Critic's Notebook

Bill Frisell says recording his new album was like playing a gig in slow motion.

The Denver metal act’s new music video is bleak and to the point.

Denver band The Milk Blossoms are enjoying life after releasing their much-anticipated sophomore album Dry Heave the Heavenly.

This year’s City Park Jazz season, which includes ten concerts, starts this Sunday, June 3 at the City Park Pavilion, with Jyemo Club.

The guys in the jazz/metal/noise trio Giardia are inspired by farming.

Treepeople will be playing Westword Music Showcase, Saturday, June 23.

Sometimes dreams come true.

Since Alan Cogen founded Pathways to Jazz in 2014, his organization that supports Colorado’s jazz community has given grants to nearly forty musicians to support the costs of recording.

D.O.A.’s still fighting back.

A Meazy aims to make music that people can relate to and rap about topics that most rappers steer clear of.

Colorado loves its jazz all summer long.

Bennie Maupin plays Dazzle with the Joe Anderies Quartet on Friday, May 18.

Stephanie Richards has used water and tin foil as resonators for her trumpet. Now she’s using drum heads.

On April 25, 2018, Joe Vasquez, better known as Denver Joe, passed away. He was 62.

Mastodon and Primus are playing a co-headlining tour. Here’s why Mastodon’s members don’t mind playing first.

Jazz enthusiasts look forward to Denver’s Five Points Jazz Festival, a yearly tradition in the historic African-American neighborhood, and the 2018 lineup looks stellar.

As long as mankind continues to devolve, the members of Denver’s Of Feather and Bone will find inspiration in humanity’s atrocities.

Wu-Tang Clan founder RZA has been obsessed with The 36th Chamber of Shaolin since he was a kid.

Forty years is a long time to wait for a reunion tour.

Brian Bourgault refuses to give up. Despite ongoing financial challenges and a disability that would destroy most careers and psyches, the Denver musician, who fronts the band Borgo, creates the kind of music that first inspired him as a teenager: soulful rock.

The members of San Francisco-based experimental band the Residents have attempted to cloak their identities under wild costumes, including their infamous eyeball masks, for more than 45 years.

Béla Fleck is often considered the world’s greatest banjo player – and now he’s playing classical music.