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21. Calhoun

    Send North High's principal to detention

    By Patricia Calhoun

    Published: May 14, 2009

    School Daze Against all odds, Michael Ballez will be graduating from North High School this year. Those odds include: the classmates who've dropped out, one by one, until...

22. Ask A Mexican

    Wherefore art thou, Old Mexico?

    By Gustavo Arellano

    Published: May 14, 2009

    Dear Mexican: My wife is from Michoacán state. We've bought a home in the small town of her birth. I love everything about the quiet little place. Even her mother is...

23. Calhoun

    Colorado Public Employee Appreciation Week lasts a day

    By Patricia Calhoun

    Published: May 14, 2009

    Shortly after midnight on Saturday, May 9, all state employees received this e-mail from Julie Postlethwait in the Department of Personnel & Administration: "This past...

24. Letters

    From the week of May 14, 2009

    Published: May 14, 2009

    "Craigslist Unclassified," Bradley Campbell and Matt Snyders, May 7 A Killer App When I saw the bloody keyboard image on the front of the May 7 issue, I got that sick...

25. Backbeat

    The young men of Havok prove their metal

    By Dave Herrera

    Published: May 14, 2009

    I can't even drink yet," notes Havok frontman Dave Sanchez. "But I've probably played and been inside more bars than people who are 25 years old." One look at Sanchez, whose...

26. Rough Mixes

    The Jim Jims reinvigorate the past on Bottom of the City

    Published: May 14, 2009

    The Jim Jims formed in March of 2007 when Adam Martin and Tony Terrafranca reformed an older musical project and ditched the name Dirty Yellow T-Shirt. With new members came...

27. Rough Mixes

    Mike Watt may be middle-aged, but he's still a young punk at heart

    By Matt Scheidler

    Published: May 14, 2009

    Mike Watt, the autodidactic, blue-collar-intellectual elder statesman of punk rock, is back with another punk-rock opera. After spending five and a half years in the Stooges'...

28. Bar Back

    Hooked on jazz at Jack's

    By Jon Solomon

    Published: May 14, 2009

    It's always been a challenge to lure foot traffic from the 16th Street Mall to a club three levels up at the Denver Pavilions — and it's especially challenging now, with...

29. Playlist

    Wentworth Kersey

    EP (O)
    Plastic Sound Supply

    By Eryc Eyl

    Published: May 14, 2009

    Jeffrey Wentworth Stevens and Joseph Kersey Sampson return with a second EP of eccentric, atmospheric cowboy pop in which Sampson's plaintive vocals and obliquely melancholic...

30. Playlist

    The Nod

    Twisted Romance
    Fistmusic

    By Tom Murphy

    Published: May 14, 2009

    With a lot of heavy rock leaning toward doomy and psychedelic, it's refreshing to hear an EP like the Nod's Twisted Romance, where solid, catchy hooks are favored over sludgy...

31. Playlist

    Delby L

    Nine Skies
    Fake Four Inc.

    By Michael Roberts

    Published: May 14, 2009

    Producer Steve Albini is typically thought of as a noise-master — a guy capable of taking a rough sound and turning it into something even rougher. But he takes a...

32. Playlist

    Gregory Alan Isakov

    This Empty Northern Hemisphere
    Self-released

    By Andy Thomas

    Published: May 14, 2009

    Following in the tradition of artists like Elliott Smith and Nick Drake, Gregory Alan Isakov has the ineffable ability to convey a wide variety of emotions without ever raising...

33. Now Hear This

    Flight of the Conchords and Iron and Wine

    Saturday, May 16, Red Rocks Amphitheatre, 303-830-8497.

    By A.H. Goldstein

    Published: May 14, 2009

    Talk about an unlikely combination. The meditative sounds of Iron and Wine, driven by the earnest lyrics and Travis picking of frontman Sam Beam, usually make for a calm and...

34. Now Hear This

    Lady Sovereign

    Monday, May 18, Bluebird Theater, 303-830-8497.

    By Tom Murphy

    Published: May 14, 2009

    Though very young, Louise Harman, performing under the moniker Lady Sovereign, has already made a mark for herself and broken unspoken barriers; in the male-dominated world of...

35. Now Hear This

    Modern Creatures

    Monday, May 18, Rhinoceropolis, 303-641-9809.

    By Tom Murphy

    Published: May 14, 2009

    Vancouver, British Columbia, is a rich breeding ground for experimental bands of all stripes, and this act is one of that scene's shining stars. Listening to Modern Creatures...

36. Now Hear This

    Cloud Cult

    Tuesday, May 19, Bluebird Theater, 303-830-8497.

    By Michael Roberts

    Published: May 14, 2009

    Director John Paul Burgess's No One Said It Would Be Easy is more than a simple documentary about Cloud Cult, a Minnesota group that shares this bill with Say Hi and Ice...

37. Now Hear This

    Horse Feathers

    Wednesday, May 20, Bluebird Theater, 303-830-8497.

    By Michael Roberts

    Published: May 14, 2009

    House With No Home, the latest album by Horse Feathers, is a positively gorgeous bummer. The Portland, Oregon-based combo (currently gigging with Joe Pug) is fronted by Justin...

38. Critic's Choice

    Accordion Crimes at the Larimer Lounge

    By Tom Murphy

    Published: May 14, 2009

    Anyone looking for a more sanitized version of pop music would do well to steer clear of the bands on the Siltbreeze label. In the world of lo-fi indie rock, the dirty,...

39. Scratching the Surface

    Tipper at the Gothic Theatre

    By Cory Casciato

    Published: May 14, 2009

    Well known for his intensely idiosyncratic approach to music, top-notch sound design and prolific output, the enigmatic Tipper has made waves throughout his career. Early on,...

40. Cafe

    The "gastropub" label aside, Jonesy's EatBar is great

    By Jason Sheehan

    Published: May 14, 2009

    "Gastropub," Leigh Jones said. "Really?" I asked. "No." So she asked why, and I told her because I hate the term "gastropub" — seriously loathed it. It reeks of...