Critic's Notebook

The music journalist’s In Defense of Ska comes out on Clash Books in April.

The duo, which formed in 2010, decided to lighten things up mid-pandemic.

The Denver cornetist wrote his latest album while his father was dying.

“I like to see if people go deeper than just thinking that it’s about getting drunk and doing that kind of thing.”

The Denver punk outfit drops its new album, Wasting Time, on November 24.

After recovering from addiction, the Boulder singer has spent twenty years as a music therapist working with seniors around town.

After his brother died, the singer-songwriter Jayme Stone used music to process his loss.

The bluesy country artist drops her new album, Legend Keeper, on October 2.

The Denver band plays fuzzy, medium-tempo songs that segue violently into short bursts of crossover thrash, death and even black-metal.

Max Bessesen is getting into Trouble on his latest album.

The Denver hip-hop band just dropped the music video for its new song, “Elevator.”

The avant-garde clarinet player is in his musical laboratory, breaking old habits and creating new ways of playing.

The band’s latest album is a compilation of B-sides and forgotten tracks.

The Denver DJ on why successful DJs are rarely assholes and how Denver needs to appreciate what it’s got.

Despite the title of its latest album, the musicians behind the Colorado art song group have plenty going on.

Greece inspired the Denver singer-songwriter’s hip-hop- and jazz-infused new album, Ellada.

There are a handful of small concerts still happening at Red Rocks Amphitheatre and they are entirely acoustic.

The family band has been at it for more than five decades.

Ethan Lee McCarthy is neck deem in this depressing year.

The Big Gigantic sax player has been exploring his jazz roots from quarantine.

The Denver rapper’s song, which he never meant to write, takes on police violence.

The Denver trumpeter just dropped his first album with the India-based label Subcontinental Records.