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2000 Stories by Laura Bond

• Critic's Choice

  published December 28, 2000

  Time seemed to be on the side of Los Hombres Calientes, who appear Thursday, December 28, at the Fox Theatre in Boulder, when the six-piece... More >>

• City Sounds

  published December 21, 2000

  Around this time of year, the recording industry slows down and enters a kind of commercial hibernation. With the exception of a preponderance of... More >>

• Backwash

  published December 21, 2000

  Back in October, Mayor Wellington Webb announced the city's plans for an exhaustive New Year's Eve celebration that would center on the... More >>

• Critic's Choice

  published December 21, 2000

  Starlight Mints, Friday, December 22 at Tulagi in Boulder, with DeVotchKa, began its life as a kind of skewed seven-piece orchestra --... More >>

• Hit Pick

  published December 21, 2000

  Despite a name that might suggest otherwise, Worm Trouble, Thursday, December 21, at the 15th Street Tavern, with Hi Fidelity and the... More >>

• Backwash

  published December 14, 2000

  As the Denver area resonates with the sounds of the season, there's a death knell ringing through Broomfield. Last week, the board of directors of... More >>

• Critic's Choice

  published December 14, 2000

  Michelle Shocked, with Sonny Landreth, Sunday, December 17, at the Boulder Theater, has always presented a deft combination of punk... More >>

• Backwash

  published December 7, 2000

  Heard some news this morning that set my wheels a-churnin': Johnnie Johnson, the guitarist/lyricist who helped design the... More >>

• Shine On

  published November 30, 2000

  It's nearing eleven o'clock on Monday, Open Stage Blues night at the Atrium Bar and Grill. In the corner, five musicians -- mostly middle-aged... More >>

• Backwash

  published November 30, 2000

  The Internet is a strange thing, indeed. Damien McCarron, lead Celt of the Indulgers, has noticed a significant increase in traffic... More >>

• Critic's Choice

  published November 30, 2000

  Rockabilly's endurance continues to defy those who regard the genre's resurrection as more of a fashion statement than a musical movement. While... More >>

• Hit Pick

  published November 30, 2000

  Ah, the holiday season is upon us, a time when even the most hardened individuals feel compelled to give a little something extra of themselves.... More >>

• Backwash

  published November 23, 2000

  Born in Santa Fe, New Mexico, Adrian Romero spent many years in Denver as the frontman of Love Supreme, an enigmatic outfit whose... More >>

• Critic's Choice

  published November 23, 2000

  With the release of Sweet Bird of Youth, the Rock*A*Teens, Wednesday, November 29, at the 15th Street Tavern, with Kudzu Towers and Witter... More >>

• Backwash

  published November 16, 2000

  A friend of mine commented this morning that a George Bush presidency might actually be good for the arts world -- not because, as some... More >>

• Shrine On

  published November 9, 2000

  From the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel to the glow-in-the-dark Madonnas that line the counter at your friendly, neighborhood 99-cent store,... More >>

• Backwash

  published November 9, 2000

  Ah, well, another election come and gone. Come January, Mr. What's-His-Name will start having his L.L. Bean catalogues forwarded to Pennsylvania... More >>

• Moment of Truth

  published November 2, 2000

  Looking back on it now, the film roles Corey Feldman played in the late '80s and early '90s might have been some kind of predictor of the trouble... More >>

• Backwash

  published November 2, 2000

  When the Denver-based Modern Drunkard magazine ceased publication in 1998 -- after a two-and-a-half-year run that yielded eleven issues... More >>

• Hit Pick

  published November 2, 2000

  Local guitar auteur Neil Haverstock (pictured) is among the new leaders of the microtonal movement, a compositional philosophy that eschews... More >>

• Century Madness

  published October 26, 2000

  Denver isn't likely to be confused with the City That Never Sleeps; rather, our mile-high municipality seems to enjoy a good night's rest, as... More >>

• Backwash

  published October 26, 2000

  These days, the bohemian types who live on the Lower East Side of New York are more likely to be addicted to hypertext than to heroin. Savvy bands... More >>

• Critic's Choice

  published October 26, 2000

  For all the differences that seem to exist between their audiences, jam bands and dance artists have more than a few things in common: Both create... More >>

• Backwash

  published October 19, 2000

  With all of the upheavals in the Denver radio market these days, the climate of competitiveness seems to have everyone ready to launch a defensive... More >>

• Hit Pick

  published October 19, 2000

  It seems you can’t be a member of Zeüt, Saturday, October 21, at Herman’s Hideaway, with Mind Go Flip and the Choir Boys, if you don’t p... More >>