Alisha Sweeney picks her top 10 acts to catch at this year's Denver Post Underground Music Showcase (UMS) from July 24-27.

Mike Flanagan takes you through his top music books of the past year to add to your summer reading list!

We're off to the land down under on Retrofit this week with an hour of Australian bands from then and now.

In the age of musical prefixes (alt-this, post-punk that, neo-, retro-, psych-, etc.), it’s nice to have a band that plays it from the heart with fire in the belly.

One recurring element in pop music that never fails to amuse me is something I call a “talk down,” in which the artist stops singing and opts instead for a mid-song spoken word interlude that lays it all out for the listener. Here are 13 notable examples.

Join OpenAir's Keefer Fulgham and Jessi Whitten on Saturday, June 7 at Meininger Art Supply for the SESH, a free program curated by the Denver Post Underground Music Showcase (UMS) featuring five music industry professionals sharing their experiences in marketing music and events.

Join host Mike Flanagan for fun in the sun on Retrofit with an hour of solar power entitled "Here Comes the Sun." Shine on, Saturday, May 31 at 5 p.m. and SUNday, June 1 at noon!

Last week Playboy.com tweeted their review of Neko Case's excellent 2013 record. They claimed she is "breaking the mold of what women in the music industry should be," and the musician quickly took offense.

The stars of the two-time Tony award winning musical "American Idiot" dropped by the studio ahead of this weekend's final run of their massive tour.

Host Mike Flanagan takes Retrofit into the Deep Garage this week, with classics and modern examples of over-amplified thunder, snaky organs, and the kind of reverb that could pop the needle out of the groove.