The event has long been a signal of summer’s start, and here are our five don’t-misses for this year’s Five Points Jazz Festival.

Google on Wednesday launched a subscription-based music service, allowing users of Android phones and tablets to listen to their favorite songs and artists for a monthly fee.

Both Uncle Nasty and Keefer — two popular local radio personalities — endured the latest Clear Channel purge and now have new gigs.

On Wednesday at the Fillmore Auditorium, the So-Cal sextet with the Ivy League professor front man showed they still have what it takes. Sure, there’s a little less hair, a little more paunch, a couple more streaks of grey and fewer onstage antics, but they play and sing with the energy and – perhaps more importantly – the passion that has always been the stamp of a Bad Religion song.

Everyone from the young to the ancient will find something fun to listen to on Reverb’s Evil Dead playlist on Spotify.

This week’s best Denver hip-hop tracks are full of inspiration, rebellion and paying dues.

Happy Monday, banditos. This week we’ve got electro-pop with a twist from Sean Renner at a five-finger discount.

Victor Wooten philosophized with us on growth through purposeful mistakes in a talk with Reverb before heading to Colorado Saturday.

Northern Denver was treated to a free show Thursday night when Redman, Roman Ramirez of Sublime with Rome and Naughty by Nature brought the Exdo Event Center “back the ’90′s,” as put by Treach of the classic hip-hop trio.

Vespa wipeouts take down two members of the hard rock band, delaying the recording of their new album.