Music

At the altar of Divine Fits

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What do you do when you finally make it? Most artists are perpetually scraping by and innovating just to get by, and when you finally break through that barrier and find yourself no longer a struggling artist but a successful one, where do you go from there...

Mike Dillon’s elegant chaos

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We’re not sure who observed once that “timing is everything,” probably someone somewhere whose timing sucked at exactly the wrong juncture, but Mike Dillon’s timing is pretty good. Not just because he’s a drummer/percussionist/vibraphonist — with a resume that ...

Christmas music through the centuries

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Tired yet of “Frosty,” “White Christmas” and “Jingle Bells...

Drink in more culture with Opera on Tap

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A dozen opera singers walk into a bar...

Filling the gap between Medeski, Martin and Wood

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Bassist Chris Wood was taking some midday chill time in Athens, Ga., when we caught up to him last weekend, cooling his heels before his gig that night with The Wood Brothers band, his six-year project with his brother, guitarist and singer Oliver. The Wood Brothers ...

Killswitch Engage is looking back to look forward

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This November and December Killswitch Engage is spending a month looking back at a key point in its career, marking the 10-year anniversary of the release of the band’s second album, Alive Or Just Breathing...

KBCO´s newest Studio C album a holiday surprise

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Every holiday season, KBCO releases its famed Studio C album. Since 1991, the radio station has released compilations of performances done by touring musicians who stop by the station’s studio and donated the proceeds to charity. It has become a type of local holiday...

Rah Rah’s new album deserves cheers

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I don’t know much about Saskatchewan, but judging from its general flatness and its central location, I imagine it must be Canada’s super-polite version of the Kansas- Nebraska area, just with a different accent and more snow...

Chances are you like it

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Why do the chips fall where they may...

The education of Richard Marx

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For a large segment of the pop-music audience who graduated from the waning days of MTV video dominance, Richard Marx, the Chicago-bred singer/songwriter/multi-instrumentalist, will probably be forever associated with a lengthy catalog of late ’80s and ’90s hits, ...

Out with a flash for Boulder Outlook

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The Boulder Outlook Hotel has won the Blues Foundation’s 2013 Keeping the Blues Alive award for a club — the only recipient in a nationwide contest. It’s bittersweet news, since by 2014, the hotel will most likely be demolished and converted into student housing...

Boulder Chamber Orchestra seeks harmony via alchemy

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If you mix the right ingredients, you will get pure gold...