By Jezy J. Gray - April 10,2024

In living color

In the music video for “Changes,” the fourth single from her verdant new double album Proof of Life, Joy Oladokun casts her fishing line on a calm country lake as...

By Lauren Hill - April 3,2024

Camp royalty

It’s Chappell Roan’s sparkly, glitzed-out world, and we’re just living in it — that is, if you were lucky enough to score tickets to her headline tour. The rising pop...

By Kelly Dean Hansen - April 3,2024

Final bow

Editor’s note: This performance has been rescheduled for 4 p.m. on Sunday, May 5. Cynthia Katsarelis, music director and founder of Boulder-based Pro Musica Colorado Chamber Orchestra, says the organization of...

By Boulder Weekly Staff - April 3,2024

Concerts: April 4-11

Colorado gothabilly cow-punk pioneers Slim Cessna’s Auto Club make their way to the Longmont Museum’s Stewart Auditorium on April 4. The show is presented in conjunction with the ongoing exhibition, Picturing the West: Masterworks...

By Boulder Weekly Staff - April 3,2024

Found Sounds: March 2024

In like a lion, out like a lamb — March music releases brought a range of big feelings to our quiet foothills hamlet. From the country-fried tenderness of Waxahatchee to...

By Kaylee Harter - March 27,2024

Older and wiser

Big, existential question marks have always punctuated Indigo De Souza’s music — and she’s starting to make peace with the fact that most of them don’t have answers.  “Just being alive...

By Justin Criado - March 27,2024

Songs for the seeds

The chances of being struck by lightning once in a lifetime are one in 15,300. For reference, approximately 2,000 people worldwide are hit every year, including 270 in the U.S....

By Boulder Weekly Staff - March 27,2024

Concerts: March 28-April 4

ON THE BILL: Front Range indie-rock trio Blankslate returns to Boulder with fellow locals Bleak Mystique and Telecine for a free show at Trident on March 29. The band performs...

By Boulder Weekly Staff - March 20,2024

Concerts: March 21-28

ON THE BILL: Singer-songwriter Katherine “KP” Paul brings her celebrated Black Belt Eagle Scout project from the ancestral homelands of her Swinomish Indian Tribal Community in Washington to Denver’s Globe...

By Justin Criado - March 19,2024

Get it faster

The Strokes wrecked rock ’n’ roll, if you ask Esteban Flores.  The 31-year-old Chicano artist behind the music project Slow Joy makes this passing claim while chatting about his upcoming...

By Boulder Weekly Staff - March 13,2024

Concerts: March 14-21

ON THE BILL: BoCo instrumental psychonauts Prairiewolf bring their spacey fusion of cosmic country, ambient Americana and psychedelic easy-listening to Globe Hall in support of Color Green and Rosali on...

By Kelly Dean Hansen - March 13,2024

The guy at the gates

Ray Chen doesn’t define success by artistic accomplishments alone, although they are many.  The violinist — born in Taiwan and raised in Australia — won the 2008 International Yehudi Menuhin...

By Christopher Piercy - March 13,2024

Past lives

The only constant is change. Just ask California singer-songwriter Chelsea Wolfe, whose seventh studio album She Reaches Out to She Reaches Out to She marks an inflection point in a...

By Boulder Weekly Staff - March 6,2024

Concerts: March 7-14

ON THE BILL: Canadian indie-rock royalty Dan Bejar brings his critically lauded Destroyer project to the Front Range for a special solo performance at the Marquis Theater on March 9....

By Jeremy Duke - March 6,2024

‘Strong and growing’

Since forming in 2022, Oklahoma City’s Free 4 All has been busy. The five-piece hardcore band delivered three releases last year, playing dozens of local and regional shows and developing...

By Boulder Weekly Staff - February 28,2024

Concerts: Feb. 29-March 7

ON THE BILL: Los Angeles singer-songwriter Clementine Creevy brings her grunge-tinged Cherry Glazerr project to the Front Range for a March 6 gig at Bluebird Theater with Kentucky sophisti-pop trio...

By Boulder Weekly Staff - February 28,2024

Found Sounds: February 2024

Sound hounds, rejoice! We’re back with your monthly roundup of the bestselling new releases at Paradise Found Records & Music (1646 Pearl St.) Below you’ll find the definitive ranking of...

By Kelly Dean Hansen - February 28,2024

Viola vibes

Richard O’Neill moved from southern California to join CU Boulder’s resident Takács Quartet as its new violist in June 2020. Arriving when he did, with travel limited by the pandemic,...

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