Email Author Michael Roberts

Awards

• 2009 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published December 11, 2008

  "The Rocky Mountain News is Going Down"

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2002 Stories by Michael Roberts

• What's Left?

  published October 3, 2002

  The Denver Post was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for its treatment of the Columbine High School shootings and wound up as the lead dog in a... More >>

• A Different Qwest

  published October 3, 2002

  So you think you have a stressful career? Consider Kelly, who makes his living under his given name as a senior attorney in the legal-affairs... More >>

• Division of Laura Lee

  published October 3, 2002

  Reviewers seldom gush over discs that remind them of albums made by lousy artists from the past; hence the dearth of notices praising Shakira for... More >>

• Hot Stuff

  published September 26, 2002

  Before long, Channel 2 will begin sending out a digital TV signal across Denver -- good news for the relative handful of local viewers who have... More >>

• This Year's Model

  published September 26, 2002

  Music-business decision-makers realize that the pop bubble is apt to burst soon -- and most of them are touting post-indie rock as its probable... More >>

• Styles, Slum Village and Clipse

  published September 26, 2002

  At this point in its development, hip-hop is all about the marketing. Crossing over to the pop side of town is incredibly lucrative, but doing so... More >>

• Not Kinder, Not Gentler

  published September 19, 2002

  Walt DeHaven, the new vice president and general manager at Channel 4, doesn't mind sprinkling his no-nonsense reputation with a little... More >>

• Multi-Taskers

  published September 19, 2002

  If there's anything that irritates Fred Sargolini, half of the forward-looking hip-hop/electro duo Ming & FS, it's artists who think they have to... More >>

• Non

  published September 19, 2002

  Boyd Rice is Denver's darkest iconoclast: A Web site devoted to his twisted oeuvre wasn't named More >>

• Tony Furtado

  published September 19, 2002

  String-man extraordinaire Tony Furtado kicks off his first effort for Boulder's What Are Records? imprint with "Oh Berta, Berta," a wholly... More >>

• Critic's Choice

  published September 19, 2002

  Denali -- which hits the 15th Street Tavern on Saturday, September 21, with Gogogo Airheart and Navy Girls, and joins Black Black Ocean and... More >>

• Getting Racked

  published September 12, 2002

  Darlene Cypser, chief executive officer for Go-Go Media, which publishes Go-Go, an entertainment biweekly, is very unhappy about the... More >>

• Chicago

  published September 12, 2002

  Ask anyone, of any age, to name the first album she or he purchased, and you can bet that the disc mentioned will be cool: a brilliant recording... More >>

• Distant Replay

  published September 5, 2002

  When the history of 21st-century journalism is compiled, the days and weeks immediately following the September 11 terrorist assaults may well be... More >>

• Good Sex, Bad Sex

  published August 29, 2002

  The current U.S. advertising climate is widely considered to be the chilliest in years -- maybe even decades. So it's just this side of startling... More >>

• Feelin' Skanky

  published August 29, 2002

  Reggae is a musical approach with a captivating history -- one whose less-publicized precursors and tangents are often as interesting as its more... More >>

• Minor Threat

  published August 22, 2002

  On August 8, news organizations in Denver received a fax topped with a grabby logo reading "Koleen Brooks: Defender of all that is... More >>

• Bringing It All Back Home

  published August 22, 2002

  Grand Junction, on Colorado's Western Slope, has numerous claims to fame. It's the largest community between Denver and Salt Lake City and, thanks... More >>

• New Found Glory

  published August 22, 2002

  Anyone who pays the slightest attention to popular music knows that punk rock hasn't been the typical nihilist's soundtrack of choice for many... More >>

• Youth of the Nation

  published August 15, 2002

  A radio station's success is determined not only by the number of ears listening at any given time, but by the ages of the people attached to... More >>

• Bruce Springsteen

  published August 15, 2002

  Perhaps the truest line ever written about Bruce Springsteen appeared in Village Voice scribe Robert Christgau's 1975 review of Born to... More >>

• Moore Than Before

  published August 8, 2002

  The editor position at the Denver Post isn't synonymous with long-term employment. Over the past decade, three men -- Gil Spencer,... More >>

• The Joy of Sections

  published August 8, 2002

  When Greg Moore was announced as the Denver Post's new editor ("Changing of the... More >>

• Red Hot Chili Peppers

  published August 8, 2002

  The word "mature" keeps cropping up in positive reviews of this disc --mature songwriting, mature arrangements, mature subject matter, mature... More >>

• Critic's Choice

  published August 8, 2002

  Golden is the most modest indie supergroup imaginable. The band, which appears on Tuesday, August 13, at the 15th Street Tavern alongside... More >>