Axl Rose

Gaslight Anthem at the Ogden Theatre, 4/29/13

GASLIGHT ANTHEM @ OGDEN THEATRE |4/29/12 Gaslight Anthem performed last night with a fluidity and emotional power worthy of peers like Hot Rod Circuit or Hot Water Music or perhaps even the E Street Band. Gaslight is clearly informed by punk, as edges of the band's guitar sound recalled Hüsker Dü, ... More >>

The ten biggest assholes in rock

Feuds, tantrums, threatening to kill the president -- if you've been following rock music for the past few decades, you know that dickish behavior comes with the territory when your job involves a stage and adoring fans. Here we've assembled the reprehensible cream that has risen to top, highlightin ... More >>

The ten traits of the perfect frontperson

The best frontmen and women all have something in common. Whether it's their ability to connect with a crowd or the swagger with which they carry themselves, their fashion sense, the intrigue that surrounds them or their reckless disregard for their own well being, they all have that ineffable "it" ... More >>

The late Leslie Haseman on Barry Fey's busted zipper, a case of this is so not what it looks like

On Wednesday, March 6, Barry Fey will be inducted into yet another hall of fame, this one the Denver & Colorado Tourism Hall of Fame. In honor of his induction, we'll be running the stories that didn't make his memoir all this week. Today, the late Leslie Haseman with a story she shared before she p ... More >>

Pam Moore on the insanity of Feyline, from flying staplers to puking kids to doing coke

On Wednesday, March 6, Barry Fey will be inducted into yet another hall of fame, this one the Denver & Colorado Tourism Hall of Fame. In honor of his induction, we'll be running the stories that didn't make his memoir all this week. Today, Pam Moore shares what it was like to work with the Man, the ... More >>

What you didn't read in Barry Fey's memoir: Barry turned throwing phones into an artform

On Wednesday, March 6, Barry Fey will be inducted into yet another hall of fame, this one the Denver & Colorado Tourism Hall of Fame, and that couldn't be more fitting. Next to sports, music is probably our state's biggest attraction, and we have Barry Fey to thank for that. Before Barry, Colorado w ... More >>

Is it time to quit dismissing the taste of teenage girls and start appreciating Justin Bieber?

By Brittany Spanos At what point did teen girls suddenly just become wrong? "Serious" music fans seem to have universally accepted a critique of quality that befalls any artist who willingly sells to the rabid teen girl market and stigmatized the fans who dare to sometimes be male or at least above ... More >>

Guns N' Roses Appetite for Destruction turns 25

See Also: - Remembering Randy Rhodes thirty years after his tragic death -The Beatles' Sgt Pepper turns 45 -The Rolling Stones' Exile on Main Street turns 40 -Jimi Hendrix's Are You Experienced turns 45 In the early 1980s, a red-haired, Midwestern boy named William Bailey stepped off a bus in New Y ... More >>

With the help of a psychic, Barry Fey reconnects with some old friends and one bitter adversary

See Also: Barry Fey on that time that he held a gun to Axl Rose's head Harry Tuft and Barry Fey inducted into the Colorado Music Hall of Fame Red Rocks' famous hidden tunnel: A peek at the rock star signatures Dan Fong's unpublished rock photos on display this Friday at the Gallery This year, Barr ... More >>

Tom Cruise leads an all-star sing-along in Rock of Ages

Is vinyl still a viable format or as obsolete as pager technology in the age of smart phones?

Today, the Denver Record Collectors Spring Expo is taking place at Ramada Plaza in Northglenn (I-25 and 120th). For a $2.00 admission, you can sort through a treasure trove of vinyl from over forty dealers from all over the country. While there will also be CDs, posters and other stuff available at ... More >>

Review: Korn at the Fillmore Auditorium, 2/28/12

KORN @ FILLMORE AUDITORIUM | 2/28/12 The most distracting element of any modern Korn concert is not the spectacle. It's not Fieldy's glow-in-the-dark bass or Jonathan Davis' epileptic writhing or the fact that, completely confident and decked in all black, the nu metal foursome looks like a pack of ... More >>

Barry Fey and Harry Tuft's Colorado Music Hall of Fame induction ceremony moved

As reported here last month, Barry Fey and Harry Tuft are on deck to become the next inductees into the Colorado Music Hall of Fame. Due to an increased demand, the ceremony, originally slated to take place at the Dal Ward Athletic Center on the University of Colorado Boulder campus, has been moved ... More >>

Review: Guns N' Roses at 1STBANK Center, with Black Label Society, 12/11/11

Eric GruneisenGUNS N' ROSES at 1STBANK CENTER | 12/11/11 Some bands wait until the end of the set or an encore to pull out its most beloved material. Not Guns N Roses. Two songs into the set, the instantly familiar guitar riff was teased two, maybe three times, before Axl Rose cried out, "Do you k ... More >>

Guns N' Roses guitarist Dj Ashba on that time his pal Neil Diamond urged him to join GNR

​Guns N' Roses (due Sunday, December 11 at 1STBANK Center) is a household name at this point and hardly needs an introduction. During the late 1980s, Guns proved that you could come out of L.A. and not have songs that were just thinly disguised paeans to sexual conquest. Guns didn't go for t ... More >>

Photos: Corey Taylor of Slipknot and Stone Sour at the Gothic Theatre, 11/19/11

COREY TAYLOR at the GOTHIC THEATRE | 11/19/11This past Saturday at the Gothic, fans were treated to a softer side of Corey Taylor, the charismatic frontman of Slipknot and Stone Sour. On tour in support of his Seven Deadly Sins book, Taylor returned to Denver, which he considers a second home, and p ... More >>

Barry Fey on that time that he held a gun to Axl Rose's head and how the business has changed

​For years, Barry Fey says, music fans have been needling him to write a book. "You know, people have been saying 'When's the book? When's the book?' for fifteen years," Fey notes. "It was daily, wherever I would go out... 'When's the book? Come on, you've got to write a book!'" Well, he final ... More >>

Reader: Guns N' Roses -- "Anyone willing to pay for that deserves what they get"

​In an open letter to fans on gunsnroses.com from 2008, Axl Rose took questions by those criticizing him for soldiering on with GNR without Slash and the other dudes head on: "Why keep the name? I'm literally the last man standing. Not bragging, not proud. It's been a fucking nightmare but I d ... More >>

Ozzy Osbourne at the Pepsi Center, 2.8.11

Aaron ThackerayHey, look: It's the Prince of Fucking Darkness, man!​ OZZY OSBOURNE With Slash 02.08.11 | Pepsi Center Ozzy Osbourne layeth the smack down last night at the Pepsi Center with Slash -- he of the shaggy mane, top hat, Velvet Revolver and, of course, Guns N' Roses -- in tow. A c ... More >>

TAG's Social Hour: Another round, please

​The Place: TAG, 1441 Larimer Street, 303-996-9985 The Hours: Monday through Friday from 2 to 6 p.m The Deals: $5 specialty cocktails and select wines by the glass; $5small plates The Digs: TAG's "social hour" is available at the bar, as well as on the patio fronting Larimer Square. The bar ... More >>

It's official: Justin Bieber more badass than Axl Rose

Well, it's official. Guns 'n' Rose frontman Axl Rose is less of a man than Justin Bieber, and we have the video evidence to prove it. As you'll see in the video above (skip to 1:20 or so if you want to avoid the histrionic intro to "Welcome to the Jungle"), Rose basically throws a fit and threaten ... More >>

Drake/Hanson NYC riot? You call that a riot? Pffth! Here's ten real concert riots.

Perhaps you've heard by now about the "riot" that happened a few days ago in New York surrounding a free concert featuring Drake and Hanson. Weird that there was a riot at a concert featuring two of maybe the blandest performers ever to exist. Weirder still is that Hanson and Drake were even perform ... More >>

Top Ten Metal Albums of 2008

In a year worthy of your rage, metal delivered in spades. What with the economy circling the drain and Sarah Palin coming down from the tundra and then refusing to go back, 2008's been the kind of year that really makes you want to smash your head into walls or punch random strangers in the face. Go ... More >>

The Westword.com blog shortcut, November 19 edition

The Fray are waiting for you. The hits just keep on comin'. Today in Backbeat Online: • The Fray is previewing new songs live at Snow Daze in Vail. • Talking golf and rock in a Q&A with Dead Confederate's Hardy Morris. • Apollo Sunshine's Sam Cohen gets the Backbeat Q&A treatment, too. ... More >>

Bender’s Ball

Bullet for My Valentine Takes Aim

Are these guys the new face of British metal?

Q&A With Matt Tuck of Bullet For My Valentine

Mini Reviews

Mini Reviews

Delegating Denver #18 of 56: Indiana

Q&A With Slash From Velvet Revolver/Guns N' Roses

Velvet Revolver Seek Libertad

Slash touts his new band as everyone’s celebrating the old one.

Buckcherry

Monday, February 5, Ogden Theatre, 1-866-468-7621.

Listen Up

Fast reviews of recent releases

Elvis Lives

Vietnam House is a rock star.

Rock On, Write Off

This time of year is taxing, even for rock stars.

Buckethead

Thursday, November 10, Bluebird Theater, 303-322-2308; Friday, November 11, Fox Theatre, Boulder, 303-447-0095.

Straight Shooter

Roll over, Waylon: Shooter Jennings comes out with guns blazin'.

It Dies Today

Saturday, June 4, Gothic Theatre, 303-788-0984.

Velvet Revolver

Tuesday, April 26, Magness Arena, 303-830-8497.

Best Tribute Band

Rocket Queen

My Dinner With Barry

Returning to true north at the Northwoods Inn.

Kronow

Tenfold (HapiSkratch)

Heavy Mettle

Harlan Hendrickson wants to prove that '80s rock and roll is not noise pollution.

Best jukebox

Goosetown Tavern

Looks Like He Made It

Reviewers have tried to get rid of him for years, but Barry Manilow's not going anywhere.

Playlist

Return of the grievous angel--a tribute to Gram Parsons, The Road Kings, Paul Westerberg

The Oblivion Express

Comeback attempts by acts that should just go away.

A Fish Tale

Instead of capitalizing on the electronica craze, Moby is going his own way.

Spirit of '76

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