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Ten unsolved Colorado murders: Read personal stories of the victims

The Families of Homicide Victims and Missing Persons website draws attention to unsolved murders, and we tried to do likewise in three posts last year -- in May, September and November. The ten crimes featured in this installment include two of the most famous unsolved crimes in Boulder history: the ... More >>

Photos: See what streets will be nightmares due to President Obama's visit

This afternoon, President Barack Obama is scheduled to make an appearance in the Denver area as part of his continuing advocacy of tougher gun-control laws -- like the ones recently signed in Colorado. It's always exciting to have the POTUS in town, even if he seemed to be here every other day durin ... More >>

The Black Keys at 1STBANK Center, with the Arctic Monkeys, 4/30/12

BLACK KEYS @ 1STBANK CENTER See Also: • Slide show: Black Keys at the 1STBANK Center • Q&A with Nick O'Malley of Arctic Monkeys • The Black Keys at Fox Theatre, 7/20/09 A clear sign that shit is about to get real: Patrick Carney takes off his glasses and gets straight to it. The lanky drumm ... More >>

Weekend's best live music bets: Sleigh Bells, Cults, Heartless Bastards and more

TGIF! You've worked hard all week, now it's time to coast into weekend. Plenty of great music on tap to help you unwind -- or get wound-up, as the case may be. Tonight at the Ogden, Sleigh Bells assaults the senses, Mojo Nixon kicks off a two-night stand at the Lion's Lair, JJ Grey and Mofro get the ... More >>

Beer, beer, beer -- and wine, tequila, sake and more -- on this week's culinary calendar

​Our cups runneth over with beer events this week -- including the sold-out Great American Beer Festival this weekend. But there are also events for wine, tequila and sake enthusiasts taking place, on top of more beer events than you can shake a salted pretzel at. (And feel free to remind us i ... More >>

Crave Real Burgers in Castle Rock meats expectations

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Update: Devo at the Denver County Fair tickets go on sale

​Update: Yay! DEVO Tickets went on sale at 10 a.m. this morning! Get yours at the Denver County Fair website. It's official: As previously reported here a few weeks ago, Barry Fey joined the Denver County Fair fold to help Dana Cain and Tracy Weil wrangle a high-profile act music headliner fo ... More >>

Rory Block on the struggles and triumphs that happen When a Woman Gets the Blues

​Rory Block (due April 21st at Rock and Soul Café in Boulder and on April 22nd at Swallow Hill in Denver) was fortunate to be at the epicenter of the roots music explosion of the late '50s and early '60s as a child in Greenwich Village. Block rubbed shoulders not just with Bob Dylan and Pete ... More >>

Out-of-state brewers are flooding Colorado with their latest and greatest beers

​While some Colorado brewers have been pulling their beers out of other states recently, breweries from other states continue to try their luck in Colorado, where craft beer seems to flow in the streets like water and in the veins of its residents like blood. Since the beginning of 2011, at l ... More >>

Swans at Summit Music Hall, 2/22/11

Tom MurphySwans​ SWANS With Wooden Wand 02.22.11 | Summit Music Hall Last night, James Jackson Toth, aka Wooden Wand, was joined by two other guitar players -- Brian Lowery and William Tyler. And although there were three guitars and the guys were playing through Orange amps, they did not pr ... More >>

Marijuana election round-up: More losses than wins for MMJ in Colorado

​While the big weed setback last week might have been the defeat of California's Proposition 19, marijuana didn't fare too well in Colorado, either. As per the state's new medical marijuana laws, local officials are now allowed to ask voters whether or not their communities should allow dispen ... More >>

Medical marijuana election: 26 cities and towns vote on new MMJ rules next week

​While a move to follow California's lead and put the legalization of marijuana on next week's state-wide ballot didn't come to pass, many Colorado voters will still asked to vote about pot issues on November 2. That's because many cities, towns and counties put measures dealing with medical m ... More >>

Chrissie Hynde and JP Jones on foreign films and making honest music

​ Chrissie Hynde is not one to romanticize the past, but she's done plenty that almost anyone else who has done even a tenth as much would be right to feel proud. In the mid '70s, Hynde moved from her home town of Akron, Ohio, to London, England, and landed in the midst of what was fast-becom ... More >>

ICE arrests focus on criminal aliens: 78 busts include man convicted of making terrorist threat

​These days, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, better known as ICE, emphasizes that it's targeting criminal aliens, not otherwise law-abiding citizens who lack documentation authorizing their U.S. residency. And that's the theme of ICE's latest Colorado busts. Of the 78 people rounded up fr ... More >>

Margot and the Nuclear So and So's to tour in support of Buzzard, forthcoming new record

​Ah, yes, what a splendid birthday present (okay, it isn't exactly our birthday, but close enough). It seems one of our favorite bands, Margot & the Nuclear So and So's, a group we've long been smitten with since first making its acquaintance at South Park some years ago, has a new album slate ... More >>

What is it about Fat Tire that drives East Coast beer drinkers wild?

FlickrA sight that would make East Coasters drool.​Earlier this week, Asylum.com declared Fat Tire Amber Ale America's Next Top Beer. The web page - a New York City-based AOL men's interest site - had held a voter-driven contest to determine what beer should be in coolers from coast to coast. ... More >>

Charlie Sheen just the latest example of Colorado's domestic-violence laws

​Charlie Sheen didn't study his Colorado legal history before he headed to Aspen for a vacation last Christmas. Three decades ago, Colorado was at the cutting edge of recognizing the dangers of domestic violence. The first battered women's shelters in the country were established here, and Co ... More >>

Sam Taylor's gets to the meatless of the matter

​It's hard to imagine anything more meaty than BBQ. It is a cuisine based entirely on the flesh of the pig, the cow and, in some cases, the chicken. So it's no surprise that a BBQ joint owner might hang up on a sales rep trying to sell him vegan meat substitutes. That's certainly happened a l ... More >>

Over the Weekend: The Black Keys at The Fox

Kiernan Maletsky The Black Keys, Jerry Joseph & The Jackmormons Friday, July 17 The Fox Better Than:Engine oil under your fingernails, sweat running down your back and your car in good working order once again. Zero frills. A white drum kit with two toms and three cymbals, a bag of extra sticks h ... More >>

The Westword.com blog shortcut, April 2 edition

That's using your noodle. Chopstick to it. Today in Cafe Society: • IACP Conference Report: Drunk and in possession of press credentials. • IACP Conference Report: Food writers are good in bed. • Veggie Girl: US Thai Cafe. • Mini Bar set to open in April. • Green Energy: Jason Sheehan is ... More >>

Young Coyotes to release pair of EPs next month

Young Coyotes have been together less than a year, but in that short time, the act has already embarked on an extensive cross country tour, attracted a high powered manager in Blee Music's Brian Swartz (Rose Hill Drive), and, most noteworthy, generated a substantial buzz locally. In what literally s ... More >>

Q&A with author Chuck Klosterman

The glass was half full at Red Rocks' Monolith

If you're a music fan, you'll be at Monolith this weekend — and this is what should be on your must-see list

Monolith Festival: The eight bands you can't miss

Tip Sheet: Young Coyotes

Monolith Announces 22 More Acts

Monolith Line Up Announced

Alan Parsons as Living History and Other Assorted Goodies

Freeloader

The best in legitimate, artist-approved downloads.

Togetherness

The Daily Camera's new boss prepares to share.

Akron/Family & Angels of Light

Angels of Light & Akron/Family (Young God)

The Message

Teaming Up

Joseph Arthur

Friday, December 3, Bluebird Theater, 303-322-2308.

Uphill Racer

Jim Gronen steers clear of his boyhood Derby scandal.

Spaced Out

Combining everything from hardcore to free jazz, New Ancient Astronauts have all the right stuff.

Critic's Choice

Black Keys

Black Keys

Thickfreakness (Fat Possum)

Demolition Band

Judas Priest carries on with life after Halford.

Metal Meltdown

Marky Mark becomes a Rock Star, but he doesn't get to enjoy it.

Giving Golf What Fore!

Tiger, Tiger, still burning bright.

Tin Huey

Disinformation
(Future Fossil Records/P.O.S. Records)
Complete Recordings 1987-1989
(Innerstate Records)

Judgment Day

Backbeat contributors offer up their favorite recordings of 1999.

Playlist

Ralph Carney, Charlie Haden Quartet West, Enemymine, Styx

The Oblivion Express

Comeback attempts by acts that should just go away.

Corner Market

The 50,000-Yard Man

DEAD BALL ERA

STRANGE BUT TRUE

DRIBBLES AND BITS AND BITS AND BITS.