Music
Easy Star All-Stars pay homage to the classics
In the early 2000s, back when Napster was king and iTunes was a twinkle in Apple’s eye, an underground rendition of Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon was making its way around college campuses around the country. This was the first labor of love for the Easy Star ...
The magic of the session
The story of Ímar — the traditional Irish music group, not the ninth-century Viking king the band is named after — starts, unsurprisingly, in...
Yeats and beyond
Mike Scott has been heading up The Waterboys for three decades now, with plenty of the usual rock band personnel turnover to be expected of an enterprise this well-tenured, but his latest songwriting collaborator won’t be joining him on the road on his current tour. ...
Spinnin’ on a rock in space
It’s early November, and high winds are whipping up tiny whirlwinds in the parking lot of a quadplex in Nederland where Ted Bruner lives...
Boulder’s holiday musical banquet serves ‘All Things Bright and Beautiful,’ ‘Fire...
The musical banquet that is the holiday season this year brings us “All Things Bright and Beautiful,” “Holiday Memories,” “Fire and Ice” and Diane...
Beatbox vs. symphony
The Boulder Philharmonic’s next concert (Saturday in Macky Auditorium and Sunday in Lakewood) is called “Boulder Sensations,” but the subject is rhythm...
Colorado’s favorite band
A few months back, a link was circulating around the internet as links are wont to do...
Hail to the chiefs
It has been 19 years since The Presidents of the United States of America first broke into the pop charts with the 13 turbo-charged pop oddities that comprised their self-titled debut. Songs like “Lump,” “Peaches,” and “Boll Weevil,” were short, fast, loud, catchy as...
Deuces wild
In 2011, it’s not that uncommon for like-minded people to meet online and create a project together. It has become more prevalent, especially in hip-hop, for producers and vocalists to e-mail each other tracks and vocals for potential songs...
Rhapsody in Tweedy
Over the course of Wilco’s seven previous studio albums, singer/guitarist Jeff Tweedy has been viewed as the musical brains behind the critically acclaimed band...
