Music
Jeff Tweedy dominates the Boulder Theater
How could one man possibly expect to carry the tightly knit...
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...
Aural orgy
While most of America was dealing chips and cracking cold ones in anticipation of the Super Bowl last Sunday, DeVotchKa’s Nick Urata was at home, catching his breath from an afternoon band rehearsal. The iconoclastic Denver quartet had a Valentine’s gig coming up — ...
Punching back in
When she moved from San Diego to Boulder in 2007 my partner, Irene, was hoping to discover Colorado musicians who moved her as much as the reggae-tinged San Diego-based alt-folkie Beth Preston had. So one can imagine Irene’s surprise when she went grocery shopping at...
The humanity in Of Monsters and Men
Images of mythological creatures and fanciful creations move through a sea of clouds in the music video for “Little Talks,” the chart-topping single that catapulted the Icelandic indie-pop band Of Monsters and Men into the U.S. mainstream in 2011. But with the ...
The composition of carbon
The reason why Ryan Fechter, the bassist for Denver/ Boulder-based indie-rock band Carbon Choir, makes music is a unique one...
The firmament in 4/4
When iconic Grateful Dead drummer and ethno-musicologist Mickey Hart rolls his band through town on Dec. 9, he’ll be bringing along a little of the cosmos...
NedFest 2013: Standing strong
A year after Michigan Mike’s tie-dye-in-the-dust music fest proved it can go on without him, with a little help from his friends, NedFest still swings a pretty mean hula hoop...
New director, new direction
The annual Boulder Bach Festival has been an important part of the city’s classical music scene for 30 years. But this year the Finale Concert has a new look...
Fifty years and counting
Like millions of Americans who lived through the 1960s, my home was filled with Walter Cronkite’s nightly narration of the events of the day. It seemed the struggle for civil rights was at the center of every newscast only to be replaced at times by the bloody ...
All in the balance
Ani DiFranco is a social activist, feminist, independent music pioneer and a consistently challenging folk-pop singer, songwriter and performer...
Jamming at the disco
Marc Brownstein is waiting at the doctor’s office, hoping he doesn’t have a case of the “disco flu...
