Subject: 3 Kings Tavern

• Emily Francis Prepares for Takeoff

  August 23, 2007

• This Just In…

  August 30, 2007

• Denver Art Rock Collective

  November 1, 2007

• American Relay breaks up, final show this Saturday night

  Damn it! What a punch in the gut. Seriously. If this isn't a sucker punch, we don't know what is. Earlier this afternoon, one of Denver's more visceral live acts, American Relay -- the subject of this week's Critic's Choice -- announced its split. The soul-drenched, positively combustible duo comprised of Nick Sullivan and Alex Hebert will be playing its final show in the Mile High City this Saturday night at 3 Kings Tavern and releasing the followup to its excellent 2007 debut, Corn & Oil.

  June 17, 2009

• Zombie Hate Brigade sign with Crash Music

  Zombie Hate Brigade with Troma president and co-founder Lloyd Kaufman Just got word that local grindcore band Zombie Hate Brigade have signed with Crash Music, a national label out of Phoenix that focuses on heavy metal and rock. The band's debut release on Crash will be an expanded, multimedia-enhanced CD of their recent self-released self-titled album. Fans will get the original disc, plus lyrics, two more songs, all-new (and totally awesome) artwork and the video for "I wanna put my JUNK in S

  June 26, 2009

• American Relay at 3 Kings Tavern

  June 18, 2009

• Punk Products

  December 13, 2007

• Wheelin' and Dealin'

  April 27, 2006

• 3 Kings owners finalize purchase of the Oriental Theater

  There's been rumors swirling for the past two or three months regarding the Oriental Theater, the most intriguing (and viable) of which being that the owners of 3 Kings Tavern, Jeff Campbell, Jim Norris and Marty Kilorin, were in the process of negotiating the purchase of the theater. While we received confirmation from the trio a while back that they were indeed interested and actively working to acquire the theater, they opted not to discuss specifics until the deal was finalized. Well, the de

  July 7, 2009

• Clutch, Airborne Toxic Event, Chickenfoot Shows announced

  Michael Anthony, Sammy Hagar, Joe Satriani and Chad Smith are ChickenfootOn the surface it might seem a bit strange throwing Joe Satriani, Sammy Hagar, Van Halen bassist Michael Anthony and Red Hot Chili Peppers drummer Chad Smith together, but the four apparently gelled so well that they decided to form a band under the Chickenfoot moniker. Last fall, they knocked out album helmed by famed producer Andy Johns at George Lucas' Skywalker Studios and they'll be hitting the Fillmore Auditorium Frid

  July 16, 2009

• Over the weekend: UMS Festival

  Julie Davis of Bela Karoli (A.H. Goldstein)​Last night, the four-day UMS festival wrapped, and most of our crew made it out for at least part of the fest. And while we rarely agree on anything, we're all pretty much in agreement that Danielle Ate the Sandwich absolutely stole the show with one of the breakout performances of the fest. Other highlights included Boba Fett and the Americans guerilla style marching band performances outside the Skylark and hi-dive on a drizzly Saturday night, whic

  July 27, 2009

• Bands for Lands introduces Ticket-Tees

  ​For the last decade, Bands for the Lands has used live music and other arts to further the cause of conservation and sustainability. The Denver-based non-profit will take that one step further with the introduction of the the Ticket-Tee at concert featuring Black Sheep Brigade, Primasonic, Light Travels Faster and Bedsit Infamy Friday, August 14 at 3 Kings Tavern. The eco-friendly shirt that also functions as an admission ticket to related events like the Endotrend art, music & film festi

  July 30, 2009

• 3 Kings needs your songs about weed and pinball

  ​The folks at 3 Kings Tavern are in the process of updating their jukebox and they need your help. They're creating a couple of mix CDs based around the timeless subjects of weed and pinball, and they're soliciting input on what to include. The request includes the plea to, "Please keep hippie suggestions to an absolute minimum" and one would assume they've already considered the obvious selections in each category like the Who's "Pinball Wizard" for pinball and the entire discographies o

  August 10, 2009

• John "Whip" Wilbur about the death of Indie 101.5 and the rise of Indie303.com

  John "Whip" Wilbur.​No one tried harder to save Indie 101.5 -- a station discussed in a just-published interview with Max Media Denver president and general manager Jeff Norman -- than its music director, John Wilbur, known to one and all as Whip. In January, he stepped from behind the microphone to launch a campaign on behalf of the exciting but low-rated outlet, and in May, he urged advertisers to sign up if they wanted to prevent the format from vanishing. Nevertheless, Max Media's owne

  August 13, 2009

• MP3 Freeloader: Download a song from Chad Price's new solo album

  ​Update: Thanks to our friends at Suburban Home Records, we've got our hands on a track for Chad Price's forthcoming record, which we've posted after the jump for your downloading pleasure.Hot on the heels of Vistor's Band, Jon Snodgrass's excellent solo record, Chad Price, the other half of the almighty Drag the River, has completed work on his solo album, Smile Sweet Face. Recorded at Black In Bluhm with Chris Fogal (Tauntaun, the Gamits), the disc purportedly features Price's songs in a sta

  August 27, 2009

• Today's featured events: These are a few of my favorite things

  ​What's that spring in your step? It's Friday and it's time to play! Seems like there's more than enough to do this weekend, but here are a few events I'd like to recommend. For art with a serious underground vibe, head on over to INDYINK, 84 South Broadway, for a cash-and-carry show of affordable works by the ingenious Westword Mastermind Ravi Zupa, which riff off of Dürer's skillfully detailed prints and drawings yet bloom conceptually out of modern concerns. INDYINK's Chris Huth says

  August 14, 2009

• The Rocket Room is an oasis of cool in Colorado Springs

  August 27, 2009

• The Rocket Room is an oasis of cool in Colorado Springs

  August 27, 2009

• Over the Weekend: Warlock Pinchers (almost) reunion at 3 Kings Tavern

  Murder in mind: Andrew Novick and Dan Wanush kill it on a few Warlock Pinchers tunes​Get Your Going, Murder Ranks and Caroliner Rainbow Sunday, September 6, 2009 3 Kings Tavern Better Than: Anyone but the performers could have hoped for. With Get Your Going you never really know what you're in for, and on this night, a big black podium sat in the middle of the stage bearing a sign that read "Crispin Glover Commemorative Puppet Show" in red letters. After a brief introduction from one animal p

  September 8, 2009

• The Westword.com blog shortcut, September 8 edition

  Photo by Aaron ThackerayBlink-182's Tom DeLonge.​Blink and you'll miss it. Today in Backbeat Online: • Over the Weekend: Blink-182 at Fiddler's Green. • Over the Weekend: Fell at Larimer Lounge. • Over the Weekend: Ween at Red Rocks. • Over the Weekend: Warlock Pinchers (almost) reunion at 3 Kings Tavern. • Get the Heyday on your iPhone. Today in Cafe Society: • Milking It: Cap'n Crunch's Race Car Crunch. • Tavern Hospitality Group introduces its own stimulus package. • B

  September 8, 2009

• The Endotrend Festival has some great ideas worth latching onto

  October 1, 2009

• Over the weekend: Endotrend Festival

  Yerkish​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 Kings. Although not many folks came out that night, there was still a lot of solid local talent, as well as a few national acts.

  October 5, 2009

• The Denver Boot: Murder Ranks at 3 Kings Tavern - 09/06/09

  ​A few weeks ago, we offered up a list of our dream reunions. You responded by offering up dream lists of your own. And as we've been out an about and the subject has been broached over beers, one local name keeps coming up -- the Warlock Pinchers, a now mythical act whose latent irreverence was matched only by its caustic wit. As it turns out, the band reunited last month -- well, as close as we're going to get to a reunion for the time being anyway, when Dan Wanush (aka King Scratchie) of Mu

  October 16, 2009

• The Hunt is On

  October 29, 2009

• Mustangs & Madras reaches the end of the line

  Jordana Sturaro​It's with more than a tinge of sadness that we report this next item: yet another promising Denver-based outfit has hit the skids. Mustangs & Madras, a post-hardcore act that unabashedly wore its heart on its sleeve like the best emo bands that inspired it, has decided to part ways. After three records and multiple tours, the members have succumbed to burnout. "There came a point where we felt we couldn't out-do ourselves on the last record we made," says guitarist Eddie Ma

  October 29, 2009

• Over the Weekend: Supersuckers at 3 Kings

  ​Supersuckers brought the supersuck at 3 Kings Tavern on Saturday. See photos by Aaron Thackeray on the slideshow page.

  November 9, 2009

• Q&A with Greg Hill of Six Months to Live

  ​Having released three albums in four years, Six Months to Live has been one of the most prolific of poppy rock and roll bands out of Denver. Formed by former members Mr. Tree and the Wingnuts, Six Months' membership has included Mendel Rabinovitch of Cabaret Diosa and Zack Littlefield of Sonnenblume. With the relatively humble goal of being a great rock and roll band, this quartet weathered the slings and arrows of playing the local circuit and became exactly that. These guys never assumed th

  November 12, 2009

• Freeloader: Blue Million Miles tonight at 3 Kings Tavern

  ​This fine evening, Blue Million Miles is sharing a bill at 3 Kings Tavern with Lion Sized -- whose members will be taking some time off to hangout with kinfolk and write and record a new record, which means this will effectively be its last show of the year -- and Accordion Crimes. In advance of the show, the Blue Millonaires hooked us up with a new track, "Pterodactyl," previously only available on Radio 1190's latest Local Shakedown disc, which, incidently, is quite good and also features n

  November 20, 2009

• The Weekend Showdown: Polytoxic's The Last Waltz Revisited leads our top picks for this weekend

  We would hate for you to miss out on all the awesome that happens every weekend in our fair city, so we've decided to run down three of the best shows in one easy-to-swallow post. Tell us -- and the rest of the world -- what we missed in the comments. 1. The Last Waltz revisited The Boulder Theater Friday, November 20 • Doors open at 8:30 p.m., $18Cervantes' Masterpiece BallroomWednesday, November 25, 2009 • Doors: 8 p.m., $18-$20 Why you should go: While our town is blessed with an unbel

  November 20, 2009