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When the world of popular music became just a mouse-click away, Colorado’s Pretty Lights—the creation of Derek Vincent Smith—built a following by offering his music for free.

Rusty Young got his musical start in Böenzee Cryque, a Denver-based band whose odd moniker was inspired, perhaps apocryphally, by the local business sign on an appliance store. Getting local [...]

Created by Trey Parker and Matt Stone, South Park, the Comedy Central television network’s controversial and wildly successful animated sitcom, became infamous for lampooning a wide [...]

One of five children, Stacie Orrico sang at church and in school as a child. At home she listened for hours to pop divas and R&B artists while singing along in front of the mirror.

In the music business, the busiest guy of his generation may be Ryan Tedder. The singer-songwriter built a dual career—as frontman for the Denver-based OneRepublic, and as a prolific and visible [...]

Coming out of the fluid California scene of the late 1960s, the pioneering Nitty Gritty Dirt Band was initially an acoustic jug band. With a core of Jeff Hanna, Jimmie Fadden and string wizard [...]

Recording at Caribou Ranch in 1977, Carole King was on the lookout for a backup band. Dan Fogelberg, who lived in neighboring Nederland, suggested Boulder’s Navarro.

Led by Patti Smith look-alike Marc Campbell, the Nails began their musical life as the Ravers, Colorado’s punk rock forefathers.

Born May 25, 1877 in Philadelphia, Billy Murray and his family moved five years later to Denver, where he spent most of his early years expressing an interest in show business.