Music
Strings attached
For most musicians, turning music into your full-time gig is the goal. Almost 25 years after forming, the bluegrass band Steep Canyon Rangers have...
Not playing favorites
When Portland indie-rock duo Quasi released their 2013 album Mole City, they thought it might be their last — but life has a way...
Metal for misanthropes
Pallbearer brought doom metal back from the dead. The gloomy subgenre born from the low-and-slow riffs of Black Sabbath had become redundant and tired...
Big sounds, small packages
The July 4 holiday has always been problematic for the Colorado Music Festival. The summer concert series at Chautauqua Auditorium — one of Boulder’s...
Found Sounds: June 2024
Brat Summer is in full effect on the Front Range. Charli XCX’s hyper-pop dancefloor masterpiece finished high in last month’s rankings of the bestselling...
Concerts: June 27-July 3
ON THE BILL: Oklahoma emo-pop party rockers CLIFFDIVER bring their fun-forward sound from the Southern Plains to the Front Range for a July 2...
Bummer in the summer
In the 1964 Supreme Court case Jacobellis v. Ohio, a First Amendment tangle over the line between art and obscenity, Justice Potter Stewart offered...
Concerts: June 20-26
Returning to the Front Range after last summer’s Red Rocks show with her band Big Thief, celebrated singer-songwriter Adrianne Lenker shares her singular style...
Reelin’ in the years
Sam Bush has a crystal-clear memory of the first time he stepped onto a small ramshackle stage in 1975 at the Telluride Bluegrass Festival.“I...
Ska City, USA
Picture in your mind’s eye the average ska enjoyer and you might see a neck-bearded white guy in checkerboard Vans and a goofy little...
Concerts: June 13-19
ON THE BILL: Following last week’s release of Santa Cruz, the third LP in the “musical memoir” of singer-songwriter David Bazan, the celebrated musician...
Concerts: June 6-12
Canadian indie-pop mainstay Feist comes to Boulder’s eTown Hall for a live radio taping with fellow Canuck Sam Weber on June 8. Whether you’ve...
