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We know why the flightless bird shreds
Famously, or infamously, the story goes that Buckethead didn’t pass an informal audition to be Ozzy Osbourne’s guitarist at Ozzfest some years ago. Not...
Through the lens
In the summer of 1871, America was celebrating its 95th birthday and the recent acquisition of more territories due to the Mexican-American War. Manifest...
‘Be wary of windows’
"Young women, be wary of windows
as you sit shuttling needle through a full
white moon of cloth. ...”
So opens the poem “The Fall” in a...
Hear it again for the first time
"Singers are beautiful like Diana Ross or Petula Clark. I’m just a normal person,” says Carole King in Beautiful to guitarist Nick. “Who wants...
It’s ‘Ghostbusters,’ whaddya want?
Sadly, but as expected, news that writer/director Paul Feig’s reboot of Ghostbusters would feature four women in the lead roles was met by the...
Never gonna be president now
A fitting fable: Scorpion asked Frog if he would carry him across the river. Frog, afraid of being stung by Scorpion, hesitated.
“Never fear,” Scorpion...
Two drummers, one beat
Blues-rocker Joe Bonamassa has made a habit of choosing a specific theme or musical direction before recording many of his solo albums.
For his new...
To bend, not to break
Marda Kirn is no stranger to the topic of immigration. Raised in the U.S. by a traveling father and an Austrian mother, Kirn faced...
‘Baby Doe’ opens Central City Opera season
Central City Opera (CCO)has a fresh and imaginative remake of an old friend this summer.
Their 60th-anniversary production of Douglas Moore’s The Ballad of Baby...
‘A picture with a smile — and perhaps, a tear’
Like it or not, artists change. Though we wish to preserve them in amber, those we hold near and dear grow into individuals that...
More than cursory
"You can find music to be cathartic if you’re willing to be honest with it,” says Andy Baxter, lyricist and one half of the...
Return of CMF mini-festival and former director
Fans of Brahms’s warm Romanticism (and who in the classical audience isn’t?) have much to look forward to.
In three concerts, the Colorado Music Festival...
