Guns N' Roses

Zac Brown Band's Jimmy de Martini on going from an airport shuttle to touring in eight buses

Jimmy De Martini's musical background is rooted more in Jimmy Page than Jimmy Dean, more in the work of rock acts like Guns N' Roses than contemporary country artists like Alan Jackson. But for nearly a decade, De Martini has played fiddle for the Zac Brown Band, one of the most commercially success ... More >>

Kinky Mink Loves the ’80s

Guns N' Roses Appetite for Destruction turns 25

See Also: - Remembering Randy Rhodes thirty years after his tragic death -The Beatles' Sgt Pepper turns 45 -The Rolling Stones' Exile on Main Street turns 40 -Jimi Hendrix's Are You Experienced turns 45 In the early 1980s, a red-haired, Midwestern boy named William Bailey stepped off a bus in New Y ... More >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

Rightfully Accused

Ready or Not
Self-released

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 >>

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

They write the songs that make the whole world yak

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

A look at the worst jobs in rock

The Disorienting Post Modernity of Rutlemania and Other Assorted Goodies

Rock Band Comes Alive and Other Assorted Goodies

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.

Velvet Revolver

Libertad
RCA

Rock Star Supernova

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

Third Annual Adult Filmstar Ball

La Bohème

Listen Up

Fast reviews of recent releases

Making the Band

A few matchmaking suggestions for the also-rans.

I See Hawks in L.A.

California Country (Western Seeds)

My Brother’s Bar

It's all relative

Polywood Ending

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

Velvet Revolver

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

Best Tribute Band

Rocket Queen

Best Down-Tempo DJ

DJ Idiom

Tommy Stinson

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

Colonel Claypool's Bucket of Bernie Brains

The Big Eyeball in the Sky (Prawn Song Records)

Club Scout

Whiskey Bill's

Retroactive

Steven Adler

Band of Brothers

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

Velvet Revolver

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

A Few of Holly's Favorite Things

Critic's Choice

U.K. Subs

Critic's Choice

Buckethead

Critic's Choice