Music
Rev(AMP)’ed
Sometimes it just doesn’t work out. Relationships are funny like that. Things can always go south, even when it’s been going well for years. In the case of Oakland-based hip-hop duo Zion I, emcee Zumbi and producer Amp Live have been through the gamut. There’s an ...
Temper Trap’s big arc
Sound check always reminds us a little of the famous quote about people who love the law and enjoy sausage, only applied to music. We caught The Temper Trap’s road manager last week a bit off-guard for our phone interview with the lads; the world was ending behind ...
Bike underpass echoes
There are probably few choir groups that have ever performed with such emotion that they evoked tears from their audience, but in December 2010, caroler Debbie Giallombardo remembers a woman almost brought to tears by what she was singing on the Pearl Street Mall...
Laurie Morvan burns in blue
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 ...
Good vibes
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 ...
A farewell to the baton at the CMF
One day, back when she was Kristy Peterson, composer Kristin Kuster got bored...
The jokers of spades
Not many modern metal groups are featured on NPR’s First Listen or routinely garner nearly a halfmillion YouTube views when a new music video is released. But Portland sludge-rock favorite Red Fang, which plays the Gothic Theatre in Denver this Friday night, has a ...
Music for movement, and movement to music
The Boulder Bach Festival will reprise its highly successful 2014 partnership with 3rd Law Dance/Theater with a new work that combines the music of J.S. Bach with iconoclastic 20th-century American composer John Cage...

















