Music
Soloists together onstage at last with the Boulder Philharmonic
Jennifer Frautschi and Erik Ruske rarely get to perform together.
The married couple are both highly successful musicians, but she plays the violin and he...
THE FEW, THE PROUD, THE MEMORABLE ALBUMS OF 2014
TAYLOR SWIFT, who says she looks at albums as “sort of statements,” has sold an awful lot of albums this year. The unabashedly pop (as opposed to country-pop, her previous focus) 1989 sold more than a million albums in its first week and has spent a total of 29 weeks...
Keep it simple
Bands are chemistry experiments, and the introduction of a couple new elements can change the mix in not readily apparent ways. Dr. Dog has been together for more than a dozen years and released six albums of widescreen psych-pop, redolent of hooks and rather ...
Leaving on a high note
We lead angelic lives,%u2028 Yet have a merry time of it besides. We dance and we spring,%u2028 We skip and we sing.%u2028 Saint Peter in heaven looks on...
Bayou burden
It's not the stuff on the TV Louisiana bluesman Tab Benoit’s singing about. Not the “may cause side effects,” hyper-disclaimered, check-with-your-doctor-first gel cap in the reassuringly pastel boxes...
Them Crooked Vultures eat Denver alive
Before I start describing Monday’s Them Crooked Vultures show, I think a little discussion of the group itself is in order. After all, some people (an unfortunate few) may not yet have had the privilege of hearing the self-titled disc from three of the most ...
Seizing the reins
The year 2010 was tough for many, but musically, Louisville singer-songwriter and coffee shop staple Jeremy Dion has been having a career year...
Intrigue and murder mystery wrapped up in a requiem
A reclusive count living in a remote castle...
‘This magic moment’
Lisa Siciliano has certainly grown up from the days when she first fell in love with music as a kid in Ohio — having...
Once a year on the prairie
Boulder’s orchestras like to present nature in their programming. In Kansas, they like to present their programming in nature.
Symphony in the Flint Hills is...
Time is the key
A mere four days before chatting over transatlantic phone lines with Jean-Michel Jarre, the French electronics master played a show at the iconic site known...
