Email Author Michael Roberts

Awards

• 2009 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published December 11, 2008

  "The Rocky Mountain News is Going Down"

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2001 Stories by Michael Roberts

• Various artists

  published December 27, 2001

  As film critics everywhere have pointed out, the first Ocean's Eleven, released in 1960, isn't much of a movie. The assorted "actors," led... More >>

• Tricks of the Trade

  published October 25, 2001

  Selling out hasn't been as simple as Tricky imagined.The former Adrian Thaws made reviewers swoon with 1995's Maxinquaye, a moody,... More >>

• Aaliyah

  published September 13, 2001

  Writing reviews of recordings by freshly dead artists is a tricky business that frequently results in overrating, a critical embarrassment that... More >>

• High and Dry

  published September 13, 2001

  Although its members insist otherwise, my guess is that Tha Alkaholiks changed their name to Tha Liks mainly to ensure that their new disc,... More >>

• Size Matters

  published September 6, 2001

  If anyone should understand the pitfalls of being labeled, it's DJ/producer Roni Size. Back in 1997, on the release of his innovative platter... More >>

• Rammstein

  published August 23, 2001

  In one of those ironies with which popular culture brims, Marilyn Manson was tarred with the stain of the Columbine shootings even though the... More >>

• Ginuwine

  published July 26, 2001

  The popularity of tough-nosed hip-hop continues to present challenges to R&B vocalists. Soulsters who go too heavy on sentiment, eschewing the... More >>