,” George Thorogood says of the barreling Chicago-style electric blues he has specialized in for 40 years now...

Citizen Cope has flitted from label to label and now has...

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  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...

Eulogy of self

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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...

Boulder musicians band together to honor the late Jeff Buckley

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Editor's Note: There are two Jeff Buckley tribute bands playing this coming week in Boulder. The photo for "To honor a legacy" (Nov. 12) depicted another Jeff Buckley tribute band, Your Sweet Return, playing the b.side Lounge Nov. 18.  Today's print product displayed...

Christmas music through the centuries

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

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 ...

Different recipe, same great taste

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As Leftover Salmon prepares for its massive block party in Denver to celebrate the release of Aquatic Hitchhiker, its seventh studio album and its first since the band went on hiatus in 2005, a look at the band’s 22-year history provides some insight into the group’s...

Taarka: Seeking Americana

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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...

Strokes frontman Julian Casablancas speaks out about his solo disc

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More than three years have passed since New York band the...