Black Violin Talks Doing the Impossible Ahead of their Show at the Paramount
Today, genre-defying acts dominate the music industry, and artists move between styles with a level of comfort rarely — if ever — observed before. Few of these ...
Josie Russell
The Dreamy, Down to Earth Duality of Bunny Blake
After seven years of gigging professionally around the Front Range, the local who now uses the moniker Bunny Blake wanted to reinvent her public self. Her initi...
Show You Should Know – Snow Tha Product’s Relationship with Colorado Advances to Mission Ballroom
Though Mexican-American rapper Snow Tha Product hails from Texas and California, she’s always performed for Colorado as if it was her home. She’s graced the sta...
How Tanaya Winder Brought Her Voice to Life and Helped Thousands of Indigenous Youth Find Theirs
On the Southern Ute reservation in Ignacio, Colorado, a young Tanaya Winder would record cassette tapes of herself singing and send them to her grandparents. “I...
Preview – NYC Brass Band Lucky Chops to Make their Colorado Debut at the Bluebird
“You’re going to make it big if you get a singer.”
The members of Lucky Chops — a brass-based band who cut their teeth busking in New York City — received th...
Review – The Stars Aligned for A$AP Ferg and Ski Mask The Slump God at Mission Ballroom
On the night of November 18, seven hip-hop artists and two national headlining tours converged on the Mission Ballroom’s single stage. Denver’s rap fans were bl...
Why Spoken Word is the Art Form of Denver’s Activists
Upon attending one of the city’s many poetry open mic nights, two things become immediately apparent. First, Denver has a vibrant spoken word art scene. It’s ra...
Review – Ray LaMontagne Let his Songs Speak for Themselves on Night One at the Paramount Theatre
After enduring a week of pitch-black evenings brought about by daylight savings, earth-dwelling creatures began their varied ritualistic practices of settling i...
Our 9 Favorite Films From The 2019 Denver Film Festival
For more than four decades now, the Denver Film Festival has brought world-class cinema to the Mile High City in a rare treat for cinephiles. For 11 days, films...
Review – Young Thug Reveled in his Overdue Superstardom at the Fillmore
At first glance, Young Thug seems like pop music’s most ubiquitous sidekick. He’s featured on Camilla Cabello’s 2017 hit “Havana” and Post Malone’s 2019 single ...
Colorado-Raised Director Rian Johnson Discusses “Knives Out,” His First Film Since “Star Wars: The Last Jedi”
The renowned and Colorado-raised director, Rian Johnson, was already destined to make Denver Film Festival (DFF) history on October 31. That night’s Red Carpet ...
Maddy O’Neal Talks “The Rush,” Mission Ballroom and Becoming her Own Band
“Now that I realize how hard it is to travel with a band, how about I become more of a band myself?”
In so few words, local electronic music producer — and r...
Josie Russell
Staff Writer
Josie Russell loves to investigate culture, ideas and the media through which we transmute them. She perambulates through life with headphones on her ears, hair in her face and a (dog-eared) book in her hand.