Axl Rose

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

Delegating Denver #18 of 56: Indiana

Q&A With Matt Tuck of Bullet For My Valentine

Bender’s Ball

Looks Like He Made It

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

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 >>

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 >>

Best jukebox

Goosetown Tavern

Kronow

Tenfold (HapiSkratch)

Best Tribute Band

Rocket Queen

Bullet for My Valentine Takes Aim

Are these guys the new face of British metal?

Mini Reviews

Mini Reviews

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.

My Dinner With Barry

Returning to true north at the Northwoods Inn.

Heavy Mettle

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

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

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

Playlist

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

Q&A with Kevin Devine

Photo by Denny DoesKevin Devine. Singer-songwriter Kevin Devine, the subject of a profile in this week's Westword advancing his Sunday, May 24 gig at the Marquis Theatre with Miniature Tigers, The Rouge and Brian Bonz, is the rarest of interview subjects: a guy who listeners carefully to every ques ... 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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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

Brandon MarshallCorey Taylor at the Gothic Theatre on SaturdayCOREY 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, Tayl ... 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 >>

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 >>

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

Dan FongHarry Tuft (from left) and Barry Fey, the next inductees into the Colorado Music Hall of Fame.​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 slate ... More >>