Elton John

A Towering Fall

Best Glasses on a TV Personality

Greg Moody, Channel 4

Overcasters SXSW tour diary

photo by Erin Tidwell and Kurt Ottaway (click to enlarge)Saturday, March 20: The sun burned off most of the cloud cover as the crowd continued to swell. In the Bat Bar, the Von Bondies tuned up all of their gear for a DirectTV taping, then launched into a near perfect set of fuzzy soul blues mixed i ... More >>

Lavish is easy on the eyes

photo by Erin Tidwell and Kurt Ottaway (click to enlarge)Saturday, March 20: The sun burned off most of the cloud cover as the crowd continued to swell. In the Bat Bar, the Von Bondies tuned up all of their gear for a DirectTV taping, then launched into a near perfect set of fuzzy soul blues mixed i ... More >>

Larytta

Difficult Fun
Creaked Records

Yule's Tide

Searching for gems in the flood of seasonal discs.

Playlist

Searching for gems in the flood of seasonal discs.

Bar Back

The latest nightlife news.

Timbaland

Timbaland Presents Shock Value
Blackground/Interscope

Scissor Sisters

Ta-Dah (Universal/Motown)

The Buzzcocks

Tuesday, July 18, Bluebird Theater, 1-866-468-7621.

Popera Songs Are Forgettable

The Arvada Center's well-staged Aida is sumptuous eye candy.

Family Plot

Digging up Funeral for a Friend's Denver connection.

ODB

A Son Unique (Def Jam)

Boys Night Out

Trainwreck (Ferret Music)

Scissor Sisters

Monday, September 20, Bluebird Theater, 303-322-2308.

Flip Out

Pinball Showdown pits game fanatics against machines

Pinball Wizards

Become part of the machine at Lyons Classic Pinball.

Pop Goes the Heartbreak

Death Cab for Cutie lays the sorrow on sweetly.

Playlist

Death Cab for Cutie lays the sorrow on sweetly.

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OUR READERS REVEAL THE OTHER OVERPLAYED CLASSIC-ROCK SONGS.ONCE MORE WITH FEELING

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OUR READERS REVEAL THE OTHER OVERPLAYED CLASSIC-ROCK SONGS.ONCE MORE WITH FEELING

Nostalgia and nausea: Putting together the perfect '80s mix

You've had the experience. You're driving in the car or Pandora-ing or even - gasp! - listening to the radio when that song comes on - the one you can't believe you forgot all about. Instantly, you're transported in time and space - back to that kegger during your freshman year when you got so ... More >>

Billy Joel & Elton John, Bebel Gilberto, Imogen Heap shows announced

​Billy Joel and Elton John, both legendary pop singers and pianists, have been on their Face 2 Face tour since March will visit the Pepsi Center Sunday, November 22. After opening the show with a series of duets, each playing pianos and trading vocals, Joel and John will play sets with their own b ... More >>

This Just In: Billy Joel and Elton John show rescheduled

​Billy Joel and Elton John's Face 2 Face show originally scheduled for Sunday, November 22 at the Pepsi Center has been pushed back to February 22. Any tickets purchased for this Sunday's show will be valid for the rescheduled date, and refunds are available at point of purchase. The two have have ... More >>

Q&A with Janet Weiss of Quasi

​ Since 1993, Quasi has released a series of albums underscoring the fact that sad songs don't have to sound like surrender. Instead, as Quasi's material often displays, there can be a feisty defiance to the inner grey skies and rain. The act comprises yeyboardist Sam Coomes, who played in He ... More >>

Springsteen, Lady Gaga, Elton John and more cover Journey's Don't Stop Believin'

So uh, ahem, well, this happened. During a benefit show for the rain forest an all-star cast of performers spent much of the evening doing cover songs, all culminating in a collection of the crew doing Journey's "Don't Stop Believin'." We can't help but giggle a bit at the absurdity of what is e ... More >>

Escape the heat and put on the ritz at Elway's Downtown

​The Place: Elway's Downtown, 1881 Curtis Street, 303-312-3107 The Hours: Daily from 2 to 7 p.m. The Deals: $3 draft beers; $5 select wines by the glass; $7 select martinis; select appetizers are half price. The Digs: The Ritz-Carlton is gorgeous -- and so is Elway's, the ritzy hotel's in-h ... More >>

Scissor Sisters

Monday, September 6, Ogden Theatre, 303-830-8497.

Five Reasons to love Scissor Sisters, even if you aren't a gay man

​ Once upon a time, pop music -- like the rest of American popular culture -- was in closet. From Liberace and his floor-length furs to George Michael's dangly earrings, gay men were marketed as female conquests. Thankfully minds and attitudes have (for the most part) evolved, and a band like ... More >>

Sacha Baron Cohen as Freddie Mercury? Here's who should play the other members of Queen.

​Last week, Deadline reported that Sacha Baron Cohen, of Borat and Ali G fame, is lined up to play Freddie Mercury in an untitled biopic. Although the majority of his work has been in parody, Baron Cohen is a nearly perfect fit, and a we don't doubt his intentions for a moment. Even still, a b ... More >>

Glee features bread bag designed by Boulder studio Mighty Fudge... next to Grilled Cheesus!

Local bread bag and holy sandwich.​A cameo on the red-hot-high-school-musical-dark-comedy-Jane-Lynch-extravaganza Glee is nothing to sneeze at, even if that cameo involves nothing more than a glimpse of an unexceptional bread wrapper. That's why Boulder animation studio Mighty Fudge is all atw ... More >>

Kings of Leon, Deerhunter, Lil Wayne top sellers at local record stores

​While it isn't a huge surprise, Come Around Sundown, Kings of Leon's fifth studio album, released last week on RCA, claimed the top spots at both Albums on the Hill and Twist and Shout, and checked in at number two at Independent Records, behind Lil Wayne's I Am Not a Human Being. Deerhunter' ... More >>

Elton John & Leon Russell, Lil Wayne, Bob Dylan, Women top sellers at local stores

​Elton John and Leon Russell's The Union , released October 19 on Decca, took the top spot at Albums on the Hill and came in second at Twist & Shout for the week ending October 31. Lil Wayne's latest effort, I Am Not a Human Being, continues to stay on top at Independent Records, while Hed P.E ... More >>

Pops With a Pop Star

​Elton John and Leon Russell's The Union , released October 19 on Decca, took the top spot at Albums on the Hill and came in second at Twist & Shout for the week ending October 31. Lil Wayne's latest effort, I Am Not a Human Being, continues to stay on top at Independent Records, while Hed P.E ... More >>

Tonight: Guilty Pleasures with DJ Tonyo at Lost Lake Lounge

​A "guilty pleasure" can mean a lot of things: to a music listener, it is usually in reference to an artist you wouldn't be caught dead listening to in public. But tonight, DJ Tonyo and crew bring their version of the guilty pleasure to Lost Lake Lounge, and we must say, he shouldn't be embarr ... More >>

Manitou Springs brings the olde-timey weirdness

​Wherever you go, chances are that not too far away from you is a hidden gem tucked away in some off-the-path corner of the landscape, a weird little spot that somehow got bounced off the flatbed of time and just kind of stayed there -- to find it, you just have to know where to look. Where I' ... More >>

Stock show apologizes for gay jokes, Brokeback Mountain banter at Saturday rodeo

​Update: The spokeswoman for the stock show has responded to our post and acknowledged that mistakes were made. See her comments below our original item. I was sitting in the stands of the rodeo at the National Western Stock Show on Saturday night, watching men wrestle steer to the ground, wh ... More >>

Gnomeo and Juliet is this week's most ridiculous trailer

​Once upon a time, when garage/post-hardcore was at the apex of its popularity, a friend and I came up with the concept for Black Back Lotion, a band that would -- this is hilarious! -- only do Black Black Ocean covers. Like many other concepts that start with a play on words, the joke pretty ... More >>

All Of The Lights video: Is Kanye West actually going small?

​Either the third or fourth (depends if you count the leaked but never released "Monster" monstrosity) video from Kanye West's My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy came out over the weekend, for current single "All of the Lights." And after all the billionaire, art house, heaven-and-hell enormity ... More >>

Elton John, Ray LaMontagne, Iron & Wine shows announced. Tickets on sale this weekend.

​Elton John is performing at the Wells Fargo Theatre on Tuesday, April 12 to benefit the Matthew Shepard Foundation, founded by Dennis and Judy Shepard in memory of their 21-year old son, Matthew, who was murdered in an anti-gay hate crime in Wyoming in October 1998. Tickets ($49-$149) go on s ... More >>

Rock and Roll Hall of Fame class of 2011: Apathy and antics

Getty Images​A bunch of old white dudes and Darlene Love got trophies yesterday at a fancy hotel in New York. We're referring, of course, to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees, an institution that exists to reaffirm our canonical certainties. This year's class: Love, Tom Waits, Alice Coo ... More >>

Scissor Sisters

Sunday, March 20, Ogden Theatre, 303-830-8497.

Tonight: Greyson Chance at the Gothic

​Just one of the many acts birthed in the last half-decade thanks to YouTube, thirteen-year-old Greyson Chance -- due at the Gothic Theatre tonight with Cody Simpson and Camryn -- could still be considered a bit of an anomaly in his own right. Unlike his pop contemporaries, the 'tween's adorat ... More >>

Ballet Up To the Barre

​Just one of the many acts birthed in the last half-decade thanks to YouTube, thirteen-year-old Greyson Chance -- due at the Gothic Theatre tonight with Cody Simpson and Camryn -- could still be considered a bit of an anomaly in his own right. Unlike his pop contemporaries, the 'tween's adorat ... More >>

Katy Perry's "Kathy" the latest rockstar alter-ego

Is that you, Katy Perry?​It's no secret Katy Perry has a wicked sense of comedic timing. Remember when her Sesame Street appearance didn't air and she donned a skin-tight Elmo t-shirt and bounced around on Saturday Night Live as Maureen the sixteen-year-old who just hit puberty (and hard)? No ... More >>

The Muppet Show's Top 10 musical guests

​It's time to play the music! It's time to light the lights! Are you excited? We are. Gosh, we are. We've been breathlessly awaiting this day for what seems like forever. But then, we're nerds like that. You know what today is, right? Why, it's the day that the new Muppets movie hits theaters, ... More >>

Girl Walk // All Day director Jacob Krupnick on the mash-up of Rick Ross and ballet

Girl Walk // All Day star Anne Marsen​It's like a mash-up of mash-up: The film Girl Walk // All Day takes the manic moods of remix master Girl Talk's 2010 record, All Day, and pairs it with a story of Girl and her city, told through dance. In advance of tomorrow's screening at the Denver Fil ... More >>

Look out, Gaga: Madonna's back to get all the "Luvin'" with a potent new drug called M.D.N.A.

Madonna could push Lady Gaga to the backburner this year, with a new album called M.D.N.A.​Forget Tim Tebow. From now until at least the day after the Superbowl, everyone's going to be talking about another figure in pop culture who had the religion thing down pat long before Tebow did: Madonn ... More >>

Super Bowl commercials: Elton John, Flava Flav, Echo and the Bunnymen and more

See also: Top 5 Greatest Super Bowl halftime shows So we all know that half the fun of watching the Super Bowl is seeing all the commercials. If you missed them for whatever reason -- your loud mouth buddy was yapping about this that or whatever, or maybe you had to work and you don't want -- we' ... More >>