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Former Jewel co-writer Steve Poltz was meant for younew
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Colorado Springs Independent |
Chris Parker |
12-27-2013 |
Profiles & Interviews
Pop Punk Progenitors: The Descendents never want to grow upnew
It's easy to misjudge punk rock, figures the Descendents' Bill Stevenson. "There's some impression it's this bonehead thing," he says. "But when you look just a little beyond that surface, you realize it's where a lot of the thinkers are in the rock community."...
Colorado Springs Independent |
Chris Parker |
08-08-2013 |
Profiles & Interviews
Trapped in the matrix with Black Moth Super Rainbownew
Electronica nihilist Tom Fec snatches chaos from the jaws of victory
Colorado Springs Independent |
Chris Parker |
05-09-2013 |
Profiles & Interviews
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Slim Jesus, Spike Lee and the art of cultural inauthenticitynew
Emcees in Chicago's underground drill-rap community are divided over which of two outsiders to dislike more.
Colorado Springs Independent |
Bill Forman |
12-16-2015 |
Music
Nostalgia and nightmaresnew
Dreams frontman Nick Wold on Nirvana, Duran Duran and Charles Manson.
Colorado Springs Independent |
Bill Forman |
12-11-2015 |
Profiles & Interviews
Why Music Still Matters at SXSWnew
Success comes with consequences, and one of them is contempt. As the South by Southwest music festival's attendance has risen — from just 700 in 1987 to nearly 30,000 in 2015 — so too has the volume of the critics and contrarians who've gone on to vilify what's become the world's largest music event.
Colorado Springs Independent |
Bill Forman |
04-01-2015 |
Music
Tori Amos begins to hear the lightnew
On the cover of her new 14th set, Unrepentant Geraldines, adventurous singer-songwriter-keyboardist Tori Amos is standing before a wall-size mural, a paintbrush clutched in her right hand, as if she's just put the finishing strokes on her latest primary-colored masterpiece. But don't read it too literally, she cautions...
Colorado Springs Independent |
Tom Lanham |
07-16-2014 |
Profiles & Interviews
Girls and boys chase ‘simply irresistible’ Ingrid Michaelsonnew
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Colorado Springs Independent |
Kirsten Akens |
04-24-2014 |
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