Music

Somewhere just past the two minute mark of “Tommy and Me,” one of the middle-stretch cuts on world music guitarist Jesse Cook’s latest CD,...

Like much of how singer-songwriter Stefan Babcock deals with the relentless pressures of life, the opening interlude on his band PUP’s latest album started...

Social Distortion, along with their contemporaries, Agent Orange, Black Flag, Circle Jerks, X, The Vandals, D.l., Bad Religion, T.S.O.L. and the Offspring, helped shape...

It was the cover. The cover kind of said something, and then it kind of said something else, because the times and the world...

The gospel of N3ptune

I let my 12-year-old serve as DJ on the way to the Gorillaz show at Ball Arena in Denver last night, and from Boulder...

Todd Rundgren has long been known as an innovator within the music world. Savvy in technology, he designed the first-ever graphics tablet for Apple...

In the world of stringed instruments, the four-string ukulele has a small and kitschy lute that was associated with the likes of the late...

It’s hard not to become introspective when listening to...

Industry rule number 4,080, as set forth by A Tribe Called Quest on The Low End Theory, is still true. Record company people are still shady. Luckily, record company people hold dwindling influence over what hip-hop music you get to hear...

If you have attended a classical orchestra concert, you’ve seen the concertmaster. He or she enters after the rest of the orchestra is onstage, to...

We all have ways of measuring the passage of time. We watch our kids grow up — their way-too-fast and amazing transformation into adults...