Music

There’s a nostalgic element to the term “psych-rock” that harkens back to the tie-dyed, patchouli-scented dorm rooms that spun the records of The Doors, Jefferson Airplane and Velvet Underground. Calling something “psychedelic” invokes a sort of free-love, tripped-...

It wasn’t really planned that way, but the Boulder Symphony’s next concert arrives just in the nick of time...

  It is nice to know that Greg Laswell has a sense of humor. When asked how his latest album, Take a Bow, compares to his previous albums, he deadpans, “I use different song titles and lyrics and melodies...

Sallie Ford says that growing up, she was more comfortable singing in groups than by herself. (Her sister, after all, was the one with the performance flair.) Ford was never one for the spotlight, she says...

To equate Mayer Hawthorne to an old soul is more accurate than most would even realize. While Hawthorne’s fans recognize it as an allusion to a sound oft-compared to legendary sounds of yore like Isaac Hayes, Barry White or Curtis Mayfield, it’s also a proper ...

The Boulder Philharmonic’s next concert (Saturday in Macky Auditorium and Sunday in Lakewood) is called “Boulder Sensations,” but the subject is rhythm...

The hottest headphones on the market right now are without a doubt Dr. Dre’s signature Beat by Dre headphones. Coming in at $120 or more for the in-ear headphones and up to $400 for the over-the-ear headphones, Beats by Dre boast the best audio for in-studio use or ...

In their 15th year as a group, Umphrey’s McGee is coming to Colorado to play shows on June 7 at Red Rocks Ampitheatre and June 8 at Chautauqua Auditorium. Boulder Weekly caught up with keyboardist/vocalist Joel Cummins to talk about the upcoming Colorado shows, ...

When vibraphone player Greg Harris took his New World Citizen Quartet out to play a couple of months ago, opening for Baaba Maal at the L2 Arts and Culture Center in Denver, he positioned himself behind a Gyil (pronounced JEE-lee), a 14-key xylophone indigenous to ...

The state of original music in this country is wonderful. It could be argued that, although corporate-owned mainstream radio has eschewed what’s clearly good, honest music, for what will sell (and what’s released by labels owned by the aforementioned corporations), ...

It’s going to be a “blue jeans plus dinner jacket” kind of season with the Boulder Philharmonic this year...

At first glance, it doesn’t seem like Colorado has anything in common with the Deep South. Yet despite geographical differences, the love of music crosses all boundaries...