Music

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...

Colorado hip-hop group The foodchain have barely been together a year and a half, but they’re continually gaining notoriety. Consisting of four emcees, two producers, a DJ and a percussionist, The foodchain released their debut album, Corpses, in February, a ...

Guitarist Pete Townshend has revealed that he is working on a new production in the tradition of the Who's Tommy and Quadrophenia that he calls Floss. The guitarist also told Rolling Stone magazine that the more conventional songs from Floss will be part of a new Who...

The faint whiff of cruel irony wasn’t lost on Elephant Revival’s bassist Dango Rose; merely 10 days after the band members released their new CD These Changing Skies, the skies above their own home turf turned hellish and hammered their neighborhood with the kind of ...

Ellis with special guest Justin Roth...

After Page Hamilton broke up his band, Helmet, in 1998, he thought not only might he never bring back Helmet, he might even set aside his signature instrument...

Rapper Wale has never made a secret of his desire to have each of his albums outsell the others and attain major popularity. He named his second album Ambition, after all...

The creative process of a singer-songwriter can be a lonesome one. You write songs alone, rehearse alone, often perform alone. A byproduct of that solitude is total control over the final product, but when it comes time to start working with bands, the reality of ...

David Sugalski ventures to distant galaxies and inner headspaces as The Polish Ambassador, a lone emissary on a noble and funky mission through the cosmos to spread electro party vibes to every corner of the universe...

When the West Water Outlaws formed two years ago, their first show wasn’t ultraglamorous. The band headlined house parties in lead singer Blake Rooker’s basement, which had wall-to-wall white carpeting that, Rooker says, got completely destroyed...

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 Boulder Philharmonic opens its 53rd season at 7:30 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 11, in Macky Auditorium with a program titled “Heroic Portraits...