Heather Nova, Friday, October 6, with Ben Folds Five, at the Mercury Cafe, has one of those voices that makes you forget everything else around you. On her current Columbia/Work CD, Oyster, Nova’s singing, which recalls both the belting of the Cranberries’ Dolores O’Riordan and the wailing of Sinead O’Connor,…

The members of Boulder’s Love Lies are performers first and foremost. But they’re also businessmen. As guitarist Duane Caraballo notes, “We’re one of the few bands that carries a briefcase and a guitar case.” Indeed, Caraballo and his associates (singer Christian Dicharry, bassist Jeff Lipton and drummer Donovan Stuart) know…

Thanks to a current tour and a new CD (New Dark Ages) on a new label (Boulder’s W.A.R.? imprint), the Radiators have been busier than ever–so busy, in fact, that the government has taken notice. “The IRS is on my back about my ’94 taxes, which I still haven’t filed,”…

In Boulder’s neohippie scene, there’s a thin line between playing original music and merely regurgitating a popular sound. However, the members of Aquarian Voodoo have found a way to skirt this problem–by doing both at once. The performers (lead singer/guitarist Chris Leonard, mandolinist/harmonica player Bill Browning, guitarist Chris Melia, drummer…