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The ten worst hip-hop Christmas songs

Every holiday season, we're blessed with great renditions of classic Christmas songs to warm our spirits, but along with that also comes a lists of well meaning yuletide flops. This is especially the case in hip-hop, in which rhyming about Christmas has not always produced the best results. Here are ... More >>

Ten sad, strange and sexy Christmas songs

It's less than a week until the fat man in the red suit shimmies down the chimney, and we've already heard "White Christmas," "All I Want For Christmas Is You" and every other traditional song you can think of at least a thousand times since Thanksgiving. But there are a few songs out there, well-wr ... More >>

Joystick to the World

Five worst American bands playing Irish music

Much has been made of the politically incorrect sin of appropriating a culture that is not your own. From the blackface minstrel shows of the 19th Century to the hippies finding sacred Native American beads and headbands to be some pretty groovy threads, Americans have been tripping over the cultura ... More >>

Hey, Facebook: Nervesandgel wants your noise

​Johnny Wolfhart, aka experimental noise-ist Nervesandgel, is working on a new track, and he's chosen to collaborate with everybody -- well, everybody in his social network anyway. Earlier this week, Wolfhart put out a call to his Facebook friends, asking for thirty-second to two-minute audio ... More >>

Guitar Hero franchise overdoses and dies

​In a statement alongside it's quarterly and annual fiscal report, Activision, the company behind the Guitar Hero series, effectively put the axe on the series. Over the course of the last two years, the series has seen dropping sales due to a market that's completely saturated and an expensiv ... 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 >>

Elle Fanning outshines her adult co-star in Sofia Coppola's Somewhere

Letters: Scum of the Earth Church is punk in name only

Letters: Reader: "I blame the liberal media for the death of our nation"

Behold this seizure-inducing Christmas display soundtracked by, uh, Slayer's "Raining Blood"

​Not to be outdone by that radiculous Guitar Hero display from last year, we happened upon another dude in SoCal who created this audacious light show soundtracked by Slayer. While we'd love to tell you how amazing it is, you're just going to have to watch it for yourself -- we're too busy sei ... More >>

Soundgarden cheats its way to a Platinum release: Here are five more bands that could use the boost

​ Soundgarden was just certified Platinum for sales of its best-of album, Telephantasm (which, incidentally, has the worst cover art of the year, beating out Hurley by a long shot) generated in one day. On the surface, this sounds like one hell of an accomplishment, until you read the fine pr ... More >>

When was the last time you played a music video? Here's "Inside a Dead Skyscraper," to fill the void

​You can chalk this one up as one of the more brilliant ideas of July 2010: "Inside a Dead Skyscraper" is an interactive music video (aka "music video game") from Jesse Stiles' Target Museum album. You read all that correctly -- it's a music video you can play. The video itself comes from Ita ... More >>

Move over, Guitar Hero and Rock Band, Power Gig is made for real aspiring guitarists

​ In case the heated debate between music games being viewed as a teaching tool or as a hindrance wasn't convoluted enough, a new guitar related peripheral is attempting to make its way into the already crowded and slightly confusing market. Meet Seven 45 Studios' Power Gig: Rise of the Six S ... More >>

Why the Rock Band Network is the Greatest Innovation Since Colored Buttons

Ever since the launch of Harmonix's Guitar Hero in 2005 there has been an ongoing debate between musicians and gamers about the legitimacy of the multi-colored guitar peripherals in regards to teaching people how to play. We're not going to weigh in on the debate, but with the introduction of the Ro ... More >>

Top Ten Cover Songs of the Decade

Arcade Fire goes undercover.​There have been billions of songs written in the last decade but sometimes it's not the new ones that matter, it's the reimaginings. Some people argue a great cover song is decided by it's accuracy to the original, others want something new to be brought into the m ... More >>

OMG! Douglas County teens face horrors of sexting

​I am back from the front lines of the kiddie porn wars with some shocking news: The prosperous, sprawling suburbs of Douglas County conceal a steamy underbelly of underage sexual exhibitionism. Youth are being exploited right and left. Usually by each other. Sexting -- the insidious, techno ... More >>

Bowled Over

Love the Fray? The Flobots? Then bring it on!

Q&A with Joe Perry of Aerosmith

Photo by Ross HalfinJoe Perry, right, and his Aerosmith brethren, between hospital visits. In Rolling Stone's list of the greatest guitarists of all-time, Aerosmith's Joe Perry placed 48th -- a ranking capable of slackening the jaw of any true rock-and-roll fan. This former Toxic Twin has penned on ... More >>

Things you see on the Fox 31 morning show

​For reasons that remain unclear, I worked this morning with Fox 31 morning show playing silently on the nearby TV. Just so you don't worry that you missed something while driving to work, here are some of the stories I caught: - An update on the Michael Jackson death investigation with a TMZ ... More >>

Tech: Let me tweet you a secret

Psst: Want to know a secret? Shenae Von Liebt did, so she asked a few friends via Twitter to tell her theirs. "I was reading one of my Post Secret books while waiting in church's parking lot," she recalls. "I was bored with it and tweeted for everyone to text me a secret of theirs. Someone then t ... More >>

A Very Scantily Clad Holiday

3 Kings brings back a Christmas favorite.

Moovers & Shakers 2008: Backbeat scribes weigh in on their favorite local releases of the year

The Color Purple

Rock Hard

Copper Mountain’s Guitar Town brings the music to you.

Rearview: The Week in Review (7/12/08-7/18/08)

Live Review: The Ideal Fathers, I’m a Boy, the Bluebird Equation at Larimer Lounge

Hero We Go Again

Fake-instrument overload offers plenty to fret about.

45 Second Reviews: pureNRG, Puscifer, Robyn, Santogold

Paging Freaks

Guinness writes the book on gaming, but doesn't shatter any records.

Q&A With the Jonas Brothers

Q&A With Laurent Barnard of Gallows

Axes to Grind

The Guitar Hero frenzy careens toward overkill.

The Fight Is On

45 Second Video Game Reviews

Almost Famous

It's never been easier to start your own (fake) band.

Wii the People

Video games have grown up. I haven’t.

Quality, Like Spelling, Matters Not at KollegeTV

How can you portray college life at CU without a date-rape joke?

Shred Cred

You wanted the best, you got the best: Guitar Hero III.

This Weekend: The Wheel, Gregory Alan Isakov, Porlolo and Bela Karoli @ hi-dive

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.

Letters to the Editor

From the week of 6/21/2007

This Just In…

The latest nightlife news.

Encore Performance

Don't fret. Guitar Hero II kills the opening act.

Puddle of Fun

LocoRoco is the perfect one-night stand.

Beat Down

This DJ simulator is nothing to rave about.