Music
Award success
Chris Pandolfi’s timing was a year off. The banjo player for the Infamous Stringdusters intently watched last year’s Grammys hoping for some recognition of the band’s self-titled release. When the time came and went, so did Pandolfi’s attention span toward the Grammy...
Super slash
If you’ve been waiting to see jazz/ funk/rock group Garage A Trois in concert, you’ll have to forgive the quartet for being so busy. After all, each member is spinning multiple plates, which is why they’re so popular in the first place. Yet Skerik wouldn’t have it ...
Studio savior
It’d be difficult not to hear an echo of Fleet Foxes shaggy Northwestern Pacific folk-pop or Elliott Smith’s strummy melancholia in the delicate chamber-folk beauty of Blind Pilot’s second album, We Are the Tide. The Portland sextet’s September release is a dramatic ...
Near-lost composers come to life at Colorado Music Festival
Boulder’s Chautauqua this summer will be home to several music festivals...
The Prairie Scholars
Saturday, January 4: The Prairie Scholars. 4 p.m. Bootstrap Brewing Company, 6778 N. 79th St., Niwot, 303-652-4186...
Dogs in space
When we caught up to him after a morning jog at his home in Hawaii, we expressed some interest that Evan Bartholomew (aka Bluetech) had chosen Laika, the Russian dog remembered as the first living being to be launched into earth orbit, as the title of the leadoff ...
The ‘Fifth’ for the 10th
Bahman Saless, the conductor of the Boulder Chamber Orchestra, is usually an optimistic, can-do guy. That’s how he built the BCO from scratch in the past 10 years...
What they do
If variety is the spice of life, then the music that Laurie and Katelyn Shook (Shook Twins) make is very spicy. Their early albums have included everything from tales about robot love to near Biblical levels of flooding, and their live shows feature beatboxing, ...
