Timmy Merz of long-running Denver punk outfit Red Stinger was doing what pretty much everyone else was at the start of the pandemic: drinking beer on the couch and attempting to watch all of Netflix.
It’s surprising how musicals — theater’s most cheerful, enlivening form — can successfully descend into horror. By many measures, it’s so: “The Phantom of the Opera” has seen more total performances ...
Riot Days Revisited: It’s been clear and obvious since they formed in 2011 that Pussy Riot is not an ordinary band. It’s a collective, performance artists, but their politics come first. Everything it ...
Fifty years ago, The Damned were lying to pub owners just to get booked. Now they’re playing the Sydney Opera House. If that ...
Green Day’s CD "American Idiot" is billed as a punk opera. But that doesn’t mean the band followed the trail blazed 35 years ago when the Who released rock’s first and still definitive rock opera, ...
Global superstar and Green Day vocalist Billie Joe Armstrong had somewhat one-dimensional ideas about musicals before green-lighting American Idiot, the amped-up rock opera debuting at the Berkeley ...
Over the last few years a number of bands, ranging from Brooklyn-based punk rock outfit Golem to indie stalwart Beirut, have found inspiration in the diverse sounds of Eastern European music. Just as ...