Music
On the record
Boulder once had the highest concentration of record stores per capita in the United States, according to Paradise Found owner Will Paradise. In the...
Are cigarettes cool again?
It wasn’t supposed to rain on the second night of Caamp’s two-night stint at Red Rocks Amphitheatre. But it’s Colorado, and droplets began to...
Dog House Music Studios has become Boulder County’s one-stop shop for...
Liz and Kenny Vasko keep taking leaps of faith and landing firmly on their feet.
The first jump was when the couple — a former...
Rock trio Chevelle more grounded as latest album explores UFOs
What do unidentified flying objects, aliens and hard-rock...
‘This magic moment’
Lisa Siciliano has certainly grown up from the days when she first fell in love with music as a kid in Ohio — having...
‘Go back the way you came’
On the night before her band’s hotly anticipated reunion show last summer at Planet Bluegrass in Lyons, Elephant Revival co-founder Bonnie Paine dreamed about...
Gregory Alan Isakov: The horticultural hypnotist
A vein of nature runs through troubadour Gregory Alan Isakov’s music, fitting imagery for the singer-songwriter, who lived on a farm for several years. On his new album, The Weatherman, which dropped July 9, Isakov sings of “casting hooks off the California coast,” “...
Bark at the moon
It was a full moon when the Boulder County trio known as Prairiewolf rolled tape on the first recording session for their self-titled debut...
Elephant Revival splits the sky with “Break In The Clouds”
There are some voices that reach out through the speakers and beg everyone in the room to stop their conversations for a moment and just listen. Elephant Revival’s Daniel Rodriguez has such a voice. It’s a timeless folk voice, deep and hearty, weathered but ...
The philosophy of Victor Wooten
“I approach music like a kid playing air guitar: There is no...
Grass, no jam
Dobroist Justin Konrad describes standing onstage at the 2019 Telluride Bluegrass Festival for the first time as a “surreal experience.” Boulder’s Bowregard had entered...
The secret’s out
Lyons is a great little town that they’re trying to keep a secret, but I don’t know. I think the secret’s out by now,”...


















