The Disco Biscuits might travel to Colorado from Philadelphia, but the east coasters may as well be a Denver band at this point.

This is all getting horribly familiar, isn’t it? We’ve lost another one — a great musician and songwriter taken far too young. We’ll never know quite why Chris Cornell, of Soundgarden and AudioSlave, made the decisions that he did, but it’s not for us to judge. Here are ten of his best songs.

When Art Alexakis’s Everclear formed in 1991 in Portland, Oregon, just three hours from Seattle, the alt-rock band was inevitably lumped in with the grunge scene. And sure, there were superficial similarities, from Alexakis’s gaunt demeanor and drug stories to the fashion, but there was very little grunge in Everclear’s…

French composer Jean-Michel Jarre’s debut album, Deserted Palace, was released in 1972. That’s a decade before Juan Atkins and Rick Davis formed Detroit techno pioneer Cybotron and, frankly, more than a decade before anyone really considered electronic music a “thing.”

On May 26, English folk-rock veterans Jethro Tull will play a show with the Colorado Symphony at Red Rocks. The beloved amphitheater was, of course, the venue for an infamous riot in the summer of ’71 that resulted in a cloud of tear gas, 28 serious injuries, and the cancellation of the remainder of the venue’s 1971 summer program.

Lettuce is a funk band that was born when the various members were at the Berklee College of Music in Boston in 1992, though most of the members are proud New Yorkers. However, when Lettuce drummer and hip-hop producer Adam Deitch moved to Denver about a year ago, his colleagues were keen to follow. Guitarist Adam Smirnoff arrived in October, and he couldn’t be happier.

Few words will make a music fan cringe more than, “actor-turned-musician.” And with good reason.

When they made Kinky Friedman, they broke the mold immediately afterwards. Like, they smashed that thing into unrecoverable dust. Because God knows, there’s nobody else on this Earth quite like Friedman.

David Crosby is one of those rare musicians who is in the Rock-and-Roll Hall of Fame twice, as are all of the members of Crosby, Stills & Nash. For Crosby, it’s his work with CSN and the Byrds that earned him his spots (Graham Nash is also in with the…

They say that, in comedy, timing is everything. That’s the art of the joke, or funny movie scene — the setup, the anticipation, the payoff. And yet, here’s a head-scratcher: How has punk supergroup Me First & the Gimme Gimmes traded off of the same gag for more than twenty years and, more perplexing, remained hilarious?

On Friday, May 5, the Open Media Foundation hosts its next monthly free Open Music Session event, which will spotlight music from Los Lunaticos, while comedy will come courtesy of Jose Macall.

There are band names that mean basically nothing, and then there are those that describe the music perfectly. Essentially, for every Smashing Pumpkins, there’s a Bombpops.

It was fourteen years ago when Cris Kirkwood was serving 21 months in prison for striking a security guard at a post office with his own baton.

A year ago, Brent Cowles told us that he had a big year ahead of him. He was right. Cowles might not have set the world on fire commercially, but that was hardly his intention anyway.

Since 1995, Washington D.C. electronic music duo the Thievery Corporation has been blending music from all over the world with dub, trip-hop and even jazz to create a unique sound that is both rootsy and based in authenticity.

Indie-folk duo Whitherward formed in Nashville in 2010 and, but in 2014 relocated to Denver and made efforts to integrate themselves into the local music scene.

For more than ten years, Chicago electronic music project Flosstradamus was a duo composed of Curt Cameruci and Josh Young, and the pair rose up to be one of the United States’ most popular and celebrated groups from the world of bass music.

Singer-songwriter Lisa Loeb has worn a number of different masks over the course of what has been a fascinating career.

Thanks to the SuicideGirls, the whole concept of women who sport a punk rock, Goth and “alternative” look working as models has been driven at full-speed into the mainstream.

Denver is blessed with a host of talented musicians of all genres, and most of them record at the many great Colorado studios. That inevitably means that behind the scenes talented producers, engineers and all sorts of studio technicians are working their magic without much fanfare.

Denver hip-hop troupe Flobots has never been about doing things the easy way.