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Kitaro was already widely recognized throughout Asia and other parts of the world when he unified his work for worldwide distribution circa 1986. Suddenly, the American market burst open for the [...]

As a songwriter, Chuck Berry stood head and shoulders above rock ’n’ roll’s early stars. The majority of his output was self-penned, and during the second half of the 1950s he added new hits to [...]

The band Rush announced that Neil Peart, one of the most virtuosic drummers in rock music history, died on January 7, 2020 at age 67, after battling brain cancer. Peart, a gracious and kind man, [...]

The dietary needs of Elvis Presley made his other pursuits appear tame. “The King” once flew from Memphis to Denver to fetch a concoction from the now-defunct Colorado Mine Company restaurant in [...]

The Colorado Flood of 2013 impacted communities all across the state, creating significant hardship for hard-working Americans. To get them back on track, Hard Working Americans, a collaboration [...]

The Eagles were the archetypal California band of the 1970s. Their name was synonymous with the country-rock movement that sprang up in Los Angeles. But the act’s first-ever concerts were in Colorado.

In the 1990s, Pearl Jam had its turn as rock’s hottest new band. The Seattle quintet’s debut album Ten sold more than five million copies in the United States. In late 1993, the Vs. album debuted [...]

Hailed as one of rock’s few emerging superstar acts of the late ’90s, Dave Matthews Band came out of Charlottesville, Virginia, in 1991, its success fired by a tenacious do-it-yourself approach. [...]

In 1959, Tommy Facenda made the national charts with one of the most unusual—and difficult—novelty discs of all time.