Music

Family ties

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Tianna Esperanza equates city life to living in a pressure cooker: The concrete, the cars and the people leave no room for her to...

America’s sweethearts

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Combing through the seemingly endless constellation of articles about Oklahoma City noise rock band Chat Pile since their full-length debut God’s Country crashed into...

Chompin’ at the bit

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Bonnie and Taylor Sims have been integral elements of the Front Range music scene for over a decade, lending their unique talents to just...

The long strange trip abides

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Call it Grateful Dead 2.0: How the counterculture became mainstream

Revenge therapy

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The latest offering from Plasma Canvas kicks off with a slow burn. “Hymn,” the opening track on the Fort Collins quartet’s new album DUSK,...

On the record

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Boulder once had the highest concentration of record stores per capita in the United States, according to Paradise Found owner Will Paradise. In the...

Avant garde pop

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Satomi Matsuzaki, a Japanese-born, self-taught musician who moved to San Francisco from Tokyo in 1996, highlights the avant indie-rock of Deerhoof with her childlike vocals and thunderous bass guitar. From the simultaneous irreverence, innocence and brilliance of ...

Violinist Midori comes to Boulder as a concerto soloist and much,...

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Sometimes a soloist is more than a soloist. The next concert of the Boulder Philharmonic features the violinist Midori Goto (who performs under the mononym...

Gregory Alan Isakov: The horticultural hypnotist

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A vein of nature runs through troubadour Gregory Alan Isakov’s music, fitting imagery for the singer-songwriter, who lived on a farm for several years. On his new album, The Weatherman, which dropped July 9, Isakov sings of “casting hooks off the California coast,” “...

Daydream believers

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Demi Demitro and Baby Pottersmith, singer-guitarist and co-drummer in the local rock trio the Velveteers, have been mostly inseparable since bonding over a reggae...

Elephant Revival splits the sky with “Break In The Clouds”

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There are some voices that reach out through the speakers and beg everyone in the room to stop their conversations for a moment and just listen. Elephant Revival’s Daniel Rodriguez has such a voice. It’s a timeless folk voice, deep and hearty, weathered but ...

Once a year on the prairie

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Boulder’s orchestras like to present nature in their programming. In Kansas, they like to present their programming in nature. Symphony in the Flint Hills is...