It could well be that Nautical Mile’s EP release at the Fox Theatre this weekend represents a watershed moment — the young band’s second release, headlining a premiere venue among well-regarded local bands, secure in its lineup and coasting on a decent club following and critical buzz.

If the months-long Colorado Music Festival (CMF) were a gourmet restaurant, the spécialité de la maison would be the mini-festival that each year occupies a central place in the schedule. In past years, the specialty has been either a composer (Beethoven, Brahms) or a genre (piano concertos). This year it is the virtuoso violin.

Red Rocks Amphitheatre is about to host a slam that will leave electronic music fans, and their glowsticks, spinning. The Glitch Mob is coming to take over with an all-star lineup Saturday, July 2, bringing together friends and sounds that range from psy-dub to post-rock.

A piece aired a couple of months ago on NPR about Steely Dan’s legendary sound engineer, Roger Nichols, who had just passed away from cancer. Michele Norris interviewed Donald Fagen about Nichols and his storied inventiveness, including the tale of Walter Becker and Fagen struggling with a drum track for Gaucho’s “Hey Nineteen” and challenging Nichols to come up with a mechanized drum system to outline the beat. Which, in a few weeks’ time, Nichols did, and the dry, relaxed-but-airtight snare line remains intact on the tune 30 years later.

Michael Christie knows what he wants at Boulder’s Colorado Music Festival (CMF). “Variety is most important,” says the festival’s music director. “What we do is look off the beaten track and then throw in some element that’s surprising.”

Sometimes all you can do is marvel at someone’s dumb luck, blessed fortune, or whatever you want to call it. Like the guy who wins the lottery because he picked one or two of the right numbers by mistake, the woman who hits the jackpot on her first pull on a slot machine after you spend three hours losing money on it, or the unknown actor who lands a highly coveted role in a film just because some producer happened to see him at the right place at the right time. Joy Williams is one half of the popular band The Civil Wars, and the story of how she came to be in the band — as well as that of bandmate John Paul White — is one of those stories.

Early performances of a work still not finished are obviously beneficial to composers. They serve much the same purpose as out-of-town tryouts for Broadway shows: a chance to evaluate the opera's effectiveness and make any necessary changes before it is considered finished.

Black Lips make often chaotic, always entertaining, never-heard-on-the-radio, “flower punk” garage rock. So what were they thinking working with glitter-pop producer Mark Ronson?

It would align with what we know about Conn - the former bandleader of Boulder's Cajun barburner franchise Gris Gris from the early '80s who left Boulder to seek brighter lights and bigger stages in L.A.

To our great disappointment, Denver post-rock group Woodsman aren’t whittling sticks in a log cabin when Boulder Weekly reaches guitarist Trevor Peterson by phone. At the first stop of their current tour, the group finds themselves in the rather plush Hotel Congress in Tuscon, Ariz., a combination hotel/club that Peterson describes on Twitter as “swanksville.”