Music
A real privilege
Late last year, sometime in October, Rod Argent got a call from Billboard. The Zombies’ new album, Still Got That Hunger, had debuted at...
The philosophy of Victor Wooten
“I approach music like a kid playing air guitar: There is no...
Boulder’s Summa: Balancing the rock equation
Jake O’Neal, the front man of local indie rock outfit Summa, is neither left-brained nor right-brained. He’s both a falsetto-wielding singer-songwriter who pens lyrics charged with emotion and an electrical engineer who graduated summa cum laude from CU-Boulder last ...
Luigi Cherubini is a gem
Maria Luigi Carlo Zenobio Salvatore Cherubini just may be the most influential classical composer you have never heard of.
As director of the Paris Conservatoire...
Green light for Boulder band Na’an Stop
The five friends who make up Na’an Stop couldn’t believe they sold out their first headlining show at the Fox Theater last January. It was a big achievement for the reggae-roots band born out of CU-Boulder, which had been slowly gaining recognition around town for ...
Ukuleletrix Leigh Jones
Sunday, February 9: Leigh Jones. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628...
Lindsey Saunders
Friday, March 21: Lindsey Saunders & Her Band. 7:30 p.m. Cannon Mine Coffee, 210 S. Public Road, Lafayette, 303-665-0625...
The musical sandbox
Matt Butler is the conductor and focal point of an ever-rotating series of musicians that creates the Everyone Orchestra. The band itself is an improvised jam band created specifically for each show, with different combinations of musicians playing every performance...
Life in the elephant cage
As Danny Shafer’s marriage came to an end a couple of years ago, songs began to flow out of him.
“I knew I had to...
CD review: Girl in a Coma, Exits & All the Rest
If you gave Girl in a Coma’s new CD, Exits & All The Rest to 10 different people, you’d likely receive in return 10 different opinions about which established female vocalist lead singer Nina Diaz most sounds like. Though by no means an exhaustive list, I could see ...
Summer sounds
Colorado`s summer music festivals have folded up their tents. School is starting, but the weather tells us that fall hasn’t arrived yet. And thanks to Boulder’s Dairy Center for the Arts and the chamber music consortium Astraios, audiences can have one last ...


















