Music

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...

Call it Grateful Dead 2.0: How the counterculture became mainstream

It’s just like me singing in your living room with a three-piece band, or in some little dive bar,” indie-folk singer-songwriter Luke Redfield told me about his new album, The Cartographer, by phone from Minnesota just after spending Christmas with his family there...

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

When you call up Primus bassist and singer-songwriter Les Claypool, it’s tough to know where to start the conversation. His work with Oysterhead, the...

An exhibit of John Lennon's art is coming to Boulder today. Read about the exhibit here. Boulder Weekly caught up with the late Beatle's widow, Yoko Ono, to talk about the exhibit...

Lyons is a great little town that they’re trying to keep a secret, but I don’t know. I think the secret’s out by now,”...

Lisa Siciliano has certainly grown up from the days when she first fell in love with music as a kid in Ohio — having...

Dobroist Justin Konrad describes standing onstage at the 2019 Telluride Bluegrass Festival for the first time as a “surreal experience.” Boulder’s Bowregard had entered...

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 ...

Liz and Kenny Vasko keep taking leaps of faith and landing firmly on their feet. The first jump was when the couple — a former...

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,...