The Red Aunts are back, and they’re as punk as ever.

Denver Americana singer-songwriter Blake Brown recently hit the road – and now he’s making a quick stop back home. He’s touring in support of acclaimed soulful singer-songwriter Justin Townes Earle

Travis Moor, frontman for Denver indie-rock quartet the Hunger Artist, was born to a seventeen-year-old mother.

For the fans and musicians of Denver’s foundational genre-bending string band Elephant Revival, it’s the end of an era – and the start of a new one.

The creation of local psych-blues outfit Dragondeer’s first full-length record, If You Got The Blues, was a totally new type of production for the group.

Avenhart is ready to take Colorado by storm.

Charlotte Heth, professor emerita at the University of California, Los Angeles, will be giving a lecture, dubbed “Too Many Words — Not Enough Music,” at the Grusin Music Hall of the University of Colorado Boulder College of Music.

Lights, a Canadian alt-pop artist, published a six-volume comic accompanied by a concept album in a project dubbed Skin&Earth. The album and comic revolve around the story of Enaia, Lights’s fictional avatar.

Denver band Television Generation has familiar gripes: Rent is too high here, DIY spaces are being destroyed by regulatory scrutiny, and Donald Trump’s presidency is making everything worse.

The homeless advocacy organization HomeAid Colorado is hosting a benefit concert and screening of the documentary Mighty Ground, about musician Ronald Troy Collins, a man who struggled with homelessness.

Sara Giita, a local folk-pop singer, is an assault survivor who used music to help herself heal. Now, she uses music to help others and is throwing a benefit concert for a Haitian Orphanage on February 3 at the Mercury Cafe.

R.Ariel makes art in her own way – and she dabbles in a lot of different art forms. She’s an eclectic musician and vocalist who writes, records and produces all of her work. Her concerts feature visual projections, not just sonic components, and she’s also written two books.

On an August afternoon, a group of friends was relaxing and listening to music from a pontoon on the reservoir at Cherry Creek State Park when Brian Jung dove into shallow water and hit his head against the hard bottom, severely damaging several vertebrae in his back.

Wildermiss has deep roots in Denver. Its guitarists Joshua Hester and Seth Beamer and drummer Caleb Thoemke all used to play together in the beloved local indie rock band Red Fox Run. When the group dissolved in the winter of 2016, a dynamic new project rose up out of its ashes.

Aaron Lee Tasjan is not your typical Americana singer. He doesn’t wear flannel shirts or wail about loneliness in a deep baritone. Nope. Tasjan croons whimsically on topics that range from smoking dope to the bars in Los Angeles to more meta musings on the images that we experience the world through.

Matt Rouch has found his sound. After years of performing in rock bands on the East Coast, he moved to Denver two years ago to take a job in environmental science with the Bureau of Land Management. He had planned to focus only on his work, but when he saw the city’s booming music scene, he couldn’t resist the pull to continue writing and playing music.

The Lonesome Days is Colorado’s next up-and-coming bluegrass band to keep an eye on.

Denver-based Latin ska band Roka Hueka has organized a benefit concert in support of the Metro Denver Sanctuary Coalition. Dubbed “Territorio Liberado,” it will take over the stage at Lost Lake Lounge on Sunday, September 10.

Rhiannon Giddens sings the kind of music that people in the United States need to hear. With a haunted plucking on her banjo, Giddens conjures the past and present lives of black people in America.

John Moreland makes his words count. His bluesy folk-rock with a country twang resonates in the chests of listeners, partly because of his deep and raw voice and partly because of his highly personal and honest lyrics.