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

• Sound Tribe Sector 9

  published January 26, 2006

  I've seen the future of hippie music, and it's called Sound Tribe Sector 9. Moreover, this phrase isn't nearly as much of a backhanded insult as... More >>

• Aerosmith

  published January 26, 2006

  It'd be a lot more fun to write this item if Aerosmith had flat-out gone to hell. Then there'd be no reason not to note that Steven Tyler is more... More >>

• Hopped Up

  published January 19, 2006

  The last decade has brought big changes to the Radio Bums -- and all of them have been for the better. DJ Chonz, Francois... More >>

• Doubling Up

  published January 19, 2006

  When they're making music together under the Tegan and Sara banner, identical twins Tegan and Sara Quin are halves of a whole. But they're also... More >>

• Mary J. Blige

  published January 19, 2006

  Throughout her career, Mary J. Blige has transformed her misery into listeners' bliss. But even though her life is happier than it was during the... More >>

• Drop Dead, Gorgeous

  published January 19, 2006

  It doesn't matter if Be Mine, Valentine is described as emo, screamo or even Zima, for that matter. By any name, this six-track,... More >>

• Col. Bruce Hampton and the Aquarium Rescue Unit

  published January 19, 2006

  Unlike many of the jam-banders who play Boulder, Hampton isn't a poseur whose look and sound hark back to an era he didn't experience firsthand.... More >>

• Celeste Krenz

  published January 19, 2006

  A dozen years back, when North Dakota native Celeste Krenz arrived on the Denver music scene, she was categorized as a country artist, and rightly... More >>

• Storytime

  published January 12, 2006

  Denver Post staffer Kevin Simpson was exhausted after completing December 18's "Letting Go: Dylan's Last Days," a beautifully... More >>

• Two Woodies

  published January 12, 2006

  Medeski, Martin & Wood bassist Chris Wood gets that hometown feeling every time his group performs in Boulder, where he was raised. "My parents... More >>

• Beautiful Creatures

  published January 12, 2006

  Joe Leste has fought on long after lesser men would have waved the white flag. He first turned heads as the pretty-boy frontdude in Bang Tango, a... More >>

• e.s.t.

  published January 12, 2006

  In portions of the globe with a surer grasp of umlauts than is regularly exhibited here, this Swedish export is also known as the Esbjörn... More >>

• No Naps

  published January 5, 2006

  Visitors to Atlantic Records' Internet home will find the Nappy Roots listed among the imprint's roster of artists, and an affiliated website... More >>