Subject: Guns N' Roses

• Time for a Bolder Bolder Boulder

  May 30, 2007

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

  September 20, 2007

• Rock Band Comes Alive and Other Assorted Goodies

  March 3, 2008

• The Disorienting Post Modernity of Rutlemania and Other Assorted Goodies

  March 31, 2008

• Over the Weekend...Red Orange Yellow, Michael Trundle, Autokinoton and the Swayback @ Bluebird Theater

  April 7, 2008

• Live Review: the Threatened and the Wilder Situation at Larimer Lounge

  August 4, 2008

• The Beatdown

  Kiss me, I’m a rock star -- at least for one night.

  October 30, 2003

• Tommy Stinson

  Thursday, September, 2, Bluebird Theater, 303-322-2308.

  September 2, 2004

• Chinese Democracy leaked. Axl can't be stoked.

  Senator, we knew GN'R. GN'R was a friend of ours. You're no GN'R. Less than a week before its official release date, Chinese Democracy has reportedly leaked been posted on Guns N' Roses' MySpace page. Yep. The full album. Yesterday Today. After a bazillion years of build up, that's it. Just like that. As we write this, savvy internet users the world over are no doubt making up their own minds about whether whatever the hell Axl has been working on all these years when he wasn't under the kni

  November 19, 2008

• Rearview: The Week in Review (11/17/08-11/21/08)

  Leave the Gun. Take the cannoli. All eyes -- or ears, rather -- in the music world, including ours, were on Chinese Democracy this week. Most of us honestly never thought we'd live to see the release of the mythical Guns N' Roses record, and now that we had a chance to listen to it all the way through, we're sticking by our original assessment, based on hearing just a few songs: meh. Although parts of it are infinitely more listenable than expected, as a whole, it doesn't really seem to have

  November 21, 2008

• The Westword.com blog shortcut, November 21 edition

  David Guetta at Beta. Get ready. Get set. Read! Today in Backbeat Online: • A live review of David Guetta at Beta. • The Fray's new single makes its debut. • Checking out the Sisters of Mercy at the Ogden Theatre. • This weekend: A Sharon Rawles tribute at Herman's Hideaway. • Beyond Playlist: Reviews of new albums by Guns N' Roses, Kanye West and T-Pain. • Love .45 holds auditions for a new guitarist. • Rearview: The week in review. • Your Friday distraction is here. And j

  November 21, 2008

• The Westword.com blog shortcut, November 25 edition

  Betcha can almost taste that dead bird... Today in Backbeat Online: • "Anthem" by Born in the Flood (pictured) climbs One Tree Hill. • The Flobots score a Music Choice nomination. • The release of Frank Zappa's Lumpy Money is delayed. • Thirteen things that took less time than Guns N' Roses' Chinese Democracy. Sneak preview: Number one is "Jesus Christ dying and returning from the grave." Today in Cafe Society: • Thanksgiving Dinner Fantasy Draft: What dishes would you pick? • Cr

  November 25, 2008

• Mile High Makeout: My head is spinning

  Photo: Lucia De Giovanni Last night, I had the honor and privilege of guest deejaying at Matt Fecher's New Music Mondays at the Larimer Lounge, playing music from my collection next to the incandescent DJ Ginger and firestarter DJ Hot to Death. Ginger played a couple of body-rocking sets, including some frightening mash-ups, and Fecher, aka Hot to Death, unveiled some new remixes that blew the roof off. While I only rocked the iTunes (and a few pre-mixed sets that I put together ahead of time),

  January 6, 2009

• Good news, Woody Paige: Les Paul isn't dead yet

  It's always dangerous when sportswriters include music references in their columns. Such citations are typically moldy -- as, for instance, Rocky Mountain News staffer Bernie Lincicome's dopey mention of Loggins and Messina, who hailed from an era "when music was fun," he claimed in a December 7 piece. And all too often, they're misleading or wrong, too. Take Woody Paige's "Nuggets in Position to Stretch Win," from Sunday's Denver Post, which appeared following a Nugs victory over the New Orl

  January 7, 2009

• Bat'leth not the only creative weapon for would-be criminals

  Usually when someone wants to commit armed robbery, he'll bring along a weapon that combines stealth, convenience and anonymity -- a small gun, for instance. Not so one enterprising Colorado Springs man, who this week brazenly robbed one area 7-Eleven store (and tried to knock over a second) armed only with a bat'leth, broadsword bringer of pain and standard weapon of choice for many an honorable Klingon. The bat'leth bandit, as he's quickly become known, broke the warrior's code by using the

  February 6, 2009

• Velvet Revolver

  June 17, 2004

• The Beatdown

  August 5, 2004

• Best Tribute Band

  March 24, 2005

• They write the songs that make the whole world yak

  January 8, 2009

• Behold the hard rock and hijinks of Forth Yeer Freshman

  April 16, 2009

• A look at the worst jobs in rock

  August 28, 2008

• Velvet Revolver Seek Libertad

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

  September 20, 2007

• Velvet Revolver

  Libertad
  RCA

  July 26, 2007

• Rock Star Supernova

  Tuesday, February 13, Budweiser Events Center, Loveland, 1-800-298-4200.

  February 8, 2007

• Buckcherry

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

  February 1, 2007

• Encore Performance

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

  November 23, 2006

• Listen Up

  Fast reviews of recent releases

  September 21, 2006

• Third Annual Adult Filmstar Ball

  La Bohème

  August 31, 2006

• Listen Up

  Fast reviews of recent releases

  July 20, 2006

• Making the Band

  A few matchmaking suggestions for the also-rans.

  June 29, 2006

• I See Hawks in L.A.

  California Country (Western Seeds)

  June 8, 2006

• My Brother’s Bar

  It's all relative

  April 20, 2006

• Listen Up

  Fast reviews of recent releases

  April 20, 2006

• Polywood Ending

  Cervantes' is the perfect place for Polytoxic to take its Last Waltz.

  November 17, 2005

• Buckethead

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

  November 10, 2005

• Velvet Revolver

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

  April 21, 2005

• Best Down-Tempo DJ

  DJ Idiom

  March 24, 2005

• Colonel Claypool's Bucket of Bernie Brains

  The Big Eyeball in the Sky (Prawn Song Records)

  August 19, 2004

• Club Scout

  Whiskey Bill's

  August 12, 2004

• Retroactive

  Steven Adler

  July 29, 2004

• Band of Brothers

  War is hell, but for the Bronx, so is rock and roll.

  July 8, 2004

• A Few of Holly's Favorite Things

  April 29, 2004

• Critic's Choice

  U.K. Subs

  October 9, 2003

• Critic's Choice

  Buckethead

  July 3, 2003

• Critic's Choice

  September 30, 1999

• Spirit of '76

  February 20, 1997

• SPECIAL EDWYN

  September 20, 1995

• THRILLS

  November 9, 1994

• HOUSES OF THE MOLDY

  THE BANDS THAT CAN FILL STADIUMS OFFER ONLY BLASTS FROM THE PAST.

  April 6, 1994

• 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 question and answers each as completely and honestly as he can, without regard to self-promotion or vanity. The result, accessible after the jump, is probably the longest and most extensive Q&A published

  May 20, 2009