Music
Music with heart
There is something wholly refreshing about the way Nederland acoustic folk quintet Elephant Revival approaches their art. In an industry full of cynicism and bloated egos, Elephant Revival is the wide-eyed idealist in a room full of cynics...
Under the covers
Paul Simon, Velvet Underground and Blind Willie McTell covers on the same album … you don’t hear that every day...
Strokes frontman Julian Casablancas speaks out about his solo disc
More than three years have passed since New York band the...
Seizing the reins
The year 2010 was tough for many, but musically, Louisville singer-songwriter and coffee shop staple Jeremy Dion has been having a career year...
Blast your ears off
BoomBox began as the meeting of two new souls in Muscle Shoals, the famous town in Alabama where Bob Dylan, Aretha Franklin, The Rolling Stones and others recorded albums. Producer Russ Randolph met singer/guitarist Zion Godchaux during a 2004 recording session for ...
Beethoven explained
Tired of weird spring weather? Bahmann Saless is doing something about it...
Souls remembered and forgotton
ON JANUARY 25, 2006, police officials in North London executed orders to repossess a bedsit, essentially an efficiency apartment, for which rent had gone intolerably in arrears. With no reply to knocks, the police broke in the double locked front door and found the ...
Ridin’ dirty
I hold open the door at Illegal Pete’s for Kalyn Heffernan as she rolls her electric wheelchair inside. At least a dozen people are eating in small groups, and everyone almost instinctively takes a turn to give Heffernan the same stare. It’s a quick glance that ...
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-...
’Tis the seasons
The next performance of the Boulder Chamber Orchestra (BCO) will transport listeners to 18th-century Venice and 20th-century Buenos Aires, and several points in between...
G-Love and Special Sauce learn to G-love their new album
Philadelphia’s G. Love and Special Sauce will be doing two consecutive nights at the Boulder Theater, Friday, April 11 and Saturday, April 12. But Sugar, the new studio album dropping April 22 that Love is in town promoting is not at all the album he was ready to ...
