Matt Morris’s music gets an extreme makeover

Whatever image you conjure up when we say Matt Morris (due tonight at the Bluebird Theater with Danielle Ate the Sandwich), forget it. It’s now as obsolete as a Hollywood Video card. You wouldn’t recognize the guy these days. We didn’t. When we stopped by Macy Studios just as he…

Meet Iman S. the mind behind Imanster

Iman S. is passionate about everything he does. The Denver native (“It’s all Denver everything — I’m from Park Hill,” he says) has only been rapping for two years, but to hear him tell it, he’s the best out there. Known for releasing mixtapes with upwards of thirty songs, the…

Let Wasted Wednesdays at Vinyl kickstart your weekend!

Let’s face it: Wednesdays in Denver aren’t exactly poppin’ on the regular. The mid-week LoDo scene is still recovering from the previous weekend, the Highland district has yet to catch a ride on the bass wave, and Capitol Hill just needed something. Enter Wasted Wednesdays at Vinyl in the BASSment…

Russ Christiansen on Surplus Cheaper Hands

When Russ Christiansen wanted to develop his skills and confidence as a songwriter, he went straight to his peers. For more than a year, the former Three Miles West frontman has spearheaded the Surplus Cheaper Hands Collective, a studio project that’s seen input from a slew of local musicians. The…

Kurt Elling on his new album and working with Don Was

With a number of Grammys under his belt, and being named “Male Singer of the Year” by the Jazz Journalists Association six times in the last decade, Kurt Elling is one of the world’s top jazz vocalists. On his latest effort, The Gate, released in February on Concord, Elling teamed…