CDs out today
By Ricardo Baca | rbaca@denverpost.com | The Denver Post
The B-52's, "The Funplex" (Astralwerks)
It's been 16 years since the B-52's last released an album of new material, and all of the familiar voices are back for this new effort, including frontman Fred Schneider and the lovely Kate Pierson and Cindy Wilson. The band is touring behind this record, and its May 4 date at the Gothic Theatre is already sold out.
Counting Crows, "Saturday Nights and Sunday Mornings" (Geffen)
Did the world need another Counting Crows record? Either way, frontman Adam Duritz has said of this record, "It's about a flood of sin and liquor and dissolution and insanity, and it's about trying to rebuild the life you wrecked in the wake of that flood. It's about the way it feels. It's about me."
Ricardo Baca
Ricardo Baca is the editor of The Cannabist. After 12 years as The Denver Post's music critic and a couple more as the paper's entertainment editor, he was tapped to become The Post's first ever marijuana editor and create The Cannabist in late-2013. Baca also founded music blog Reverb and co-founded music festival The UMS.
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