Courtney Love

Filmmaker Alex Cox on Repo Man, his next project and the beauty of black and white film

When filmmaker Alex Cox finished shooting Repo Man in 1983, the first thing he did with the left-over money was option the film rights to the science fiction novel Bill, the Galactic Hero. Now both projects are back in the spotlight. The Criterion Collection recently released a Blu-Ray edition of th ... 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 50 worst rock/pop lyrics: The Complete list

Well, here we are, at the end of the road of lyrical idiocy. As our countdown to crappiness finally culminates, we've trained our eye on some of the greatest lyricists in rock, who during select moments, greatly disappointed us with their valueless verse. These lyrics are all bad on their own terms, ... More >>

The 50 worst rock/pop lyrics of all time: 30-21

Just when you think the suck factor has been turned all the way up, here comes another batch of songs to push the needle further in the red. Today as the countdown of total crappiness continues, we've got tunes by Kid Rock, Nickleback, Michael Jackson, Sublime and more. Keep reading to see which son ... More >>

The lunchbox purse: hardly functional, subjectively beautiful, totally '90s

From 1993 to 1996, I carried a lunchbox as a purse. Now as an adult who carries what I call a Mary-Kate bag -- a black hole/abyss that holds keys, a liter of water, a wallet, various snacks, a change of clothes, a collection of Nora Ephron essays, a reporter's notebook, 700 pens and a ho-on-the-go k ... More >>

A bad romance: If I give up coffee, cigarettes and booze, am I still a writer?

I started smoking cigarettes when I was fourteen. Reading that sentence now, I am shocked -- mostly because I certainly wasn't participating in any other such risky behavior. I'd been "drunk" once before that (if you count puking after drinking a Bartles & James in the basement of my friend Sarah's ... More >>

Do I have what it takes to be a drag queen pageant judge?

I didn't have particularly soaring aspirations as a child. I wanted to be a fashion designer or a hair stylist -- it was the '80s, and those careers seemed very glamorous at the time. But I couldn't draw for shit and when I graduated high school at seventeen, my mom refused to let me go to hair scho ... More >>

Thanks for coming out, America: Are pop culture and politics on the same queer path?

Waking up on November 7, I felt like a million bucks. A million bucks that could breathe again, knowing that my president was still mine, my uterus was in the clear, and so many people had exercised the right to vote. That part, the voting part, was the most exciting, because after months of the imp ... More >>

Danny Marianino's fifteen minutes are definitely up

A teacher helps a community heal in Monsieur Lazhar

The Hole Truth

Wikipedia: How can we live 24 hours without you?

Say you're in the mood to look up a factoid about something odd -- like, for instance, the history of Velcro. So you go to Google, ignore the weird bar over the logo, and type in "Velcro" and "Wiki." A Wikipedia link appears, and a click brings it up -- but it vanishes an instant later. Oh my God! W ... More >>

Ke$ha rules, journalism drools

Britt ChesterEat it, journalism!​There are two distinct periods in the average American's life: high school and not-high school. For me, the farther I get from those formative ninth-through-twelfth-grade years -- 1994 to 1998 -- the cooler they seem to have been. Today, when I look back at say ... More >>

The Dirty Lookers

Audio Voyeur
Self-released

MTV's top five greatest on-air moments

A very pregnant Kim Gordon, flanked by band mate Julie Cafritz and KennedyOnce upon a time, before reality TV cheapened television programming as a whole, MTV (thirty years old today) was a bastion of music culture that actually showcased cutting edge artists for the sake of art. Because the network ... More >>

Top 5 Famous Writer/Musician Feuds

​Sometimes hurt feelings and death threats bring people closer together -- that definitely seems to be the case of the former web editor at our sister paper in Los Angeles, Erin Broadley, and shock-rocker Marilyn Manson, who once threatened to kill her. After the two met, they came to the real ... More >>

Country Strong is legitimately unintentional camp

Sara T. directs new Lust-Cats video and prepares to throw another killer dance party

Sarah CassLust-Cats of the Gutters team up with Sara T. for their first video.​Sara Thurston (aka DJ Sara T.) is in town from Los Angeles this weekend for another edition of Danceotron -- her "No Bullshit" dance party, now in its eighth year -- and she's also hard at work editing footage of Lu ... More >>

Lust-Cats of the Gutters have a few new Love interests

Behold Billy Corgan's lastest Twitter fails

​ It's becoming increasing more popular for celebrities and pseudo-celebrities alike to think the public still gives a rats-ass what they have to say. And it's no secret that Twitter is a giant bathroom stall waiting for the sharpie attack of a bored ex-rocker, but every once and a while it g ... More >>

Lust-Cats of the Gutters

Lust-Cats of the Gutters
Self-released

Top ten five blogs by bands

Photo courtesy of Kanyewest.com​ Last week, Kanye christened his new web site with the above photo of his girlfriend, Amber Rose. Then, Thom Yorke announced the name of his latest band on the Radiohead blog. Which got us thinking about the other band blogs we have bookmarked. In our bitchin' ... More >>

Lust-Cats of he Gutters at the Denver Creative Co-op Studio

Delegating Denver #6 of 56: California

The Ettes

Tuesday, February 20, Larimer Lounge, 303-291-1007.

Yeah Yeah Yeahs

Show Your Bones (Interscope)

Grind It Out With Pam

Exit the Matrix

The Matrix: Path of Neo is more chop suey than chopsocky.

Death Pool for Cutie

Check the Vegas odds: It's time to predict this year's rock-star deaths.

Whirled Music

Devendra Banhart has plenty to Crow about.

Critical Fatwa

Buzzy Blues

A blues enthusiast digs up the backstory on some red-hot mamas.

Getting Your Goat

For the Melvins' Buzz Osborne, grunge means never having to say you're sorry.

Backwash

Wilco weathers Reprise Records, in-fighting and an in-studio film crew in a new documentary.

Bang to Hype

At SXSW, it's all about the buzz, not the Buzz Band.

Yoko Ono

Blueprint for a Sunrise (Capitol)

Backwash

The Down-N-Outs call it quits, while Turnsol turns over a new CD.

Backwash

It's a Man's world when Denver's one-person punk band takes the stage.

Backwash

Hemi Cuda's new CD is thick and tasty.

Check Your Zed

After a period out of the public eye, Remy Zero continues to create its own poets' society.

Modern-Day Calvinism

How a small band of insurgents led by K Records co-founder Calvin Johnson helped fashion a punk revolution.

All About Eve

Feedback

Playlist

Witless in Seattle

In Like Flynt

STICK A FORK IN IT

FOR ALL INTENTS AND PURPOSES, LOLLAPALOOZA IS DONE.

RAVAGING BEAUTY

THRILLS

PLAYLIST