Music

Big Richard energy

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Boulder's bluegrass babes are headed to Telluride

A bigger God

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If Joel Ansett’s 2019 album, A Place I Knew Before, was an ode to searching — for meaning, for forgiveness, for peace — then...

Albums on the Hill is the last independent music store

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Take a trip to Albums on the Hill before it’s too late...

‘Weird Al’ Yankovic talks about digging into the deep cuts for...

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Between the song parodies, his corny-yet-lovable sense of humor and a quasi-nerdy affection for the accordion, it could have been easy to dismiss “Weird...

True love and music

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Nicki Bluhm has a lot going for her. Her country-rock vocals recall the rootsy strut of Linda Ronstadt, while sweet and smooth like a crème brûlée. Her guitarist/husband Tim Bluhm is leader of longtime Bay Area indie-folk icons The Mother Hips, providing a built-...

Christmas music through the centuries

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Tired yet of “Frosty,” “White Christmas” and “Jingle Bells...

REVIEW, SLIDESHOW: Amon Tobin at Boulder Theater, Oct. 18

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Bravo, Amon Tobin. That is how you put on a transcendental light show. I feel like I just witnessed Berlioz conducting his Symphonie Fantastique.The ISAM installation is a gorgeous and unprecedented display of technological mastery featuring Amon Tobin. With Tobin ...

‘Fantastique’ opening

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Boulder’s Colorado Music Festival (CMF) opens its 2016 season June 30 at Chautauqua Auditorium, and no one is more excited than music director Jean-Marie...

Missy Raines is thundering into Boulder

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As a kid in the 1970s, Missy Raines didn’t have a lot of female bluegrass role models. “I come from a genre that, up until...

Found Sounds: March 2024

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In like a lion, out like a lamb — March music releases brought a range of big feelings to our quiet foothills hamlet. From...

Yeats and beyond

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Mike Scott has been heading up The Waterboys for three decades now, with plenty of the usual rock band personnel turnover to be expected of an enterprise this well-tenured, but his latest songwriting collaborator won’t be joining him on the road on his current tour. ...

World music artist Chris Berry goes digital

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Ten years ago, musician Chris Berry found himself narrowly escaping death in Zimbabwe. He was the lead singer of the massively popular Zimbabwean band Panjea and was trying to figure out a way to break the band in the United States. That is until Zimbabwean president...