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Eddie Van Halen, the guitar virtuoso and founder of Van Halen, died Tuesday at the age of 65 after a battle with cancer. CoME director G. Brown spoke with Van Halen over the years and has written [...]

Eddie Van Halen, the guitar virtuoso and founder of Van Halen, died Tuesday at the age of 65 after a battle with cancer. CoME director G. Brown spoke with Van Halen over the years and has written [...]

Denver-based singer and songwriter Nathaniel Rateliff started out in the band Born in the Flood before forming the Wheel and developing a dedicated following within the Denver music community. [...]

Happy 100th birthday to Charlie Burrell, the first African-American to become a member of a major orchestra—first the Denver Symphony Orchestra, and then the San Francisco Symphony [...]

Happy 94th birthday to Colorado Springs native Max Morath, “Mr. Ragtime.” Max single-handedly kept the essence of early 1900s ragtime in the public eye as a pianist, composer, actor and author.

In 1977, Carole King’s “Simple Things” peaked on the Billboard albums chart. King enlisted Boulder’s own Navarro as her backup band for her gold album.

September 22 is the birth anniversary of Dean Reed (died June 13, 1986). While he never achieved musical success in the US, the Colorado native became an international superstar, known as “the [...]

This week in September marks the anniversary of the Grateful Dead’s first appearances in Colorado, at Denver’s Family Dog and a “Human Be-In” in City Park in 1967. Watch “Through the Cool [...]

This week in September marks the anniversary of the Grateful Dead’s first appearances in Colorado, at Denver’s Family Dog and a “Human Be-In” in City Park in 1967. To celebrate, David Gans, the [...]

In 1993, the James Brown Soul Center of the Universe Bridge was christened in Steamboat Springs, Colorado. Brown attended its dedication.