Entertainment
Who knew a spelling bee could be so much fun?
In the world of pop culture, you can't walk to the corner store for a soda without running into 15 examples of paeans to the popular kids. Plays, movies and songs seem to suckle at the teat of social acceptance as they lavish praise on the beautiful and adroit, the ...
Bay-area bluesman comes to Boulder
In the 1960s, the electric blues and psychedelic rock revolution consciously paid debt to many of the musicians who laid the groundwork for not only the sound, but the attitude of rock 'n' roll. At Bill Graham's storied Fillmore concerts, you could see Lightnin' ...
Review: White Denim and Moon Taxi at the Fox Theatre, 1/28/14
Like most alternative bands these days, White Denim has been described with at least eight different combinations ending in the word rock. From psychedelic, blues, punk and progressive to soul, jazz and experimental, the group truly does encompass small elements of...
Interview: Jeffrey Nytch
Peter Alexander: My first thought when I heard about this work was, knowing the scope of time in which geologists think, you will really have to compress things in the symphony! Yes, the earth has rhythms, but…Jeffrey Nytch: Well, that’s right, in fact in the work ...
Zoso’s Led Zeppelin tribute is, in some ways, better than the...
Dissertations have been written about tribute bands, which present a very cool opportunity to use the word “simulacra...
Natural-born talent? Author sheds new light on nature-nurture debate
Like most Americans, I was given an IQ test in the first grade and was told I fell just short of what my...
Zombie Shoot
Make all your zombie movie and haunted house fantasies become a reality at the Zombie Shoot in Longmont, where participants will be transported to a zombie apocalypse and have to fight off the living dead themselves. Paintball-style handguns, live zombie actors and ...
Incarnated as indie darlings, the Pixies continue to wow
It’s true, there was great American rock in the years leading up to grunge, but the reason sweetly fierce alt-hardcore bands like the Pixies never made it big in the mainstream is complicated. Sure, if Black Francis had been a little younger, a little more attractive...
After a two-year sabbatical, Thursday returns to the studio
Thursday's opportunity to headline the Taste Of Chaos tour last spring certainly had its benefits, considering it is perhaps the biggest annual package tour of the season and it coincided with a return to action for the band after a two-year break...
