Flaural is one of Colorado’s best bands, even if it’s hardly ever here

If there’s anything as laidback professionalism, Flaural has it. Seated across a wooden table at the RiNo pub Pon Pon last week, the members of the Denver rock band — all of fashionably scruffy dudes inside their mid-to-late 20s — sounded relaxed but strategic, sipping on hair-of-the-dog beers and sparkling water below a hot, bright
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Commentary: Chris Brown headlining Summer Jam is a stain on Denver

With so much progress made toward sex and sexual equity — both legal and cultural — because the dawn of the #MeToo movement in overdue 2017, I was disappointed last week to see promoter Live Nation touting convicted domestic-violence felon Chris Brown because the headliner for KS 107.5’s annual Summer Jam concert. Isn ’t even the
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Denver Botanic Gardens, Telluride festivals announce summer concert lineups

Telluride is currently preparing for another year of music with a pair of announcements on its own festival scene. The Telluride Jazz Festival will present a lineup which uses the expression “jazz” as liberally as other festivals bearing that genre, using a mixture of jazz, blues, jam-band, Americana and more. Festival passes for the Aug.
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