By Adam Perry - Apr. 17, 2024

Record setter

Martin Banks fell in love with records through DJing. More than two decades later, the 44-year-old computer programmer from Birmingham, England, opened his tiny Vinyl Café record shop in Longmont...

By Boulder Weekly Staff - Apr. 10, 2024

Concerts: April 11-18

ON THE BILL: Following last fall’s sold-out show in Boulder, The Mountain Goats return to the Front Range for a two-night stint with celebrated Nashville singer-songwriter Katy Kirby at the Gothic...

By Justin Criado - Apr. 10, 2024

Get real

Katie Pruitt wears her heart on her sleeve, and you can hear it beat in her music. Even after releasing two deeply personal records, the 30-year-old singer-songwriter from Atlanta is...

By Jezy J. Gray - Apr. 10, 2024

Kin folk

Travis Albright took a leap when he launched the Bluebird Music Festival six years ago, and it paid off. Since 2018, the founder of the local youth-focused nonprofit Future Arts...

By Jezy J. Gray - Apr. 10, 2024

In living color

In the music video for “Changes,” the fourth single from her verdant new double album Proof of Life, Joy Oladokun casts her fishing line on a calm country lake as...

By Lauren Hill - Apr. 3, 2024

Camp royalty

It’s Chappell Roan’s sparkly, glitzed-out world, and we’re just living in it — that is, if you were lucky enough to score tickets to her headline tour. The rising pop...

By Kelly Dean Hansen - Apr. 3, 2024

Final bow

Editor’s note: This performance has been rescheduled for 4 p.m. on Sunday, May 5. Cynthia Katsarelis, music director and founder of Boulder-based Pro Musica Colorado Chamber Orchestra, says the organization of...

By Boulder Weekly Staff - Apr. 3, 2024

Concerts: April 4-11

Colorado gothabilly cow-punk pioneers Slim Cessna’s Auto Club make their way to the Longmont Museum’s Stewart Auditorium on April 4. The show is presented in conjunction with the ongoing exhibition, Picturing the West: Masterworks...

By Boulder Weekly Staff - Apr. 3, 2024

Found Sounds: March 2024

In like a lion, out like a lamb — March music releases brought a range of big feelings to our quiet foothills hamlet. From the country-fried tenderness of Waxahatchee to...

By Kaylee Harter - Mar. 27, 2024

Older and wiser

Big, existential question marks have always punctuated Indigo De Souza’s music — and she’s starting to make peace with the fact that most of them don’t have answers.  “Just being alive...

By Justin Criado - Mar. 27, 2024

Songs for the seeds

The chances of being struck by lightning once in a lifetime are one in 15,300. For reference, approximately 2,000 people worldwide are hit every year, including 270 in the U.S....

By Boulder Weekly Staff - Mar. 27, 2024

Concerts: March 28-April 4

ON THE BILL: Front Range indie-rock trio Blankslate returns to Boulder with fellow locals Bleak Mystique and Telecine for a free show at Trident on March 29. The band performs...

By Boulder Weekly Staff - Mar. 20, 2024

Concerts: March 21-28

ON THE BILL: Singer-songwriter Katherine “KP” Paul brings her celebrated Black Belt Eagle Scout project from the ancestral homelands of her Swinomish Indian Tribal Community in Washington to Denver’s Globe...

By Justin Criado - Mar. 19, 2024

Get it faster

The Strokes wrecked rock ’n’ roll, if you ask Esteban Flores.  The 31-year-old Chicano artist behind the music project Slow Joy makes this passing claim while chatting about his upcoming...

By Boulder Weekly Staff - Mar. 13, 2024

Concerts: March 14-21

ON THE BILL: BoCo instrumental psychonauts Prairiewolf bring their spacey fusion of cosmic country, ambient Americana and psychedelic easy-listening to Globe Hall in support of Color Green and Rosali on...

By Kelly Dean Hansen - Mar. 13, 2024

The guy at the gates

Ray Chen doesn’t define success by artistic accomplishments alone, although they are many.  The violinist — born in Taiwan and raised in Australia — won the 2008 International Yehudi Menuhin...

By Christopher Piercy - Mar. 13, 2024

Past lives

The only constant is change. Just ask California singer-songwriter Chelsea Wolfe, whose seventh studio album She Reaches Out to She Reaches Out to She marks an inflection point in a...

By Boulder Weekly Staff - Mar. 6, 2024

Concerts: March 7-14

ON THE BILL: Canadian indie-rock royalty Dan Bejar brings his critically lauded Destroyer project to the Front Range for a special solo performance at the Marquis Theater on March 9....

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