Critic's Notebook

The legendary trace bluesman on “Hey Joe,” lyrical minimalism, and his childhood learning folk music in Denver.

The Mile High City has plenty of options when it comes to choirs.

Why Denver metal scene keeps making global waves.

Latino and Native American rapper Alasadir releases “Fed Up!” on Halloween.

Owner Donald Rossa is throwing one last show before the state shuts down his Denver jazz club.

He was a manager who not only changed Denver’s nightlife landscape but transformed his employees’ lives as well.

The band’s latest, Mosaico, is a multilingual, multigenre hip-hop album that takes on the violence of borders.

Denver rapper Saint Joe discusses his new album Penmanship, dedicated to his late cousin Almighty Ravnous.

The music will continue.

Denver native and rapper At’Eaze talks about being a Christian and a rapper, but not a Christian rapper.

The ex-Dead Kennedys singer’s latest, Tea Party Revenge Porn, is always political and occasionally personal.

The band explores the violence of the Old West.

The Colorado Springs synth-metal act goes after the tech guru on a new concept album.

With hip-hop bravado and metal fury, the Denver band is raging.

The music journalist’s In Defense of Ska comes out on Clash Books in April.

The duo, which formed in 2010, decided to lighten things up mid-pandemic.

The Denver cornetist wrote his latest album while his father was dying.

“I like to see if people go deeper than just thinking that it’s about getting drunk and doing that kind of thing.”

The Denver punk outfit drops its new album, Wasting Time, on November 24.

After recovering from addiction, the Boulder singer has spent twenty years as a music therapist working with seniors around town.

After his brother died, the singer-songwriter Jayme Stone used music to process his loss.

The bluesy country artist drops her new album, Legend Keeper, on October 2.