By Jezy J. Gray - Aug. 21, 2024

Everything is icing

Molly Rankin of Alvvays on saying no, honoring her influences and marking 10 years as power-pop royalty

By Boulder Weekly Staff - Aug. 14, 2024

Concerts: Aug. 15-21

Can't-miss live music coming to the Front Range this week

By Alan Sculley - Aug. 12, 2024

Soundtrack to your life

The latest project from Shakey Graves is a choose-your-own-adventure story.  Following the release of his fourth album Movie of the Week, the celebrated folk-rock artist — whose given name is...

By Boulder Weekly Staff - Aug. 7, 2024

Concerts: Aug. 8-15

ON THE BILL: Festival season continues on the Front Range with the return of Rocky Mountain Folks Festival, Aug. 9-11 at Planet Bluegrass in Lyons. Psych-soul royalty Brittany Howard headlines...

By Justin Criado - Aug. 7, 2024

Call it what you want

The sound of Boulder County quintet Card Catalog is as varied as the name suggests. After establishing a bluesy baseline with their 2019 debut album, Push, this year’s Snow Moon...

By Justin Criado - Aug. 6, 2024

‘Real magic’

Joss Stone is just as surprised as anyone that she’s still making music after more than 20 years. The 37-year-old English R&B singer unexpectedly entered the limelight at age 13...

By Boulder Weekly Staff - Jul. 31, 2024

Found Sounds: July 2024

As we pause for a quick beat between RockyGrass and Folks Fest during another miraculous summer festival season, your fellow music freaks are back with the latest roundup of the...

By Boulder Weekly Staff - Jul. 31, 2024

Concerts: Aug. 1-8

Heartland art-rock storyteller Kevin Morby returns to the Front Range for an opening-slot show with Guster and the Colorado Symphony at Red Rocks Park and Amphitheatre. The artist performs in...

By Jezy J. Gray - Jul. 31, 2024

Smiley face summer :)

When the chorus breaks on the bright and sunny new single from The Japanese House, singer-songwriter Amber Bain plants both feet in her own good feelings. She’s on a plane...

By Boulder Weekly Staff - Jul. 24, 2024

Concerts: July 25 through Aug. 1

The 52nd annual RockyGrass Festival returns to Planet Bluegrass in Lyons for another round of down-home jams on the banks of the North St. Vrain. Featuring locals like the Cody...

By L. Kent Wolgamott - Jul. 24, 2024

Like a rolling stone

When it comes to making music, Margo Price is a student of history who doesn’t play by the book. Take for example the Nashville Americana star’s 2016 album Midwest Farmer’s...

By Boulder Weekly Staff - Jul. 17, 2024

Concerts: July 18-24

Chicago darlings Ratboys bring their lived-in blend of power-pop and country-rock to Mission Ballroom in support of indie veterans The Decemberists. The rising quartet returns to the Front Range on...

By Zoe Jennings - Jul. 17, 2024

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 pulled it off. But mandolin player...

By Ana Gavrilovska - Jul. 9, 2024

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 of asserting itself. To wit: the...

By Justin Criado - Jul. 9, 2024

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 by the early 2000s, as dozens...

By Kelly Dean Hansen - Jul. 2, 2024

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 premier classical music events — has traditionally...

By Boulder Weekly Staff - Jul. 1, 2024

Found Sounds: June 2024

Brat Girl 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 new vinyl releases at Paradise Found...

By Jezy J. Gray - Jun. 26, 2024

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 a famously subjective metric for identifying pornography...

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