In the last few years, experimental alt-pop began to haunt the music scene like a bad habit. It seemed every young imaginative with a drum kit fought for their ...
Though Denver does not claim to compete with the likes of Nashville or L.A., the city is home to a thriving music community. From underground punk to experiment...
For one night, Princess Nokia ran a monarchy over Cervantes’ Masterpiece Ballroom. The forward-moving, electric current felt in the rapper’s assured bars permea...
Out of the flames of a worldwide shutdown, when live music withered and musicians were forced inside, Tuff Bluff was born. A self-proclaimed “pandemic project,”...
Creation — whether it be sonic or visual — is a radical and often tumultuous act of emotional upheaval. Artists of many disciplines reside at the intersection o...
With stir-crazy crowds and musicians itching to perform, Wax Trax wakes up the neighborhood on otherwise sleepy Sunday afternoons in Cap Hill.
A few weeks b...
In 2009, local healer Jeff Klein braved thunderstorms and the Denver Parks Department to play his crystal singing bowls at Red Rocks. Was he supposed to be ther...
The 50-piece electronic-goth rock band itchy-O just dropped their new music video for “Black Mist." Known for their electronica and metal-infused drumline sound...
Smoke plumes were the first sign. Then, an ominous quiet. Finally, burning roadblocks. Riots are not what one anticipates when working with woodwinds and cellos...
No matter how much you listen to an artist, how much you idolize, admire and air guitar (maybe even real guitar) their songs, they won’t come alive until they’r...
As Denver says goodbye to July, we get the chance to welcome August in with over 400 shows going on across the Mile High City this month. Red Rocks has a fully ...
You may not know their name. That’s okay — they’ve only had one since March. The important part is recognizing their emergence. All but the most dedicated music...
Alex is one of many transplants drawn to Denver's music scene and high altitude. She gets down to everything from Mannequin Pussy to Lee Moses; Japanese Breakfast to Tierra Whack; Gustaf to Francoise Hardy. Her intention in writing is simple yet mind-numbing in practice — capture the feelings experienced through music in print. Write it down. Make it sound just as heartbreaking as that one chord in that one song (you know the one). Alex started her journalism career writing about human rights for her local college paper, continued on to edit arts and culture magazines and found her footing in music writing. The rest is history.
