Music

Black Lips make often chaotic, always entertaining, never-heard-on-the-radio, “flower punk” garage rock...

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

A dozen opera singers walk into a bar...

When you look at it, it’s called a ‘bluegrass festival,’ but it’s a wide-open music festival,” says mandolin great Sam Bush. “I’ve seen everything from Little Feat to Paco de Lucia to Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson to Bill Monroe to Ralph Stanley. Just last year they ...

The Colorado Pro Musica Chamber Orchestra will perform Philip Glass’ Violin Concerto No. 2: “The American Four Seasons,” but don’t ask which season each movement represents...

Morcheeba Feature...

For some, the bulk of popular music in the 1980s is looked back upon as a mere punch line. Flock of Seagulls? Michael Jackson and Paul McCartney doing “Say Say Say”? Poison? Bob Dylan hamming it up in a tacky video that found him earnestly singing, “What’s a ...

Cynthia Katsarelis, director of Pro Music Colorado Chamber Orchestra, is a storyteller...

Blake Rooker, lead singer and guitarist from the Boulder-based West Water Outlaws, responds a little cautiously when we press him to share some highlights from the band’s recent swing through the steamy Southeast, a sure sign that the big noise/big beat blues-rock ...

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 ...

I’ve always been kind of obsessed with the idea of outlaws,” says Will Buck, guitarist for West Water Outlaws, and the man who came up with the band’s name. “Back in the day the outlaws were these guys who were famous for being criminals, and people kind of loved ...

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