Music

I often like to focus on music from long ago in this column, however, Yussef Kamaal’s Black Focus from 2016 is so exceptional that I feel as though it deserves… more

Cortex was everything jazz-funk fusion could have ever hoped to be. Their music was tightly arranged, with imaginative improvisations and not a note out of place. It was uplifting, with… more

John Coltrane is known as one of the greatest musicians of the 20th century. He played longer solos than Miles Davis on Kind of Blue, created A Love Supreme, and… more

Very few would commonly connect Gay pride, 50’s nostalgia, avant-garde film, and motorcycle culture. Kenneth Anger did so regularly, through a variety of strange and beautiful films. Today I will… more

In 1966, the U.S. was transformed by many significant events. Beatlemania, Vietnam protests, the influential Miranda case, and the birth of both Adam Sandler and Mike Tyson all came in… more

Timothy Leary once said that for 364 days out of the year, you can hear conventional ideas, and that on the one day that people heard his, they were shocked.… more

Sunday’s stormy skies paired perfectly with the darkly mellow tones of Iceage’s stellar new album, Beyondless, and set the ideal ambiance for their show at Denver’s Bluebird Theater. Hailing from… more

Disregarding the fact that I was going to go see Vulfpeck live, I was excited due to the fact I got to go see another show at the beautiful Red… more

I bought my tickets to see Parquet Courts months ago, my anticipation building more and more until it was time to drive to Denver for their show last night at… more

After a little wait in a light drizzle and the confiscation of my two hidden beers (hey, why not try), I was more than ready for Cigarettes After Sex’s first… more