Music
Just a wink of the eye
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...
Family ties
Tianna Esperanza equates city life to living in a pressure cooker: The concrete, the cars and the people leave no room for her to...
The long strange trip abides
Call it Grateful Dead 2.0: How the counterculture became mainstream
Revenge therapy
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,...
A place for all of it
"You can make changes. Thus, you can change the world. Right?” It’s a bit of wisdom Mark Oliver Everett, who largely goes by the...
Violinist Midori comes to Boulder as a concerto soloist and much,...
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...
Daydream believers
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...
Avant garde pop
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 ...
Once a year on the prairie
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...
On the record
Boulder once had the highest concentration of record stores per capita in the United States, according to Paradise Found owner Will Paradise. In the...
Mabon celebration returns to Planet Bluegrass
In the ancient Gaelic world, Mabon was the time to celebrate the autumn equinox, that mysterious day on the calendar when sunlight and darkness...
Are cigarettes cool again?
It wasn’t supposed to rain on the second night of Caamp’s two-night stint at Red Rocks Amphitheatre. But it’s Colorado, and droplets began to...


















