Music

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

The members of the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band make up one of those musical ensembles that has always defied category. For hyphen-happy reviewers, there never seemed to be enough dashes to capture the band’s ever-evolving essence...

To help generate a buzz for the release of its latest CD, If Not Now, When, Incubus’ management came up with a novel idea. The band would rent out a gallery storefront in Los Angeles, set up its instruments and play shows in this small space for six nights over a ...

One day, back when she was Kristy Peterson, composer Kristin Kuster got bored...

Persistence has a way of sponsoring tenure, and tenure has a funny way of growing some awkward extremities. Bruce Kaufman carries one of them around with him regarding his two-decade journey fronting My Evil Twin (MET...

With the music industry clamoring to find ways to make...

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...

A dozen opera singers walk into a bar...

NedFest is set to launch for the 16th year in a row this weekend with new acts, good beer and old mountain hospitality...

Twenty-for years ago, Robert Olson went for a walk at the Dillon Reservoir. His wife was in a rehearsal at the Breckenridge Music Festival, so he took a book along...

There’s some undeniable peril in tapping a rock song reference to name your band. The casual listener may mistake you for a tribute band (and conversely, if you are a tribute band, you’re more or less compelled to do it), and the obsessive-retentive types are likely ...

California blues guitarist Laurie Morvan and her band are in that place right now where they draw two-paragraph mentions in local newspapers, generous but usually short features, CD reviews in small-circ blues magazines, and generally positive festival appearance ...