Music
Spooking the horses
A name like Riot Fest isn’t subtle. And back in July, neither were the residents of Byers, Colo...
Keep it simple
Bands are chemistry experiments, and the introduction of a couple new elements can change the mix in not readily apparent ways. Dr. Dog has been together for more than a dozen years and released six albums of widescreen psych-pop, redolent of hooks and rather ...
Beethoven’s Path to the Future opens CMF
The Colorado Music Festival (CMF) opens its 2019 season Thursday, June 27 with Beethoven’s Overture to Egmont, followed by a series of works that...
Transformative festival Arises
Music festivals have become far more than a gathering of bands and have morphed into a sub-cultural phenomenon that emphasize collaboration, ritual and enlightenment and strive to leave attendees transformed...
Looking in from the Pharcyde
Name a group that released a debut album so potent it sustained interest in the group, with relatively modest help from from subsequent albums, for decades...
No more Mr. Nice Guy
It’s midday on a chilly Wednesday, in a month of Mondays, and Clay Rose is doing some press in between bites of lunch. Through...
Don’t call them rappers
With its first major label release, 2008’s Remind Me in 3 Days, The Knux immediately got touted as one of the most innovative and different-sounding new acts in hip-hop...
Heavy Rotation — New Releases
“New York Summer,” by Generation Lost — A fun instrumental pop song sets the tone for a laid-back summer from the German trio’s wealth...


















