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Guns N' Roses

  • Blogs

    December 12, 2011

    Red Hot Chili Peppers due at Pepsi Center on Sunday, March 4. Tickets on sale December 17

    The Red Hot Chili Peppers return to Denver on Sunday, March 4, 2012. Tickets on sale Saturday, December 17.​Fresh off their induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (along with Guns N' Roses, the Beastie Boys and the Small Faces, among others), the Red Hot Chili Peppers will be making the ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 12, 2011

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    December 9, 2011

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    November 18, 2011

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    October 26, 2011

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    October 25, 2011

    Mile Highlights: Denver/Boulder area concert news, local radio playlists and top album sales

    ​Here's what's happening in music on the Front Range this week: Guns N' Roses is at 1STBANK Center in December, and in January, Wilco's at the Fillmore and the Jayhawks are due at the Ogden. Air Dubai, Gauntlet Hair, Ian Cooke and Jonny Barber & the Living Deads all got some spins on local rad ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 24, 2011

    Guns N' Roses at 1STBANK Center on 12/11/11

    ​Finally! A little over a month after we posted word letting you know that Guns N' Roses was headed to Colorado for its first tour in five years, we have a date. Mark your calendars: GNR (or at least whatever incarnation of the group Axl's fronting these days) is coming to 1STBANK Center on Su ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 27, 2011

    Guns N' Roses, Joan Jett, the Cure nominated for Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

    ​Guns N' Roses, who announced last week that it would be coming to Denver (but no venue or date has been confirmed yet), is among the fifteen acts nominated, along with the Cure, Joan Jett, Beastie Boys, Freddie King, Donovan, Erik B & Rakim and Red Hot Chili Peppers, for the Rock and Roll Hal ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 22, 2011

    Guns N' Roses announces Denver show

    ​Next month, Guns N' Roses will kick off its first U.S. tour in five years, but there are still more than a dozen cities on the band's tour itinerary, which the band released yesterday, that have yet to have dates or venues set, including Denver. While the tour, which starts October 28 and run ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 3, 2011

    Top five Headbanger's Ball videos

    ​Headbanger's Ball started on April 18, 1987, and ran for nearly eight years. With little regard for a narrow definition of what constituted metal, the show's programmers seemed to embrace it all. So you would see a Poison video, something from Motorhead and then something from the Cult. The e ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 7, 2011

    Ray Toro of My Chemical Romance on Tulagi's, Hot Topic and how much the band has changed

    Ten years ago, My Chemical Romance (due at the Fillmore this Saturday) was just another aspiring band in a van hoping to make it big. With a handful of three-chord punk rock songs hastily written and recorded in the attic of a house in New Jersey, the young outfit had no idea it would someday be e ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 6, 2011

    If Yerkish does decide to change its name, here's five ideas for a new moniker

    ​So word has it that the dudes from Yerkish (due May 3 at the Walnut Room with the Memorials) may be considering a name change. Faced with the prospect of losing two founding members and gaining two new members, the switch seems logical (although if that logic applied to everybody, Guns N' Ros ... More >>

  • Music

    April 15, 2010

    Rightfully Accused

    Ready or Not
    Self-released

  • Blogs

    February 16, 2010

    The ReMINDers rock the Apollo

    Aside from Red Rocks, there's only a handful of stages that merit inclusion on any performer's bucket list. We're talking about places that are so revered they're considered hallowed ground, the type of places in which artists dream of performing at for their entire lives. CBGB's before it became a ... More >>

  • Music

    January 28, 2010

    Anvil didn't give up its dream of bringing metal to the masses

    Aside from Red Rocks, there's only a handful of stages that merit inclusion on any performer's bucket list. We're talking about places that are so revered they're considered hallowed ground, the type of places in which artists dream of performing at for their entire lives. CBGB's before it became a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 20, 2009

    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 >>

  • News

    January 8, 2009

    They write the songs that make the whole world yak

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    January 6, 2009

    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 ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 25, 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' Ros ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 21, 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 t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    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 ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 19, 2008

    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 ... More >>

  • Music

    August 28, 2008

    A look at the worst jobs in rock

    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 ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 31, 2008

    The Disorienting Post Modernity of Rutlemania and Other Assorted Goodies

    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 ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 3, 2008

    Rock Band Comes Alive and Other Assorted Goodies

    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 ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 20, 2007

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

    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 ... More >>

  • Music

    September 20, 2007

    Velvet Revolver Seek Libertad

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

  • Music

    July 26, 2007

    Velvet Revolver

    Libertad
    RCA

  • Music

    February 8, 2007

    Rock Star Supernova

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

  • Music

    February 1, 2007

    Buckcherry

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

  • Music

    August 31, 2006

    Third Annual Adult Filmstar Ball

    La Bohème

  • Music

    July 20, 2006

    Listen Up

    Fast reviews of recent releases

  • Music

    June 29, 2006

    Making the Band

    A few matchmaking suggestions for the also-rans.

  • Music

    June 8, 2006

    I See Hawks in L.A.

    California Country (Western Seeds)

  • Dining

    April 20, 2006

    My Brother’s Bar

    It's all relative

  • Music

    November 17, 2005

    Polywood Ending

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

  • Music

    April 21, 2005

    Velvet Revolver

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

  • Calendar

    March 24, 2005

    Best Tribute Band

    Rocket Queen

  • Calendar

    March 24, 2005

    Best Down-Tempo DJ

    DJ Idiom

  • Music

    September 2, 2004

    Tommy Stinson

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

  • Music

    August 19, 2004

    Colonel Claypool's Bucket of Bernie Brains

    The Big Eyeball in the Sky (Prawn Song Records)

  • Music

    August 12, 2004

    Club Scout

    Whiskey Bill's

  • Music

    July 29, 2004

    Retroactive

    Steven Adler

  • Music

    July 8, 2004

    Band of Brothers

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

  • Music

    June 17, 2004

    Velvet Revolver

    Sunday, June 20, Fillmore Auditorium, 303-830-TIXS

  • News

    April 29, 2004

    A Few of Holly's Favorite Things

    Sunday, June 20, Fillmore Auditorium, 303-830-TIXS

  • Music

    October 9, 2003

    Critic's Choice

    U.K. Subs

  • Music

    July 3, 2003

    Critic's Choice

    Buckethead

  • Music

    September 30, 1999

    Critic's Choice

    Buckethead

  • Music

    February 20, 1997

    Spirit of '76

    Buckethead

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