Email Author Michael Roberts

Awards

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

  "The Rocky Mountain News is Going Down"

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2008 Stories by Michael Roberts

• Michael Roberts navigates a host of holiday releases

  published December 18, 2008

  This year, we've wrapped our roundup of holiday albums a bit differently. Instead of delivering it to you in one big lump (like coal), we're... More >>

• Moovers & Shakers 2008: Backbeat scribes weigh in on their favorite local releases of the year

  published December 18, 2008

  Last week on Mile High Fidelity, my new show on 101.5 FM, I marveled at how we'd seamlessly segued from the station's regular... More >>

• Colourmusic searches for its identity

  published December 11, 2008

  Ryan Hendrix and Nick Turner, the founding partners of Colourmusic, aren't cut from the same cloth. Hendrix is an Oklahoma native who worships... More >>

• Katey Laurel

  published December 11, 2008

  I know what you're thinking: The world needs another sensitive singer-songwriter like it needs more layoffs and higher gas prices. But those... More >>

• The Black Crowes

  published December 11, 2008

  When the Black Crowes first went national, around 1990, the band became a walking/talking critical argument. Were Chris and Rich Robinson... More >>

• Pharoahe Monch

  published December 11, 2008

  It's not easy to travel fast by taking the conscious hip-hop route, as Pharoahe Monch knows from personal experience. He earned acclaim but no... More >>

• Five Rocky stars who could be going up

  published December 11, 2008

  Employees of the Rocky Mountain News work on the fifth floor of the Denver Newspaper Agency building, one level beneath their peers at... More >>

• Denver's JOA makes for muddy reading

  published December 11, 2008

  The 2001 joint operating agreement between the Rocky Mountain News and the Denver Post adds an element of mystery to the probable... More >>

• After tackling Politics, Sebastien Tellier gets deep into Sexuality

  published December 4, 2008

  Back in 2004, French singer-songwriter Sebastien Tellier released Politics, an album that took on what most people see as a critical... More >>

• Adai

  published December 4, 2008

  Anyone amazed by the amount of racket the White Stripes can generate with just two members will be positively flattened by Adai's latest... More >>

• Shwayze

  published December 4, 2008

  Aaron "Shwayze" Smith and Cisco Adler began climbing the ladder of success several rungs higher than most new artists thanks to MTV.... More >>

• Civet

  published December 4, 2008

  Kim Fowley didn't just launch the Runaways, the '70s-vintage jailbait group that gave us Joan Jett and Lita Ford. He also created an effective... More >>

• Now based in L.A., Low vs. Diamond can't forget its Boulder roots

  published November 27, 2008

  Seattle native Lucas Field — the frontman for Low Vs. Diamond — decided to attend school at the University of Colorado at Boulder... More >>

• The Ghost Inside

  published November 27, 2008

  In a recent YouTube interview, the members of the Ghost Inside talk about how saturated the metal-core scene is right now, and that's no... More >>

• Brujeria

  published November 27, 2008

  Brujeria, appearing with Cephalic Carnage and Valiomierda, is a supergroup of sorts — and a bizarre one at that. A who's who from the... More >>

• Dead Confederate carries the flag for a new variation on Southern rock

  published November 20, 2008

  When he's asked to describe his home town of Augusta, Georgia, Dead Confederate singer/guitarist Hardy Morris responds with a single word:... More >>

• Pink

  published November 20, 2008

  Her Pinkness likely had no idea that the Stooges used Fun House as the moniker for a genius 1970 album — but the fact that this... More >>

• AC/DC

  published November 20, 2008

  Reliability. It's underrated. Who even thinks about a car that starts every time? Until the one time it doesn't. AC/DC is like that. The band... More >>

• Invisible Orange

  published November 20, 2008

  Although Invisible Orange's previous release was called Valium, the long-player hardly qualified as a depressant — and that's true... More >>

• Something Wild

  published November 20, 2008

  Director Matt Wolf first heard of Arthur Russell— the subject of Wild Combination: A Portrait of Arthur Russell, an impressive... More >>

• Ian MacKaye talks about his thoroughly unconventional career

  published November 13, 2008

  As the guiding force behind Minor Threat and Fugazi and the co-founder of Dischord Records, among the most influential of all indie imprints,... More >>

• Deadmau5

  published November 13, 2008

  Canada has nurtured some of the more intriguing musical acts of recent years, including various members of the Broken Social Scene collective.... More >>

• Portugal. The Man

  published November 13, 2008

  These days, Wasilla, Alaska, is mainly known to residents of the Lower 48 as the place where Sarah Palin served as mayor before beginning a... More >>

• k.d. lang

  published November 6, 2008

  The lowercased lang — the subject of an extended Q&A accessible at More >>

• Jeffree Star

  published November 6, 2008

  Jeffrey Steininger, aka Jeffree Star, who's touring with Brokencyde, Teen Hearts and Ultraviolet Sound, wouldn't have done well during the... More >>