Ike Turner

The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion at the Bluebird Theater, 6/15/13

JON SPENCER BLUES EXPLOSION @ BLUEBIRD THEATER | 6/15/13 Saving one of the most blistering numbers of the show for the end of the set, Jon Spencer and the Blues Explosion cut loose with "Blues X Man." Making his way to the front of the stage amid a squall of sculpted feedback, Spencer offered up a v ... More >>

Tina Turner: A dynamic performer with the most supreme legs to ever walk a stage

​Tina Turner is the Queen of Rock and Roll, the baddest in the land with the most supreme pair of legs to ever walk a stage. Her voice contains a sandpaper grit that helped smoothed the edges of black culture and her own very rough life. Born in unincorporated Nut Bush, Tennessee, as Anna Mae ... More >>

Happy birthday, Rihanna. "Turn Up the Music," but no "Birthday Cake" for you, Chris Brown!

Update: Chris Brown's "Turn Up the Music" remix featuring Rhianna added below. Happy 24th birthday, Robyn Rihanna Fenty. We remember your first record, "Pon De Replay." Nice, disposable dancefloor pop. It was urban enough to get people dancing in high school, but not sexy enough to fertilize anythi ... More >>

Nominees announced for 5280 Hip-hop Awards, taking place this year at the Paramount Theater

Marcus Gadison/ColorazziInnerstate Ike at last year's awards​Last year's 5280 Hip-Hop Awards was a spectacle in so many ways. Every single rapper, producer and videographer in the scene was on hand for the ceremony. This year's edition of the awards, slated for December 11, promises to be bigg ... More >>

Five infamous monuments named after musicians of questionable moral character

Kurt Cobain​How do you honor a musician when awards and certifications aren't enough? By naming something in his honor, of course -- be it a bridge, a street, an asteroid or even a whole day after the guy. But in naming something after a musician, it's easy to forget that while in some cases t ... More >>

Innerstate Ike on making music for the streets and the evolution of hip-hop in Colorado

​ Years ago in an interview with BET, rapper Jadakiss was asked the age old question: Why do you rap? He answered, with shrewd honesty, for the money. Innerstate Ike (aka Michael Hope) works under that same premise. A Coloradan to the core, Ike makes music specifically for the streets and for ... More >>

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Wax Trax Records

Q&A with Krispy Kream of the Knux

​Don't let the tight jeans and thick-rimmed glasses fool you. The brothers who make up The Knux were raised about as far away from the suburbs as you can get: New Orleans' Ninth Ward. Still, Krispy Kream and Rah Almillio (aka Kentrell and Alvin Lindsey) found their sound by listening to just a ... More >>

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Critic's Choice

Pinetop Perkins

Backwash

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Backwash

We remember the Alamo, but South by Southwest is now a blissful blur.

He's the Piano Man

Pinetop Perkins can't return to his blues roots -- because he never left them.

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Part two of a pre-millennial trek through a hundred years of pop music.

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Ike Turner doesn't say he's innocent, but he swears he's not as guilty as you think.

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Los Lobos has taken some shots, but Cesar Rosas and friends are far from dead.

Robin Hoodlum

Feedback

Thrills for the week

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HER MORE-FAMOUS BEAU'S IN THE BAND, BUT CRISTINA MARTINEZ IS STILL IN CHARGE OF BOSS HOG.