Critic's Notebook

Denver progressive house producer Discognition is getting signed to some of the biggest labels in his genre. He bases his success on the openness of the community.

Anderson Gallegos, aka Mersiv, remembers that when he first went to Red Rocks, he thought, “I’m going to play here one day.”

“Do you know ‘Insane in the Brain’?”

“We mostly play classical… but we’ll give it a shot.”

Protomartyr asks the question: Is everyone in Denver so high, they just say what they think?

“Knowing what heartbreak is makes being in love so much grander.”

EDM is popular in the 303, thanks to the TB-303.

“As much as everyone talks about the opioid epidemic, there needs to be more access to suboxone.”

Slug, aka Sean Daley, gives us the scoop on Atmosphere’s new album, So Many Other Realities Exist Simultaneously.

See it this weekend.

Boogie down!

Free advice: don’t sell undercover cops cocaine.

Be in the know!

“I am, at my core, a community organizer and advocate.”

The 160-year-old building was shaking.

Climb the ladder.

Aurora-based rap trio A$cension resurrects the model of the old-school hip-hop group.

The popular venue has gotten in trouble with neighbors.

“I’m truly blessed. I can’t express that enough.”

The music never stopped!

Press play!

Joe Nipper is the definition of an O.G.

The collective included Denver’s Apples in Stereo and Neutral Milk Hotel.