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Reckless Kelly Puts Business Before Pleasure

“In this day and age, an artist should never go on stage without understanding their business,” says Jay Nazz, drummer with Austin country-rock band Reckless Kelly. Let’s let those words sink in for a minute, because not only are they potentially artistically apocalyptic when you think of the countless talented...
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Cinemax’s Crime Drama Quarry Mines Familiar Territory With Rare Feeling

Eight minutes into the pilot episode of Cinemax’s new crime show Quarry — an uneven but largely rewarding translation of Max Allan Collins’ crime books into emotionally challenging, character-driven television — Marine Lloyd “Mac” Conway, Jr. (Logan Marshall-Green) returns home a day early from his second tour in Vietnam. By...
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New Jersey State Senator Talks Up Pot Legalization After Colorado Visit

After a four-day trip to Colorado earlier this month that took him through Boulder, Golden, and Denver, New Jersey State Senator Nicholas Scutari, a Democrat from Union, examined the effects of legalizing recreational marijuana. He concluded similar legislation could benefit New Jersey. His trip included visits to dispensaries and meetings...
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Denver NORML-Backed Social-Pot-Use Measure Doesn’t Make Ballot

Editor's note: Two social-cannabis-use measures are currently collecting signatures in an attempt to earn a place on the Denver ballot this November: the Neighborhood Supported Cannabis Consumption Pilot Program and the Denver Responsible Use Initiative, sponsored by Denver NORML. Earlier this week, we published a post headlined Inside the Neighborhood Supported...
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The Church and Psychedelic Furs on Their Appeal Beyond Nostalgia

This weekend two of the greatest rock bands of the '80s are performing together at Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities. Typically, bands whose greatest commercial popularity happened more than twenty years ago find themselves playing a nostalgia circuit of state fairs and the like, but the Church and...
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Film on the Rocks Forecasts Purple Rain for Prince Tribute

In case you missed it.... At Westword Arts, Keith Garcia reports about last-minute additions to the Film of the Rocks schedule — including a Prince-tribute screening of Purple Rain. Colorado Peak Politics on John McCain's call for the Justice Department to investigate the Las Animas spill. Purple Row's Ryan Freemyer to...
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Warren Haynes Can’t Get Enough of Red Rocks

Having played with the likes of the Allman Brothers Band, Gov't Mule, and Grateful Dead spinoff band the Dead for many years now, guitarist Warren Haynes is like a figure from a jam-band fan’s wet dream. Naturally, the North Carolina native is also a bit of a favorite among Colorado...
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Up-and-Comer Maren Morris Ditches the Country Playbook

The latest trend in mainstream country music seems to be Gen X cowboy crooners teaming up with the pop-star likes of Demi Lovato, Elle King and Pink for duets that might endear them to younger audiences. These crossover pairings actually sound pretty good, but the dynamic is creepily Richard Gere-ian,...
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Ivory Circle Is on the Cusp of a New EP — and Stealing Your Heart

Denver natives and indie-alternative darlings Ivory Circle are scheduled to perform at the 2016 Westword Music Showcase on the City Hall Main Stage. They're currently working on a new EP, the third and final in a series that started with the release of Equilateral in 2014. With the second, Isosceles,...
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Denver’s Eleven Most Dangerous Intersections

On numerous occasions over the years, we've posted about the most dangerous intersections in Denver — but typically, our data was compiled from previously published sources. This time around, we reached out to the Denver Police Department and asked Mary Dulacki and her team in the records unit to pull together...
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Langhorne Slim Strengthens His Spirit Through Sobriety

As Langhorne Slim, who performs Friday, June 3, and Saturday, June 4, at the Bluebird Theater, walks around California's Napa Valley before his set at Bottlerock Festival, he is thinking of a different time in his life.  "I used to live out here years ago, a lifetime ago," he says...
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Wye Oak on the Benefits of Radical Vulnerability

While not formally associated with Wham City, the well-known Baltimore art collective, Wye Oak's Jenn Wasner and Andy Stack have long been friends and associates of that crew and the Baltimore music scene generally. Ben O'Brien and Alan Resnick of Wham City made a video for “The Tower,” a track...