Music
Just a wink of the eye
When you call up Primus bassist and singer-songwriter Les Claypool, it’s tough to know where to start the conversation. His work with Oysterhead, the...
Once a year on the prairie
Boulder’s orchestras like to present nature in their programming. In Kansas, they like to present their programming in nature.
Symphony in the Flint Hills is...
Photo essay: Incubus at Red Rocks Aug. 17
Incubus played Red Rocks Amphitheatre on Wednesday, Aug. 17, and Rage Against the Machine guitarist Tom Morello opened. Boulder Weekly's Dane Cronin was there, and he snapped these pictures.
Boulder bluegrass icon Hot Rize returns to roots
Colorado is well known for its folksy bluegrass scene. Bands like Leftover Salmon, The String Cheese Incident and Yonder Mountain String Band sell out shows all along the Front Range, and Colorado is also home to the yearly, highly-successful RockyGrass festival that...
In the nick of time, Boulder Symphony will bring listeners ‘Out...
It wasn’t really planned that way, but the Boulder Symphony’s next concert arrives just in the nick of time...
A feast for the soul
It seems too soon, but it’s here — that subtle change in the evening air that suggests the shift from summer to autumn is nearing. We’ve just transitioned out of what the Old Farmer’s Almanac considers the oppressively hot “dog days of summer,” and a reprieve from ...
New directions
When Rachel Eckroth was an up-and-coming keyboardist in the jazz scene in Phoenix, Arizona, it was her father who took the teenaged Rachel to...
Your imaginary friend
Most musicians want to be known. Some even want photos of their faces plastered across the covers of high-profile music magazines and lining the walls of teenagers’ bedrooms. The allure of “celebrity” often fuels the desire to keep creating. Slow Magic, however, is ...
Flowers in bloom
After six years of almost non-stop concert tours, with more than 15 million CDs sold, Las Vegas band The Killers decided they needed a break. Their hiatus, except for an upcoming Christmas single, has provided the opportunity for their charismatic lead singer, ...
The shifting narrative of Gen Z
At just 23, Finnish-American nonbinary artist Miki Ratsula is ready to take on transphobia in the music industry—and the culture as a whole—with their...
Divorce, new beginnings and music
Kelly Crisp talks of Loud Planes Fly Low, the recently released CD she made with her musical partner in The Rosebuds, Ivan Howard, as if it’s the duo’s first album all over again...
