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 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 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....

By Jeremy Duke - Mar. 6, 2024

‘Strong and growing’

Since forming in 2022, Oklahoma City’s Free 4 All has been busy. The five-piece hardcore band delivered three releases last year, playing dozens of local and regional shows and developing...

By Boulder Weekly Staff - Feb. 28, 2024

Found Sounds: February 2024

Sound hounds, rejoice! We’re back with your monthly roundup of the bestselling new releases at Paradise Found Records & Music (1646 Pearl St.) Below you’ll find the definitive ranking of...

By Kelly Dean Hansen - Feb. 28, 2024

Viola vibes

Richard O’Neill moved from southern California to join CU Boulder’s resident Takács Quartet as its new violist in June 2020. Arriving when he did, with travel limited by the pandemic,...

By Justin Criado - Feb. 28, 2024

‘The truth is out there’

The story unfolding across Thom LaFond’s sophomore album, Lawless, wouldn’t feel out of place in a bizarro episode of The X-Files. “Basically, there’s an alien that comes to Earth and...

By Alan Sculley - Jan. 16, 2024

Dynamic dichotomy

Ella Williams, who makes music under the name Squirrel Flower, has always had a dichotomy to her music. Many of her songs could be described as indie folk, with lots...

By Jezy J. Gray - Jan. 3, 2024

Turning up ’24

It’s never too early to start planning your concert calendar for the year. That’s why Boulder Weekly is looking ahead to bring you a roundup of the best shows coming...

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