The Conference on World Affairs, much like the Colorado Shakespeare Festival and Colorado Music Festival, isn’t a once-a-year deal. No, the CWA has brought speakers and performers to Boulder outside of regular CWA season for just over a decade, the Sept. 8, 2010 installment looks … Read More →
Category Archives: Music
Folks Fest photos from Josh Mishell
If you missed Folks Fest and want to get a better sense of it, local designer/beer guy/hero Josh Mishell took a whole slew of photos — enough to split them into Day 1, Day 2 and Day 3 sets, anyway. And it’s just as I … Read More →
Louisville’s Lionel Young band rocks Blues & Greens at the Outlook
I have no good excuse for not hanging out at the Outlook more often for blues music. It’s a good time down there, as the Lionel Young Band demonstrates in this video from the weekend:
Phish returning to Colorado in October
It’s the moment some of you have been waiting for… Phish have scheduled three shows in Broomfield and the word got out to the Post: Internet message boards have been busy with rumors of the band’s quick return to the Rockies. Sure enough, Phish is … Read More →
Air Dubai &co. welcome students back in style
Dear students, Welcome back. Glad you had a good time at a concert some of us could hear, but couldn’t go to. But seriously, it looks like this was a pretty good Welcome Back show. If you went, let me hear about it.
Girls’ rock ‘n’ roll camp helps teens focus talents
The organizers of Girls Rock, a camp for girls who want to improve their skills at instruments, songwriting and performing, say that when they have coed classes, the girls tend to hang back. The girls say that being in a camp results in silly teenage … Read More →
The Samples’ reunion: Mile High Music Festival and beyond
If you’ve been around Boulder long enough, there’s a good chance you have a certain fondness for, or at least a vague awareness of, The Samples, one of the first bands to really break out of this town in the late ’80s and early ’90s. … Read More →
Punk night at Community Cycles 8/17
About a year ago, I went to my first DIY punk show in Boulder. The show was at Community Cycles and was made up of a bunch of bands who were into each other and into the night — very high energy, cool way to … Read More →
Radio 1190 apparently getting too many emails about scientists liking them
If it was my T-shirt, I’d be sending emails to people about this for years. Yes, we’ve seen the anti-gravity Mythbusters episode where one of the scientists is wearing one of our “The Ultimate Mix Tape” t-shirts. You don’t need to send us any more … Read More →
Cassie Taylor shows up in Denver mag — wrapped in plastic
Cassie Taylor, Boulder blueswoman and daughter of Otis Taylor, Boulder bluesman, turned up in the pages of August’s Denver Magazine wearing plastic wrap — and a lot of it. Photographer and designer Edwin Santa pushes fashion’s limits with unusual materials — think pretty in plastic … Read More →
Rocky Mountain Folks Festival turns 20 this weekend
Don’t even pretend you’re into folk music if this isn’t on your radar: Folks Fest is going down for its 20th time this weekend, and it’s full to the brim of classic names and new ones, too. Friday, Aug. 13 Songwriter Showcase Liz Longley Jonatha … Read More →
Boulder metal band Centimani thrashes at Rocky Mountain Goat Roast
Greeley got a heavy dose of metal at the Rocky Mountain Goat Roast this weekend, including some from Boulder’s own Centimani. Here’s a pretty excellent, short story on how the Rocky Mountain Goat Roast went: “Let’s keep the pit violent, come on!” yelled the lead … Read More →