Music

Smashing Pumpkins return

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Smashing Pumpkins are considered to be one of the seminal rock ’n’ roll groups, whose top-charting albums in the ’90s paved the way for many bands today. Billy Corgan, the frontman and only remaining original member, reformed the band in 2007 and released Zeitgeist, ...

Head For The Hills is rising

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By just about any measure, Head for the Hills (H4TH) has had a pretty solid 2011. The Fort Collins-founded newgrass quartet unleashed a solid and surprising long-player last year, winning their second consecutive “Best Bluegrass Band” award from Westword copping some...

Blog bands in Neverland

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The Lost Boys of Neverland occupy their days by living in the woods, harassing washed-up pirates, hanging out with mermaids, and occasionally scrapping with the natives before reconciling over a peace pipe. They generally did and said the things that a mob of ...

SLIDESHOW: Cut Copy and Washed Out at the Ogden Theatre, Oct....

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Boulder Weekly's Jules Kueffer was at the Cut Copy show at the Ogden Theatre on Oct. 4. Enjoy a slideshow from the night's events.

REVIEW: Kyuss Lives! w/The Sword at Summit Music Hall

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Kyuss was a stoner-metal sludge band that made four albums between 1991 and 1995. The band is known as the first musical collaboration between guitarist Josh Homme and bassist Nick Oliveri, who would later found Queens of the Stone Age. Though Kyuss’ music went ...

SLIDESHOW: Furthur at Red Rocks, Sept. 30

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Boulder Weekly's Jeremy Williams was at the Furthur concert this past Friday. Check out his pics.

The modern musical gentlemen

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"We´re just excited to show up and show people who we are,” David Macklovitch, a.k.a. Dave 1 of Chromeo, says about the duo’s first show in Boulder. “Smile, play the songs, have some banter, hear what a bunch of screaming fans in Boulder sounds like — that’s just ...

Ludwig’s everywhere

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It´s a good week for Beethoven...

Rap with strings attached

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I haven’t done the research on this, but I don’t imagine Vivaldi’s “Spring” concerto is the ringback song on your average rapper’s cell phone.But call Jordan Polovina and you’ll see pretty quickly why he and the rest of Whiskey Blanket are not your average rappers....

Deep in the grain

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Talking with guitarist/songwriter Oliver Wood about his collaboration with brother Chris Wood last week, we couldn’t help but summon the legacy of (in)famous brother gigs in pop music history. The Davies … the Gallaghers … the Knopflers … Well, OK, it was the knock...

Sweet Slumgum

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Trevor Anderies, one-fourth of the Los Angeles-based avant-garde jazz group Slumgum, sees the band’s current tour through Colorado as a trip into the past. The drummer was born in Denver and grew up in Castle Rock, studying swing techniques with area musicians, and ...

Start your strings

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Bang! The classical music season is off and running in Boulder...