Email Author Michael Roberts

Awards

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

  "The Rocky Mountain News is Going Down"

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2006 Stories by Michael Roberts

• Flaming Lips

  published April 6, 2006

  The Flaming Lips' latest was largely inspired by leader Wayne Coyne's extreme dislike for President Bush -- a fact that might have spoiled the fun... More >>

• Orbit Service

  published April 6, 2006

  Singer/guitarist Randall Frazier and his cohorts don't fit snugly within the confines of any identifiable Denver-music pigeonhole, and that's a... More >>

• Floetry

  published April 6, 2006

  The majority of artists regularly lumped into the neo-soul movement are more velvet than sandpaper, more Al Green than Wilson Pickett, and, in the... More >>

• Kittie

  published April 6, 2006

  In a 2001 interview with Westword, Morgan Lander, the then-teenage guitarist and lead shrieker for Canada's Kittie, an all-female... More >>

• Theory of Relativity

  published April 6, 2006

  John Ashton, who's directing a new production of Insignificance, doesn't much like Nicholas Roeg's 1985 film version of the play,... More >>

• Altitude Check

  published March 30, 2006

  In the nascent days of 5280, says editor and publisher Dan Brogan, the local dailies frequently publicized events pushed by the... More >>

• Burnin' Man

  published March 30, 2006

  Back in 2003, reggae crossover star Sean Paul Henriques was fined $34 for cursing on stage at a festival in his native Jamaica. The cost was... More >>

• Glenn Kotche

  published March 30, 2006

  Here's where we find out how adventurous Wilco fans really are. Kotche may be the band's percussionist, but he cuts his own path on... More >>

• Steep Canyon Rangers

  published March 30, 2006

  Approximately 73 million bands have formed at colleges over the years, and the vast majority of them fall into the rock or pop categories, with a... More >>

• Matchbook Romance

  published March 30, 2006

  For those of you who find the paint-by-numbers approach employed by far too many emo bands to be exceedingly dull, here's some good news: An... More >>

• Trading Places

  published March 16, 2006

  Is Ed Smith experiencing an identity crisis? Smith is the longtime entertainment editor of the Denver Post. However, a recent... More >>

• Different Strokes

  published March 16, 2006

  Some listeners adore them, and some abhor them -- but none can credibly deny that the Strokes have had a significant impact on this decade's... More >>

• Comfort Food

  published March 16, 2006

  Why don't worms have balls? Because they can't dance. As witticisms go, this one is awfully mediocre. So how did it wind up inspiring... More >>

• Juvenile

  published March 16, 2006

  In the past, New Orleans's Terius Gray, who's over thirty but still Juvenile, has cared more about coochie than about current events; "Back That... More >>

• The Warlocks

  published March 16, 2006

  The name "Warlocks" was rejected by two of rock's most celebrated acts: Members of the Grateful Dead and the Velvet Underground both used it... More >>

• Blowfly

  published March 16, 2006

  Whether they know it or not, every F-bombing hip-hop smut-mouth currently earning parental-advisory stickers owes a debt of filthitude to Clarence... More >>

• By Hart

  published March 9, 2006

  A few years back, former Colorado senator Gary Hart boldly waded into the blogosphere -- and before long, he was mired in cyber-muck.... More >>

• Rabbit Test

  published March 9, 2006

  Rilo Kiley frontwoman Jenny Lewis should be thrilled. After all, the February edition of Spin features a multi-page profile of her by... More >>

• Isobel Campbell and Mark Lanegan

  published March 9, 2006

  Mark Lanegan was once a major player on the rock scene, but that was a long time ago. Ask the average person about Screaming Trees, and he'll... More >>

• Stereolab

  published March 9, 2006

  At its peak, Stereolab was among the most distinctive combos on the planet. Throughout a succession of discs capped by 1996's unimpeachable... More >>

• Jackie-O Motherfucker

  published March 9, 2006

  Judging by the moniker under which he performs, Jackie-O Motherfucker leader Tom Greenwood isn't interested in impressing middlebrow music lovers... More >>

• Son Rise

  published March 2, 2006

  There are plenty of reasons why singer-songwriter Ben Taylor might seem cranky. Perhaps he doesn't like conducting interviews from his tour bus.... More >>

• Little Brother

  published March 2, 2006

  The men of Little Brother have set a difficult task for themselves -- to find an audience for intelligent tunes in a hip-hop world that celebrates... More >>

• Korn

  published March 2, 2006

  It's understandable that the men of Korn would be thinking about their bank accounts these days. There ain't many other first generation nu-metal... More >>

• Gay Caballeros

  published March 2, 2006

  Tonight's 78th annual Academy Awards presentation promises to be the gayest in history: Brokeback Mountain, Capote and... More >>