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2009 Stories by Jon Solomon

• Avett Brothers top seller at Bart's CD Cellar

  published Oct 08, 2009

  The Avett Brothers' I and Love and You, released last week on American Recordings, grabbed the top spot at Bart's CD Cellar for the week ending October 4. Jay-Z's The Blueprint 3 and Alice in Chains' ... More >>

• Mariah Carey grabs top spot at Independent Records

  published Oct 07, 2009

  Mariah Carey's Memoirs of an Imperfect Angel, released last week on Island, grabbed the top spot at Independent Records for the week ending October 4. Black Give Way to Blue, Alice in Chain's first al... More >>

• Last Night: Juliette Lewis at the Fox Theatre

  published Oct 07, 2009

  Juliette Lewis, the Ettes, American BangFox TheatreTuesday, October 6, 2009Better than: Lewis' show with the Pretenders and Cat Power this past August. I wasn't expecting much before seeing Juliette L... More >>

• The Joy of Sax

  published October 8, 2009

  Tenor saxophonist and composer Fred Hess is comfortable playing songs by Lester Young, Ornette Coleman and pretty much everyone in between,... More >>

• Avett Brothers top seller at Twist and Shout

  published Oct 06, 2009

  The Avett Brothers grabbed the top spot at Twist & Shout for the week ending October 4 with their latest effort, I and Love and You. Black Gives Way to Blue, the first new Alice in Chains recordin... More >>

• Marty Jones & the Great Unknowns

  published October 8, 2009

  Onetime Westword contributor Marty Jones knows a few things about boozing and singing, so it's no surprise that he'd dub his new... More >>

• Herb's is a music lover's — and player's — paradise

  published October 8, 2009

  I really wanted to play the sax when I was a kid, but ended up with the trombone, since a family friend let me borrow one. I got pretty good at... More >>

• Emmylou Harris, Keller Williams, Warren G shows announced

  published Oct 06, 2009

  Emmylou Harris, who was inducted into the Country Music of Hall of Last Year, visits the Macky Auditorium Friday, November 20 in support of her latest effort, All I Intended to Be. Buddy Miller, who b... More >>

• Om top seller at Wax Trax

  published Oct 05, 2009

  Stoner rockers Om grabbed the top spot at Wax Trax for the week ending October 4 with their latest effort, God is Good, released last week on Drag City. Muse's The Resistance and Raekwon's Only Built ... More >>

• Over the weekend: Endotrend Festival

  published Oct 05, 2009

  Maybe it was the last minute switch of venues from the Auraria Campus to the 3 Kings Tavern and Oriental Theater, but it was pretty slim turn-out for Saturday night's section of the festival at 3 King... More >>

• Kanye West tour canceled/Paramore show rescheduled

  published Oct 02, 2009

  Kanye West and Lady Gaga's Fame Kills tour, which was just announced on Monday, has been canceled. The tour was to include a stop at the Pepsi Center on December 2 and tickets were scheduled to go on ... More >>

• Kanye West, John Fogerty, Reverend Horton Heat shows announced

  published Sep 30, 2009

  Kanye West and Lady Gaga are taking their 34-city Fame Kills tour on the road, and that includes a stop at the Pepsi Center on Wednesday, December 2. Word has it that the two, who share equal billing ... More >>

• I Love Luthier

  published October 1, 2009

  The title sounds exotic, but a luthier is simply someone who makes or repairs stringed instruments. Still, there’s nothing simple about this... More >>

• Meet Coles Whalen, a burgeoning Nashville Star from Denver

  published October 1, 2009

  Four year ago, Coles Whalen moved out of her apartment and into a pickup truck with a camper. She says she decided if she was going to make... More >>

• Ivory Drive

  published October 1, 2009

  Nearly half the cuts on Ivory Drive's debut album sound as though they were ripped from the pages of the Ben Folds Five songbook, only with sax... More >>

• "Add It Up" and Get Your Irish Up at Scruffy Murphy's

  published October 1, 2009

  The only time I saw the Violent Femmes was when the Milwaukee-based trio played a short, energetic set on the counter of Wax Trax Records in... More >>

• Jay-Z top seller at Independent Records for third week in a row

  published Sep 28, 2009

  Jay-Z's The Blueprint 3 was Independent Records' top seller for the third week in row and Five Finger Death Punch's War is the Answer, released last week on Prospect Park, and Pearl Jam's Backspacer n... More >>

• Monsters of Folk grabs top spot at Twist and Shout

  published Sep 28, 2009

  Monsters of Folk, which features M. Ward, My Morning Jacket's Jim James, and Bright Eyes' Conor Oberst and Mike Mogis, grabbed the top spot at Twist & Shout with their self-titled debut. Pearl Jam... More >>

• Pearl Jam top seller at Bart's CD Cellar

  published Sep 28, 2009

  Backspacer, Pearl Jam's ninth studio effort, grabbed the top spot while David Gray's Draw the Line and Mark Knopfler's Get Lucky nabbed the second and third slots at Bart's CD Cellar for the week endi... More >>

• Fiery Furnaces, Nitzer Ebb, 3OH!3 shows announced

  published Sep 23, 2009

  This week wasn't quite as insane with show announcements as last week, but we did still get the line on a fair amount of decent gigs. The Fiery Furnaces, touring in support of its eighth album, I'm Go... More >>

• Skream at Bass Invasion, Cervantes'

  published September 24, 2009

  Dubstep is slowly but surely becoming one of the hottest flavors of dance music out there, and U.K.-based producer/DJ wunderkind Skream... More >>

• Science Partner is the other half of Dualistics guitarist Tyler Despres's musical persona

  published September 24, 2009

  It's just a week before Dualistics guitarist and singer Tyler Despres is slated to release the debut five-song EP of his new side project,... More >>

• GT & the Sidewinders

  published September 24, 2009

  As far as album titles go, GT & the Sidewinders found a perfect one with Across America. The album's pretty much about traveling in one... More >>

• Over the weekend: Jen Korte & the Loss at the Walnut Room

  published Sep 22, 2009

  rJen Korte & the Loss The Walnut RoomFriday, September 18, 2009Jen Korte and the Loss recorded most of the tracks on her new self-titled album live in the studio and there's an immediacy and cohes... More >>

• Get a read on the Sports Book, LoDo's new sports bar with a twist

  published September 24, 2009

  While the Ballpark neighborhood still has the town's highest concentration of sports bars, the 1400 blocks of Market and Blake streets could... More >>