Critic's Notebook

“I can’t say for sure if it was the heat or my nerves.”

This week Denver’s Tom Gershwin Sextet celebrates the release of its new album, Our Season, a series of compositions mirroring both the order and chaos of nature.

Hugo Award-winning writer Jason Heller has written for the New Yorker, Rolling Stone, Pitchfork and the Atlantic Monthly. He’s been a Westword contributor for many years and is a familiar face on the Denver music scene, both as a DJ and now in his current band, Weathered Statues. For his…

Primitive Man has been consistently releasing heavy records since forming six years ago, but Caustic, which dropped last year on Relapse, is the local sludge metal trio’s most abrasive to date.

Nick Plumber’s noise band Chaos Ensemble had a wild first concert.

Sarah Martin of Belle and Sebastian talks about the group’s songwriting process and the recording of How to Solve Our Human Problems.

Drummer Dan Weiss surrounds himself with musicians who are open to different types of music and explore things they don’t know about.

Bill Frisell says recording his new album was like playing a gig in slow motion.

The Denver metal act’s new music video is bleak and to the point.

Denver band The Milk Blossoms are enjoying life after releasing their much-anticipated sophomore album Dry Heave the Heavenly.

This year’s City Park Jazz season, which includes ten concerts, starts this Sunday, June 3 at the City Park Pavilion, with Jyemo Club.

The guys in the jazz/metal/noise trio Giardia are inspired by farming.

Treepeople will be playing Westword Music Showcase, Saturday, June 23.

Sometimes dreams come true.

Since Alan Cogen founded Pathways to Jazz in 2014, his organization that supports Colorado’s jazz community has given grants to nearly forty musicians to support the costs of recording.

D.O.A.’s still fighting back.

A Meazy aims to make music that people can relate to and rap about topics that most rappers steer clear of.

Colorado loves its jazz all summer long.

Bennie Maupin plays Dazzle with the Joe Anderies Quartet on Friday, May 18.

Stephanie Richards has used water and tin foil as resonators for her trumpet. Now she’s using drum heads.

On April 25, 2018, Joe Vasquez, better known as Denver Joe, passed away. He was 62.

Mastodon and Primus are playing a co-headlining tour. Here’s why Mastodon’s members don’t mind playing first.