Critic's Notebook

“When you watch The Get Down, picture me as one of those kids in the crew,” hip-hop historian Joe Nipper says.

Beyond playing some of the most well-acclaimed bass on the planet for various groups including Bela Fleck & the Flecktones, Victor Wooten is a student of nature and an instructor at his own nonprofit nature camp.

Colorado has long had a loving relationship with reggae music. By extension, that has led to a number of quality ska bands in the punk rock scene. Here are ten of the best reggae and ska bands in the region right now.

Sara Belle of the Pin Downs on surviving sewage at her first show.

Outside a Meow Wolf party on January 4, Wheelchair Sports Camp MC Kalyn Heffernan took City Councilman Albus Brooks to task.

Little Fyodor’s first concert took place at Left Hand Books in Boulder. It was there he found his style.

A man was shot at the first Slim Cessna’s Auto Club concert, and decades later, the band is still playing.

“No Handlebars,” Vine and YouTube sensation Logan Paul’s rip-off of the Flobots’ 2005 banger “Handlebars,” went viral after it was posted on November 23, getting more than 25 million views since.

Seif Ammus is a lawyer. He’s also a rapper. And he’s a political activist who has spent years advocating for peace, reproductive health and an end to the Israeli occupation of Palestine.

Denver hip-hop artist Chase doesn’t rap about drugs or violence; he aims to convey positive messages in his music and be a good influence on his followers.

Remembering the Denver music figures who passed away in late 2017.

How Rocky RamJett cut his neck on a costume at his first concert.

When La Pompe Jazz’s singer and guitarist David Lawrence first started learning how to play gypsy jazz, he had to break some old picking habits.

Charlie LaGreca got his start in an a cappella act called Minimum Wage.

Australian musician Alex Lahey has made a splash with her pop-punk debut album, I Love You Like a Brother.

Slim Cessna’s Auto Club played the night Y2K arrived and soothsayers had predicted the world would end. Lord Dwight Pentacost explains what happened

Colorado Music Hall of Fame will induct jazz and classical music performer Charles Burrell, the first person of color to play in the Denver Symphony.

GWAR is coming to Denver, with sexual harassment and killing President Donald Trump on the spoof metal band’s mind.

Tyson Murray, of the Railbenders, talks about the disaster that was his first concert.

Colorado Music Hall of Fame inductee Dianne Reeves remembers her encounter with Ella Fitzgerald, her years at George Washington High School, and the musicians who influenced her.

Rise of the VLLN debuts November 15, 2017. This weekly event at the new Broadway spot, Sneekeazy, will open up space for local creatives to gather, connect and do what they do best: Create.

To get her first gig, Lannie Garrett told a fib. Now she’s in the Colorado Music Hall of Fame.