Music
Bluegrass without borders
Bluegrass lovers revere the genre’s legendary pickers and singers. And every July at RockyGrass — the high holiday for Front Range fanatics taking place...
Vinyl music still selling despite crashing CD sales
The Internet has really been the bully of the last decade. Like the mafia, it moved into town and immediately took a cut out of every lucrative opportunity there was. It broke journalism’s kneecaps, smuggled the breath right out of the music industry’s lungs, and ...
The Word wants to inspire you
The Word is difficult to describe succinctly. The supergroup’s sound is a gospel-influenced musical fusion combining the talents of jazz pianist and organist John Medeski, southern blues/rock band North Mississippi Allstars and the soulful guitar sounds of Robert ...
The passions of Bach
Bach’s St. John Passion is a dramatic musical work that tells the story of Jesus’ betrayal and crucifixion...
Book of rhymes
For the first decade of its existence, rap music was deemed a fad, another pop culture trend to soon fade like disco and pet rocks. After rap music defied the prediction of its demise, its musicality came into question. Was it real music? After selling billions ...
Imagining a better world
In 1970, Scotland Yard busted into the prestigious London Art Gallery, shutting down a newly opened show and seizing eight pieces of artwork deemed obscene by authorities. The confiscated lithographs, a relatively tame set of erotic nudes created by the artist for ...
Nothing but changes for restless Murs
Some guys worry about success and how to make it happen. Others simply do, channeling their ambition into creation, believing hard work and passion will take them wherever they need to go. Los Angeles-born rapper Nick Carter, aka Murs, is the latter such artist, ...
Lotus: Cleaning out the grease
We asked Luke Miller, guitarist and one-half of the brother team that comprises the core of the funktronica quartet Lotus, about the flyer we came across in Cleveland last January, while we were in town visiting family. It was a little slice of home, not even so much...
A taste of the world’s music at CU
If you are a fan of West African Highlife, that most infectious of world music styles, you could travel to Accra, Lagos or Yaounde. Or you could walk over to Grusin Music Hall on the University of Colorado Boulder campus...
Gregory Alan Isakov: The horticultural hypnotist
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,” “...
Longmont Jazz Festival highlights Colorado’s jazz scene
High school students and renowned jazz artists will take the same stage this weekend to present a sampling of jazz in Colorado...
