Music
Bahman Saless and the Boulder Chamber Orchestra celebrate all the holidays
Conductor Bahman Saless and the Boulder Chamber Orchestra (BCO) have a couple of holiday traditions.
Every year they honor the December holidays as ecumenically as...
The Appleseed Collective
Thursday, March 6: The Appleseed Collective. 9 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303- 440-4628...
Erykah Badu, Janelle Monae rock Denver’s Fillmore
Erykah Badu is just about a month into her Out My Mind, Just in Time Tour with rotating opening acts that so far have included N.E.R.D., Bilal, Lupe Fiasco, B.O.B. and Maxwell. But for most of the tour, including the Denver show at the Fillmore Auditorium on June 16...
Endless Scene
Bluegrass music is meant to be heard while sitting on a grassy field at a sunny summer festival. That’s the belief of fair-weather bluegrass...
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...
10-town travel
When faced with the bleak prospect of a grueling tour in support of her 2009 album, Wilson St., Austin, Texas, singer-songwriter Charlie Faye had an idea. Instead of 100 shows in 200 days, why not experiment? How about 10 one-month residencies in 10 towns across ...
Electronic musician Pretty Lights: Mapping the sun
Right now, electronic music is more than a trend. It’s a tidal wave. Stars like Tiesto, Skrillex and David Guetta are filling arenas, and according to multiple media reports, cashing checks totaling tens of millions each year...
Y’all got it wrong
As Charley Crockett drove out of the depths of Death Valley into a field of Joshua trees, the snow began to swirl. He had...
Portugal. The Man hits a stride with their latest, poppy album
You see a lot of unexpected buzz-band hyperbole in this business. Most of it is little more than well-meaning, thesaurus-clutching publicists trying to earn their keep, but when you read the Wall Street Journal hyping up a band as bearers of the best set at this year...
Like a pearl
In some ways, Phoebe Hunt is just one among a sea of millennials, one who routinely submits herself to existential crises, bobbing and weaving...