Music

The year 2010 was tough for many, but musically, Louisville singer-songwriter and coffee shop staple Jeremy Dion has been having a career year...

Kenny Vasoli’s present-day appearance can come as a surprise to some fans. As the former frontman for pop punk band The Starting Line, Vasoli has traded in his skinny jeans and straightened hair for wooden beads and a more relaxed look to match his new music with ...

Blake Rooker, lead singer and guitarist from the Boulder-based West Water Outlaws, responds a little cautiously when we press him to share some highlights from the band’s recent swing through the steamy Southeast, a sure sign that the big noise/big beat blues-rock ...

It’s rare for people to live out their childhood dreams, but the Diminico brothers are doing just that...

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...

When you combine the prestige of being a headlining MC, the ego of a smartass working stiff, a career that has only grown over two decades and a show at the Fox that immediately sold out months in advance, one might assume that Sean Daley (aka Slug), the voice of hip...

While he was growing up in Athens, Georgia, nobody in Kevin Barnes’ immediate family played music. They had a piano in the house and his sisters took piano lessons briefly, but his parents never listened to music unless they were in the car. Fortunately, the Of ...

They  say God and the Devil are in the details, and in this case the details reveal a most unusual and intriguing program — one aimed directly at what the Boulder Philharmonic Orchestra calls “The Spirit of Boulder...

In This Moment may still be finishing up its touring cycle behind its fourth album, Blood, with the second leg of its “Hellpop” tour this January. But already, the band has mapped out the next phase of its career...

Guitarists have this way of talking about their new guitars like proud parents. So after apologizing briefly to Bill Frisell a few weeks ago for intruding on his pre- London flight time with a phone interview — the publicist told us to call at that time, and that’s ...

The Acidophiles want to take you on a trip In Amandha Gilson’s biology textbook at CSU, the word “acidophile” referred to an organism that flourished in an acidic, normally inhospitable environment. As a band name, it evokes lonely, beautiful imagery of obscure ...

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...