Music

New label, new concept

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Dani Filth, frontman of Cradle Of Filth, made himself a promise after writing the latest in a series of concept albums with the group’s 2008 CD, Godspeed on the Devil’s Thunder...

New program, old favorites

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Hilary Hahn wanted to be a river guide...

Slideshow: Pendulum at the Ogden

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Boulder Weekly's Jules Kueffer was at the Ogden Theater last night checking out the Pendulum show. Check out the pics below.

Social Distortion’s latest will anger mal-adjusted fogies, please well-adjusted ones and...

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Social Distortion’s latest, Hard Times and Nursery Rhymes, is a maturity test of sorts. After all, Social D has been playing its unique brand of hard luck punk rock since the early 1980s. Give any band — let alone a punk band — 30 years, and they’re either going to ...

Drum and bass and metal is massive

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Pendulum is, in one UK-inflected word, massive. So massive that the rock-electro hybrid, consisting of three core members and three touring live musicians, will spend nearly every day of February splitting up across the globe to facilitate heavy-hitting live shows in...

Aural orgy

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While most of America was dealing chips and cracking cold ones in anticipation of the Super Bowl last Sunday, DeVotchKa’s Nick Urata was at home, catching his breath from an afternoon band rehearsal. The iconoclastic Denver quartet had a Valentine’s gig coming up — ...

Digging in the vaults

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Pasadena´s Jet Propulsion Laboratory is not usual résumé material for orchestral maestros. But Bahman Saless, who leads the Boulder Chamber Orchestra (BCO) in concerts Friday, Feb. 11, and Saturday, Feb. 12, is not your usual maestro...

Decemberists inspire awe at Boulder Theater

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Despite their baroque, anti-war, liberal, Portlandian, eastern-European, Shakespearian, English romantic influences, The Decemberists are, at heart, an American band. Something about hating Los Angeles and longing for the life of an expatriate speaks to our national ...

George Clinton rocks the funk out

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Always a great show, George Clinton and the P-Funk All-Stars rocked the Fillmore Auditorium last weekend. Check out the pics below.

From the hills (kind of)

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They don’t need drums. They don’t need bass. Sparse, gentle acoustic guitar appears now and then, but on many of their songs the three young, honey-voiced members of the new Vermont alt-folk trio Mountain Man use no musical accompaniment whatsoever. The result is ...

Career change

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Plenty of young musicians decide to put college on hold to take a shot at having a career writing songs and performing...

Ballet with wings

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What began as a coincidence has become a ballet. After being serendipitously featured together in both Westword and 5280 magazines, Denver band Paper Bird and Ballet Nouveau Colorado have joined forces to create “Carry On,” a full-length, multimedia performance ...