Critic's Notebook

The history of Brazilian thrash-metal giant Sepultura is fraught with bitterness, tumult and controversy.

Peter Hook, the bass player for Joy Division and New Order, is touring with his band, the Light, to perform albums from both of his previews acts.

A short cartoon history of the Capitol Hill Tavern.

The BellRays have been forging their own path in rock-and-roll since their inception in 1990. Back then, as now, there were very few black women fronting rock bands, something lead singer Lisa Kekaula jokes she kind of likes it.

Brandon Connor, aka the rapper Young Fait, was still in the womb on the day his mother was washing dishes and dropped a plate. She bent over to pick up the broken pieces and narrowly dodged a bullet as it blasted through a window and into her refrigerator door.

Redd Kross is playing Denver for the first time in twenty years.

The U.K. punk scene lacked glamour when the Damned launched in 1976, and many clubs had no interest in booking the band.

A cartoon history of the Cherry Cricket.

Denver hip-hip duo Top Flite Empire has dropped a video for the track “WAVE,” from the debut album Bad Decisions, and it’s causing a stir within the local rap community thanks to the manner with which it’s tackling race and class stereotypes, and the prejudices that people harbor without knowing it.

Just because Methyl Ethel was perhaps the only band in the universe not to have descended upon Austin for South By Southwest last month doesn’t mean the trio hasn’t been plenty busy.

Since forming in 2008 and releasing a self-titled debut in 2012, the quartet the Allah-Las have become a constant presence in the United States’ psychedelic-rock circuit.

From the outside, Melina Duterte who plays under the name Jay Som appears to be an overnight success. At just 22, she has already positioned herself as indie rock’s newest critical darling.

Dazzle is leaving its longtime location at 940 Lincoln Street and preparing to move downtown to the Baur’s Building at 1512 Curtis Street, where the club will celebrate its grand re-opening on Thursday, June 1.

Jay Vance, who performs as Jbot, plays brutal music with robots.

Cloud Catcher guitarist and singer Rory Rummings lives and breathes heavy music. It’s been that way for as long as he can recall.

Denver goth promoter Joshywa Schrader passed away in the early morning hours of March 8, 2017, at age 41.

Yazman Azimi, who performs as YaSI, says, “Music is just about relating to people; the only thing that changes is the sounds.”

Before associates of Beyoncé Knowles recruited Too Many Zooz to perform on her hit 2016 album Lemonade, the trio had established itself as a standout act in New York’s subways.

Monique Ortiz and Mike Howard of Alien Knife Fight met while both were working, in two separate buildings, for Grav Labs in Austin, Texas, but they didn’t really know one another. One day, in 2010, they ran into each other while practicing with their then projects: Ortiz’s not so serious band, which mostly jammed, and Howard’s stoner-rock band Bay of Pigs.

WesDawg, one of Denver’s best rappers, has a unique voice and a style that can switch from chill to pissed at the drop of a hat.

A brief comic history of Tennyson’s Tap.

Southern metal bands Norma Jean and He Is Legend will be in Denver this Wednesday, March 22, during their Polar Similar Tour. Their Denver stop is sure to be one of the most Southern fried shows this side of the Mississippi River. To amp you up for the concert, below are…