Music
Strange train
Just a few days before Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros descend on the Boulder Theater, the band will be making an appearance at Austin’s South By Southwest festival to promote Big Easy Express, a new film directed by Emmett Malloy covering the troupe’s tour-by...
From out of the basement
When the West Water Outlaws formed two years ago, their first show wasn’t ultraglamorous. The band headlined house parties in lead singer Blake Rooker’s basement, which had wall-to-wall white carpeting that, Rooker says, got completely destroyed...
The album that almost wasn’t
With the release of their third studio album Southern Rock Opera in 2001, the Drive-By Truckers finally emerged from local alt-country favorites to national critical darlings. The sprawling, hard-charging, 94-minute epic masterpiece somehow weaves the band’s personal...
With parenthood comes perspective
One of the real changes in how Ani DiFranco approaches live performing these days may be something she does while not performing. But rest assured, DiFranco indicated during a recent phone interview that it’s making a difference in her concerts...
Spawning time
Succumbing to a sudden fit of retro-surfing nostalgia, we recently spun Leftover Salmon’s seminal Ask The Fish for a fresh listen. A riot of colliding strings and goofball interludes and marksman-like musicianship, the band’s first live CD, recorded at the Fox in ...
New director, new direction
The annual Boulder Bach Festival has been an important part of the city’s classical music scene for 30 years. But this year the Finale Concert has a new look...
Classically ambitious
Very few pianists follow a full recital program with a 20-minute encore...
Talking Dead
When 71-year-old Phil Lesh, founding member of the Grateful Dead and widely acknowledged as one of rock ’n’ roll’s greatest bassists, called Boulder Weekly a few weeks back, there was a hint of satisfaction in his voice...
Snowed into the Fox
Eric Krasno doesn’t know what’s going to happen this weekend. Neither do you. And to hear the Soulive guitarist explain it, that’s what makes Snowlive a must-see event this weekend at the Fox Theatre...
Bach for a lifetime
Rick Erickson’s father told him, “When you have Bach, you don’t need anything else...
Boulder Bach Festival Schedule
Kids for Bach concert Sunday, Feb. 12, at 2 p.m., Boulder Public Library...