Music
Moments of panic, averted
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...
Filling the gap between Medeski, Martin and Wood
Bassist Chris Wood was taking some midday chill time in Athens, Ga., when we caught up to him last weekend, cooling his heels before his gig that night with The Wood Brothers band, his six-year project with his brother, guitarist and singer Oliver. The Wood Brothers ...
Gesturing across the country
It’s rare for people to live out their childhood dreams, but the Diminico brothers are doing just that...
Rocking out in a cabin
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Pilgrims of the stage
For me, folk music is a drug, a truth serum of sorts. It has the ability to make me see my life for not only what it is but also what it could and should be. I suspect I’m not alone. The side effects of such inward clarity can’t be taken lightly. Too much of the ...
Still Super
Supergroup is a rather overused term. Publicists throw it around every time a number of musicians come together under a new identity or project. The New Pornographers might have it backwards, but they’ve nonetheless become such an entity all the same...
Living the electronic dream
Boulder is no Hollywood — and it’s best we leave it that way — but celebrityspotting is just as possible in this town if you’ve got the right star map...
Bit o’ honey
Things were coming to a close for nascent guitarist Joe Lewis. The nearly lifelong Austin resident had reached the end of his musical rope. He was without a band and about to hang up his short-lived guitar career, when he received a call from Zach Ernst. A member of ...
We be culture jamming
A couple years ago, after Joshua Goldberg, the community and events manager of Longmont’s Left Hand Brewing Company, donated free cases of beer to an event for Intercambio — an immigrant advocacy organization that promotes understanding across cultures through ...
Musical medics
Everything you need to know about psych-rockers The Black Angels is right there in the name. Think other-wordly dark comfort, inspired by the Velvet Underground and their fuzz-laden epic, “The Black Angel’s Death Song.” Billowing clouds of guitar shrouding sultry ...
Music on the electronic frontier
Jamie Janover is a guy who’ll tell you that you can’t do everything all at once, and then proceed to more or less prove himself wrong...
Viva Yo la Tengo
Ever fantasize about being somebody else or doing something else with your life? James McNew, longtime bassist for indie rock grandees Yo la Tengo, doesn’t know what the hell you’re talking about. “I think this is what we all wanted to be,” says McNew, speaking for ...