Music
Todd Snider’s Nashville life creeps into his music
Long since graduated from the anti-heroism of mid-90s, grunge-skeptical, alt-folkie status, Todd Snider has quietly grown into a songwriter of unique vintage, capable of uncorking rickety masterpieces of unsung contenders, sardonic social commentary and offbeat ...
Pura musica conspiracy
Gypsy-punk pioneers Gogol Bordello are touring now with an album that’s an athem to and call to action for gypsy punks worldwide. If you’re unfamiliar with the band, the simplest way to describe them is that they thrive on total chaos. And Gogol Bordello will invade ...
Strokes frontman Julian Casablancas speaks out about his solo disc
More than three years have passed since New York band the...
Capturing the spirit, if not the notes
As far as seminal groups of the ’60s and ’70s go, the Grateful Dead were a little bit different. They were less a band than a way of life — a living, breathing mass of humanity with smiles on their faces and flowers behind their ears, traveling around the country ...
Octopus Nebula brings a different electronic groove
There’s an almost sinister grace that pervades Octopus Nebula and their limber, unforced sleepwalk through deep groove electronica. OK, it’s not rocket science; a quartet of live players, all more or less graduates from groove scenes of varying success and commitment...
A certain kind of kin
Fourteen years ago, Yonder Mountain String Band formed over a Guinness in a bar in Nederland, according to a tale spun by guitarist Adam Aijala. The members were young, recently relocated to Colorado and looking for musical companions...
Three’s a crowd, but four’s a party
The Devil Makes Three has been together now for a decade, but guitarist/ singer Pete Bernhard says he feels the group is only now starting to hit its stride...
Breakneck blues
The Beatles did what they do, Dylan did what he does, and the rest of us had to play the blues,” George Thorogood says of the barreling Chicago-style electric blues he has specialized in for 40 years now...
Substance over style
Trace Bundy’s evolution from capo-slinging, small-stage local hero (endearingly tagged as “the acoustic ninja” by his Boulder-area fans) to Internet sensation and international soloist has landed the acoustic guitarist in an enviably comfortable place — a well-...
Big things for Big Gigantic
Local electronic hero and faithful ally to the saxophone Dominic Lalli was all smiles when Boulder Weekly caught up with him last week, and for good reason...
The anguish of slavery
For many, the word “Klezmer” conjures up images of Jewish brides in chairs being hoisted in the air by friends and family while “Hava Nagila” plays in the background, or perhaps the scene in Fiddler on the Roof where men dance with bottles on their heads. But a group...
