Music
REVIEW: Eliot Lipp at the Fox Theatre, Dec. 7
For those who didn’t sweat the end of another semester, last...
The firmament in 4/4
When iconic Grateful Dead drummer and ethno-musicologist Mickey Hart rolls his band through town on Dec. 9, he’ll be bringing along a little of the cosmos...
Boulder all-stars
Artists work their whole lives to develop and maintain an identity. It’s important externally — it helps form a following...
Professor turns virtuoso
Getting a touring musician on the cell phone for a few minutes isn’t exactly rocket science these days, unless their GPS has taken a dive rolling through Sasquatch country or the van has blown a sidewall in a granite-lined mountain pass tunnel someplace, but it ...
SLIDESHOW: Big Head Todd and the Monsters at eTown
Dane Cronin snapped photos at the Big Head Todd and the Monsters show last night at the Boulder Theater. Check them out and wish you had been there.
Those barbaric Yawpers
No one knows for certain why some bands connect with the public and others don’t. It’s a mystery that musicians and critics have argued about for ages. No Doubt wallowed in obscurity for almost a decade until Gwen Stefani began writing accusatory songs about her ...
’Tis the season
For a list of classical music concerts happening during the holiday season in Boulder, click here...
Back to pilfer Xmas
We’ll never begrudge a rapper moving beyond the cheap sensationalism of bitches, banging and bling, but we also don’t need a loquacious, underemployed PBS viewer schooling us on life’s finer points, as is the custom of many so-called “conscious rappers...
Holiday classical concerts in Boulder
The calendar of holiday events by Boulder County’s classical music organizations heats up this weekend with Pro Musica Colorado and St. Martin’s Chamber Choir’s performances of Bach’s rarely heard Christmas Oratorio (see story at left). 7:30 p.m., Friday, Dec. 2, St...
The birth of Technicolor Tone Factory
On any given night in Boulder, you can find DJ sets and the sounds of electronica leaking out the doors of bars around town. For musicians in their early 20s, the peer pressure and demand to go digital is enormous, and that’s exactly why the persistent militia of ...
Crooning for confidence
When a new minister makes a statement moralizing about the evils of homosexuality, what’s the first thing people say? If your friends are as cynical as mine: He’s gotta be gay...
