Entertainment
REVIEW: Primus and The Flaming Lips at Red Rocks, Aug. 3
The moon had just begun to set over a sold-out show at Red...
Bird of a different feather
Listening to Andrew Bird’s music, one is struck by its tender grace...
Free radicals charge the tower
It was that kind of afternoon, so we caution Jon Gray, trumpeter/vocalist for the local jazz septet Supercollider, that we were going to start our interview in the middle...
Laurence Fishburne will be Perry White in ‘Man of Steel’
LOS ANGELES — Laurence Fishburne is going to...
MTV celebrates its 30th birthday but stays forever young
LOS ANGELES — MTV, which used to stand for Music...
REVIEW: A Perfect Circle at Red Rocks
How does a band that hasn’t released music since 2004’s eMOTIVe, and has played few shows since, sell out the 9,450-capacity Red Rocks Amphitheatre? The simplest answer may be that the band features Maynard James Keenan, the lead singer of the rock band Tool. The ...
Jill Scott: No sugarcoating, even when the White House calls
CHICAGO — Before she was a renowned R&B singer...
It (almost) never works
Since American media sexualizes almost everything except sex, Hollywood romantic comedies about two people making hey-hey without any big plans for any big future rarely come easily or operate from a spirit of carnal delight. The strain of being hip and loose, yet ...
The tradition lives on
Perhaps the most beautiful thing about bluegrass music — more beautiful, even, than a southern accent over a banjo twang — is the way the genre blurs the line between audience and performer. Songs are passed down and shared and swapped so freely that it’s often hard ...