Music
From the hills (kind of)
They don’t need drums. They don’t need bass. Sparse, gentle acoustic guitar appears now and then, but on many of their songs the three young, honey-voiced members of the new Vermont alt-folk trio Mountain Man use no musical accompaniment whatsoever. The result is ...
Career change
Plenty of young musicians decide to put college on hold to take a shot at having a career writing songs and performing...
Ballet with wings
What began as a coincidence has become a ballet. After being serendipitously featured together in both Westword and 5280 magazines, Denver band Paper Bird and Ballet Nouveau Colorado have joined forces to create “Carry On,” a full-length, multimedia performance ...
Fearsome gravitational pull
There is only one way to describe Big Gigantic’s success, and it doesn’t require a half-assed play on words. The duo’s highly anticipated show at the Fox Theatre, which sold out months ago nearly within a day, marks exactly two years since producer/saxophonist ...
All-star collaboration
There’s a great moment from an audience video shot last October at the Rock ’n Roots fest in Amsterdam of Joe Satriani, Sonny Landreth and Davy Knowles gang-tackling the old blue-rock warhorse “I’m Going Down,” one of those easy-to-rehearse standby numbers that gets ...
Hip-hop Rok
Denver rapper Mane Rok, real name Sam Baron, has been cutting his teeth in the Colorado hip-hop scene for more than a decade. Whether it was competing in rhyme battles, organizing shows and events or releasing albums with his group, ManeLine, Mane has proudly ...
Strumming the sacred steel
Anyone who has followed the career of Robert Randolph & the Family Band knows that they love giving people a good time. From their legendary, epic shows at The Wetlands, to the insanely catchy groove of tracks like “Ain’t Nothing Wrong With That,” to the Sly & the ...
Jazz in threes
Joshua Redman is drawn to collaboration. For his entire career, the tenor saxophonist has surrounded himself with the best musicians in modern jazz, creating a true give-and-take on the bandstand and breaking out of the standard leader-accompanist mold. Redman, who ...
Jamming at the disco
Marc Brownstein is waiting at the doctor’s office, hoping he doesn’t have a case of the “disco flu...
Boulder Philharmonic freaks out
It seems like a typical night at the symphony: some light orchestral dances to open the program, a blockbuster piano concerto with a popular soloist and music by Frank Zappa...
