When Tyler Bates first encountered Marilyn Manson on the set of Californication about five years ago, the meeting with the shock-rock star was awkward, says the film and television composer.

Ten years ago Chris Daniels considered retiring his band, Chris Daniels & the Kings, which had been together for 25 years. He told his father, whose response was blunt: “Dude, you’re just getting into the most productive time of your life.”

Remarkable music graced the three-and-a-half hour-long Colorado Music Hall of Fame Jazz Masters & Beyond induction concert at the Paramount Theatre on Tuesday night, but stories by honorees like Earth Wind & Fire’s Philip Bailey and Grammy-award winning singer Dianne Reeves gave the show poignancy.

Philip Bailey, Larry Dunn and Andrew Woolfolk of Earth Wind & Fire honed their musical chops at Denver’s East High School. It was the first place that Bill Frisell performed a jazz song on guitar in public. And when trumpeter Ron Miles was at East, he played his first solo.

Tommy Stinson has been busy over the last decade or so: He has played reunion shows with the Replacements, toured and recorded with Guns ‘N Roses and Soul Asylum, and released both a solo album and a new Bash & Pop disc.

Chris Cone, who bought the Buffalo Rose last year, is shutting down the bar on November 19 for a year-long renovation. He plans to reopen in fall of 2018.

After more than five decades, Denver’s oldest blues bar Ziggies closed on October 31, when its ten-year lease expired.

After nearly twenty-five years at 1485 South Colorado Boulevard, Second Spin will close at the end of January.

The chilly months ahead offer a handful of Colorado events that mix the great outdoors and great music.

Eyes of the World: Grateful Dead Photography 1965-1995 is, a new coffee-table photography book that takes a comprehensive look at the band over three decades.

South African musician Johnny Clegg, known for his anti-apartheid activism and his work with his groups Juluka and Savuka, has toured nearly every year since 1982. He’s playing his final North American concert in Boulder as part of the Last Journey tour.

William Patrick Corgan lost his mind making what he thought would be the follow-up to the Smashing Pumpkins’ 2014 Monuments to an Elegy.

King Rat frontman Luke Schmaltz talks about No Apologies, No Regrets, the Denver punk band’s latest album with Unable Records.

Scott Morrill and Adam Stroul, who have been longtime co-owners and talent buyers at the independent Five Points venue Cervantes’ Masterpiece Ballroom and Other Side, recently joined AEG Presents Rocky Mountains as the company’s newest talent buyers.