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A few weeks later, Flobots returned and opened Fourth of July weekend with a powerful take on what the United States has been at its worst and could be at its best. The timing of this July 2 show couldn’t have been better; it should become an annual tradition at Levitt. So many Independence Day celebrations are jingoistic displays of grotesque nationalism, paying tribute to the ghosts of long-dead slave owners without a blink. These festivities ignore centuries of brutality and struggles for...

Westword’s January 26 report that Mayor Michael Hancock has seen the newly dropped video “Message to the Mayor” by Kid Astronaut (Jon Shockness), Apostle (Jeff Campbell), Bumpy Chill (Adrean Jones), Kingdom (Jeffery McWhorter) and Mizta Sandman (Shannon Richardson), in collaboration with producer Mic Coates. The experience of this powerful new work exposes the continued deadly injustice of the City of Denver’s policies toward our houseless neighbors. These most vulnerable of our citize...

The song, released as a music video on January 21, features a catchy chorus sung by Kid Astronaut, aka Jon Shockness of Air Dubai, an award-winning local hip-hop band. "Mayor Hancock, the streets need you, you promised to do something, but we don’t believe you. Mayor Hancock, the city needs you, you promised to do something, but we don’t see you," Shockness sings during the chorus. "This is just an ask to say, is there more that can be done?" explains Shockness, who just dropped a new albu...

lyere chuckles a bit at their temporary breakup. “It happens,” he says. “It was a growing experience for me. I fine-tuned my sense of manhood when I went to Denver, because I was challenged by a lot of experiences. The experience with Seth was one of those challenges. But there is always going to be love there, because Seth is my brother.” Evans moved to Brooklyn and lyere to Los Angeles to work on different projects, and they drifted apart. This year, though, Evans finished mixing an...