Email Author Michael Roberts

Awards

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

  "The Rocky Mountain News is Going Down"

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2004 Stories by Michael Roberts

• The Message

  published August 12, 2004

  On a recent episode of HBO's Real Time, comic Bill Maher suggested that the young woman who accuses basketballer Kobe Bryant... More >>

• Crunked Up

  published August 12, 2004

  Jonathan Smith, aka Lil Jon, can recognize an opportunity when he sees one. Consider his reaction to a routine by skit-master Dave Chappelle,... More >>

• My Chemical Romance

  published August 12, 2004

  As a movement, emo is notably easy to ridicule. After all, its practitioners tend to be self-conscious, self-pitying, self-loathing and... More >>

• Tyfoid Mary

  published August 12, 2004

  From a marketing standpoint, Tyfoid Mary's got a lot of things going for it, including a pun-friendly name and bandmembers who fit snugly within... More >>

• Mogwai

  published August 12, 2004

  In the context of the Curiosa Festival, an apparent attempt to build an Ozzfest-like event around the nostalgia-fueled rediscovery of Robert... More >>

• For Better or Curse

  published August 5, 2004

  For Cat Collins, program director of hip-hop heavy KS-107.5, figuring out which words his station can air isn't as easy as it used to be.... More >>

• Stockholm Syndrome

  published August 5, 2004

  In Widespread Panic, bassist Dave Schools provides a bottom to ditties that sometimes seem as if they'll never end. Stockholm Syndrome (below),... More >>

• Badly Drawn Boy

  published August 5, 2004

  Consider the sad fate of the typical cult artist. He puts out one consistently enjoyable disc after another, earning positive reviews on each... More >>

• The Pirate Sygnl

  published August 5, 2004

  Far too many MCs use a lot of syllables to say virtually nothing. Fortunately, Bdbeyond and Yonnas, the Pirate Sygnl's main mouthpieces, are... More >>

• The Message

  published July 29, 2004

  Back in the era when information traveled at a rather leisurely pace, news sources could usually afford to wait for publications to correct errors... More >>

• Greg Osby

  published July 29, 2004

  Alto saxophonist Greg Osby is a legitimate rarity in jazz: a major-label artist who makes challenging music. Public was cut live at... More >>

• Carrier

  published July 29, 2004

  Marc Benning earned his name in the underground with 34 Satellite, a band that's still afloat. But after hooking up with a pair of veterans from... More >>

• Camper Van Beethoven

  published July 29, 2004

  It's a familiar story. Indie band builds rabid following for its distinctively weird music; popularity leads to a major-label contract; demands... More >>

• Follow That Story

  published July 22, 2004

  Sometimes Congressman Tom Tancredo is the most predictable of politicians. On other occasions, he's anything but. In the year since Tancredo... More >>

• The Message

  published July 22, 2004

  David Parker has worked as the Boulder Daily Camera's online editor for four years, so it's more than a little surprising to hear... More >>

• Various artists

  published July 22, 2004

  Although North Carolina's Merge Records has accomplished a lot during its existence, the packaging of this irresistible three-CD anniversary... More >>

• pH10

  published July 22, 2004

  The inimitable Recone Helmut, who put his stamp on Denver music via his current combo and its predecessor, LD-50, is planning at least a temporary... More >>

• The Thrills

  published July 22, 2004

  Imitation is generally a stone drag -- unless, that is, the impression allows observers to process something original but time-worn in a new and... More >>

• Idiot's Delight

  published July 22, 2004

  A book called The Complete Idiot's Guide to Starting a Band has the sound of a great gag gift -- and if someone purchases it for... More >>

• I Fathered a Terror Suspect

  published July 15, 2004

  I doubt that many people would see my fifteen-year-old son, Nick, as a threat to national security. Granted, he's a pretty big guy -- just over... More >>

• The Message

  published July 15, 2004

  Media consumers who complain about the dearth of good news may change their tune after John Elway's enshrinement in the Pro Football Hall... More >>

• Brandy

  published July 15, 2004

  If memory serves, Aaliyah is dead -- killed in what appears to have been one of the most preventable plane crashes ever. So it's something of a... More >>

• Mission19

  published July 15, 2004

  The term "college rock" implies that the post-high school educational experience is the same for most Americans, which couldn't be further from... More >>

• Jessica Simpson

  published July 15, 2004

  In a review of a November 1999 Ricky Martin appearance at the Pepsi Center, I described opening act Jessica Simpson, whose debut disc had been... More >>

• Etched in Stone

  published July 15, 2004

  FRI, 7/16 "I became an architect because my girlfriend told me she wouldn't marry a forest ranger," recalls University of Denver... More >>