Music
Psyching out the rock
A band promising a new type of concert experience usually sounds like little more than hype...
Pro Musica Colorado offers four seasons
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...
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...
Face to Face pens solid summer album
I’m not sure how I have remained completely and utterly unaware of Face To Face until now. They had a big time radio hit with “Disconnected” in 1994, which was back in the pre-iPod days of yore when I would still turn on the radio more than semi-annually. Plus, ...
Fun-loving criminals
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 ...
Throw down your preconceived notions
If the banjo was an actor in today’s movie industry, it would be suffering from a severe case of typecasting, relentlessly placed in the role of Appalachian hillbilly instrument, a medium suited only for bluegrass, country and folk music. It’s nothing new — in the ...
New CMF music director aims to build a relationship with the...
Jean-Marie Zeitouni is excited about his entire first season as music director of the Colorado Music Festival (CMF...
Brace yourself for Stockhausen
If you are looking for a mind-blowing classical music experience, Boulder is the place to be next week...
New label, new concept
Dani Filth, frontman of Cradle Of Filth, made himself a promise after writing the latest in a series of concept albums with the group’s 2008 CD, Godspeed on the Devil’s Thunder...
Dead Weather electrify the Ogden
The Dead Weather wowed a packed house at the Ogden Theatre Saturday night (July 17) with a stellar performance and infectious stage presence...
Shorty’s wild ride
When Troy “Trombone Shorty” Andrews and his band Orleans Avenue released their breakthrough CD Backatown in the spring of 2010, there were few outside his club-circuit fan base and the New Orleans cognoscenti who would have predicted how far it would take the 24-year...
Casual meets formal for Boulder philharmonic
It’s going to be a “blue jeans plus dinner jacket” kind of season with the Boulder Philharmonic this year...


















