Music

Lightning crashes

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Lifelong musician and lyricist Jake Downey sat down next to Lauren Tyler at a party two years ago, guitar in hand, working through a...

From ‘the old country,’ with love

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The sounds filling Denver’s Mercury Café at the end of each month may come from Colorado musicians, but the traditions behind them traveled a...

‘Life’s so fun’

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When MUNA’s “Silk Chiffon” entered the world in late summer 2021, life was, in general, definitively not fun. But as society was preparing to...

‘Worth the wait’

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Of the many local performing arts heartaches stemming from the pandemic lockdown, few in the classical world stung quite like the cancellation of Gustav...

‘That still quiet place’

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Sisterhood can be a superpower. Just ask Natalie and younger twin siblings Allie and Meegan, who together make up indie-pop trio Joseph. For the...

‘No rules’

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It was a particularly shreddy lick in the Power Rangers theme song that made Paul DeHaven want to play guitar.  “I was like, ‘Mom, I...

Bark at the moon

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It was a full moon when the Boulder County trio known as Prairiewolf rolled tape on the first recording session for their self-titled debut...

Cue the strings

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With a career-long embrace of unlikely instruments like the theremin, sousaphone and bouzouki, Colorado folk outfit DeVotchKa has never been the sort of rock...

Be our guest

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After more than two decades fronting one of the most heralded power-pop acts of the century, Carl “A.C.” Newman of The New Pornographers finds...

Call of the wild

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Andy Thorn has always walked a fine line between tradition and experimentation. Even as a kid in bluegrass-obsessed North Carolina, watching banjo greats chop...

Search and rescue

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It was the release day of her new album, and Hannah Frances couldn’t stop crying. After a turbulent year of traveling and recording, the...

By a string

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Violinist Rachel Sliker grew up in Colorado Springs but has spent the last two decades in Boulder, where she branched out from the classical...