Critic's Notebook

Hero Trio offers listeners a chance to take a load off.

The New York-based jazz drummer was raised in and inspired by Denver.

A supergroup of Denver rappers got together to write a song remembering George Floyd.

Hector Fredrick Garcia, who performs as Spoke in Wordz, has been rapping about police violence since the killing of Michael Brown.

Former Rhythm + Flow contestant and Denver rapper Old Man Saxon released a music video for “Oh, You Ain’t Know?”

The Greeley jazz program is giving East Coast conservatories a run for their money.

Greeley-based rapper Rev. da IV is dropping his debut EP, Oh YAWP!

Vincent Clouse, aka 1-natVson-1, has had a long journey from West Hollywood to a Kansas prison to a music career in Denver.

The Denver sludge-metal band shines a light on metaphysics on its new album, Lux.

La Cour owners and longtime partners Janet Poth and Joseph Monley are closing down their Denver jazz club.

“Pop culture is pop culture, but Red Rocks is unique in that the history of pop culture and Red Rocks go hand-in-hand.”

COVID-19 has forced another cultural event to be canceled.

Need to confront the bleak state of the world head on? Try Earthdiver.

We may not be able to gather for the Five Points Jazz Festival this year, but the show will go on…online.

The Denver rapper is taking Colorado hip-hop in a new direction.

Westword readers have weighed in with their favorite Red Rocks memories.

World champion breakdancer RoxRite will join Bboy Factory’s Ian Flaws for an online course.

Lane-O celebrates love in his new music video, “Beautiful.”

DJ Zenas drops a song about the COVID-19 pandemic.

Ben Makinen set out a make a documentary about his mentors in the Denver jazz scene.

Legendary Denver promoter Tom Banger remembers the late Genesis Breyer P-Orridge.

Denver-based MC StoneyBertz’s EP Tough Love is the rapper’s debut from sobriety.