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The enormous impact of MTV’s revolutionary all-video format of the early 1980s transformed a slew of artists into iconic acts. Brian Brainerd’s portrait photography cemented the golden age of [...]

A pioneering band in many ways, Queen assembled a brash, theatrical stage act well before glitter bands emerged as a potent pop vehicle.

By 1969, it was beginning to dawn on people that most of the decade’s rock icons weren’t functioning. The Beatles hated each other. Bob Dylan had become a recluse. Jim Morrison’s encounters with [...]

Nestled in the foothills of Morrison, Colorado, 20 minutes from downtown Denver, Red Rocks is a geologic phenomenon—an acoustically perfect amphitheatre not duplicated anywhere in the world, a [...]

Chris Wood is one-third of Medeski Martin & Wood, one of America’s hottest instrumental groove bands and a surprising pop music phenomenon—an organ-bass-and-drums trio with neither a guitar nor a [...]

Tag Team’s “Whoomp! (There It Is)” was every B-boy and B-girl’s jeep-ready anthem in the summer of 1993. The slammin’ slang caught fire nationwide after Chicago Bulls fans shouted it during the [...]

Photographer Michael Goldman captured nearly every one of Tom Petty's Colorado performances over the decades. This collection is culled from Michael's archives exclusively for the Colorado Music [...]