Music
Review: Technicolor Tone Factory with Tauk and Aspen Hourglass
Progressive rock was the theme of the night at the Fox Theatre on Friday, Feb. 7. Three groups each played their own version of the genre. Garage band Aspen Hourglass from Fort Collins opened up with a bang to get the crowd ready for a loud night. The trio consisting...
Never for money, always for love
By its second anniversary, back in 1994, the Mountain Sun Pub and Brewery already needed a bigger space for its birthday bash — the...
An orchestra of one
Zoë Keating is not your typical cellist. Instead of performing with an orchestra, she marries her cello to a variety of loopers, pedals and laptops to create a layered cello experience which makes her a one-woman orchestra. But as much as she relishes her ongoing ...
Final weekend of CMF packs variety
The Colorado Music Festival (CMF) ends the 2016 season this weekend with performances representing a portion of the breadth and variety the festival has...
CU NOW presents selections from new opera by Jake Heggie and...
ake Heggie, composer of the opera Dead Man Walking, and Gene Scheer, who wrote librettos for Heggie’s Moby Dick and It’s a Wonderful Life,...
Citizen Cope has flitted from label to label and now has...
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...
Elyse Miller surprises with ‘Paperdoll’
Paperdoll, Fort Collins singer-songwriter Elyse Miller’s debut effort, is an unusual entry in the seemingly endless catalog of soft, somewhat sardonic music made by acoustic guitar-wielding musicians so ubiquitous in our nation’s coffee shops and open mics...
Jimmy Herring’s 5 of 7
"You work when ya’ can.”
Jimmy Herring isn’t one of those guys to sit back and recharge batteries. At least not yet. Widespread Panic rolls...
Focus puller
When it came time for singer-songwriter-guitarist William Fitzsimmons to start work on his newest project, Lions — which released in February — it felt like a personal and professional reboot...
It’s Bootsy, baby
William “Bootsy” Collins, bassist extraordinaire and rhythmic savant, has done it all. He played regimented, tightly wound funk with Godfather of Funk James Brown. He played with George Clinton and his merry band of Funkadelic freaks. He broke out on his own. He made...
The humble band with ambition
When people ask how the six members of the vocal rock band Face met each other, they say Eharmony.com and it always gets a chuckle, says Mark Megibow, the vocal drummer of Face. After 14 years in-theworks, Face has come to be loved by their fellow Colorado natives ...

















