AltWeeklies Wire
Can We Save the Music Industry? Do We Want To?new
If you are the type of person who cares passionately about the future of music in America, this is one of the most exciting and frightening decades in modern history.
Boulder Weekly |
Dale Bridges |
01-05-2009 |
Music
Colorado Might Have the Only Anime-Focused Ensemble in the Countrynew
The Symphonic Anime Orchestra may very well be the only group devoted entirely to playing music from anime and Japanese video games.
Boulder Weekly |
Dylan Otto Krider |
12-30-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Stewart Erlich of WadiRum Finds His Voicenew
Spending time alone in the desert has long been thought to be a spiritual experience. The Jews wandered for 40 years. Jesus endured the devil for 40 days and nights. In Stewart Erlich's case, it was more like a long weekend with a nasty bout of the stomach flu, but life altering, nonetheless.
Boulder Weekly |
Dylan Otto Krider |
12-11-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Ian MacKaye is Taking Questions and Delivering Answersnew
MacKaye's current solo tour isn't musical, and true to form, it breaks with convention. He's dropping by various bookstores, high schools and colleges for Q&A sessions, or, as he calls them, "public interviews."
Boulder Weekly |
Elliott Johnston |
11-17-2008 |
Music
Why is Boulder Chamber Orchestra Filled with Scientists?new
Over 30 percent of the Boulder Chamber Orchestra have backgrounds in the hard sciences. What's up with that?
Boulder Weekly |
Dylan Otto Krider |
10-23-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Jolie Holland Transitions from Musician to Iconnew
Holland's new album The Living And the Dead (her first to really utilize a producer) is so good that everything that came before it seems like a pleasurable blur, although all of her previous, more immediately folky work is deservedly acclaimed and worth checking out in earnest.
Boulder Weekly |
Arjuna Orland |
10-20-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Being John Lennonnew
Yoko Ono discusses the artistic life of John Lennon and his evolution as an icon.
Boulder Weekly |
Ben Corbett |
09-29-2008 |
Music
RockyGrass Festival Breaks Free from Tradition While Staying True to its Rootsnew
Compared to its relative Telluride Bluegrass Festival, RockyGrass is a slightly smaller, more traditional affair. Traditional, that is, in a vague sense. In its 36th year, RockyGrass has grown to a three-day festival that spans more than a century of American roots music, from the banjo and mandolin songs with which we're most familiar to 21st century acoustic songwriting.
Boulder Weekly |
Margaret Hair |
07-28-2008 |
Music
Stevie Wonder on the Death of Ray Charles and His Hopes for Barack Obamanew
His 2007 U.S. tour, A Wonder Summer's Night, is his first broad-based national tour in over a decade, inspired by the 2006 death of his mother, Lula Mae Hardaway, a sharecropper's daughter born in Alabama in 1930.
Boulder Weekly |
Ben Corbett |
06-30-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
The Telluride Bluegrass Festival Celebrates 35 Years of Pickin' and Swingin'new
The granddaddy of summertime festivals has continued to be one of the most remarkable celebrations of uniquely American music. There are few places where pop stars such as Barenaked Ladies share the same bill as Bela Fleck and Jerry Douglas.
Boulder Weekly |
Andy Stonehouse |
06-16-2008 |
Concerts
Folk Gets Punkednew
Not many folk musicians could gain local favor by playing amongst the punk and metal mainstays of Colorado, but the Denver-based jazz-folk outfit Paper Bird has been able to pull it off.
Boulder Weekly |
Josie Dembiczak |
02-04-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Expect Dance Party Vibenew
Gabe Saporta feels because Cobra Starship had been touring for most of the year, it had developed a band sound that did not exist when he wrote the first CD. And indeed ¡Viva La Cobra! is stronger, more cohesive than the first album.
Boulder Weekly |
Alan Sculley |
02-04-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Cobra Starship, ¡Viva La Cobra!
Boys Like Girls Were Born to be Rock Starsnew
The band has slowly, but surely, been making a name for itself over the past two years -- now its heading out on its first headlining tour.
Boulder Weekly |
Alan Sculley |
11-12-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Boys Like Girls
Annie Lennox Combines Pop Magic and Political Purposenew
Lennox has created the most personal and revealing music of her career on her two most recent albums.
Boulder Weekly |
Alan Sculley |
10-15-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Annie Lennox
They are Definitely Giantsnew
John Flansburgh bares his soul and the little birdhouse that lies within.
Boulder Weekly |
Dave Kirby |
09-24-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: They Might Be Giants
