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New Denver shows: Maroon 5 and Kelly Clarkson, Fall Out Boy and Warren Haynes

Brace yourself for the return of Fall Out Boy. The dudes are evidently back to save rock and roll. Maroon 5 and Kelly Clarkson, meanwhile, are teaming up for a co-headlining date at Fiddler's Green for the Honda Civic Tour, and Warren Hayes is set to collaborate with the Colorado Symphony Orchestra ... More >>

New Denver shows: Keith Urban, Lamb of God, John Mayer, Ke$ha and Pitbull and more

The biggest show announcement this week actually came last week -- talking about Prince at the Ogden, of course -- but there's a whole bunch of other new shows to let you know about this week, including Keith Urban at Red Rocks, Lamb of God at the Boulder Theater, John Mayer at Red Rocks and Ke$ha a ... More >>

New Denver shows: P!NK, Matchbox Twenty, Goo Goo Dolls, Barenaked Ladies, Guster

It's March 2013 -- at least according to the calendar. If you went by the concert calendar for the past few weeks, however, you'd swear it's the mid to late '90s. P!NK, Matchbox Twenty and Goo Goo Dolls, Barenaked Ladies, Ben Folds Five and Guster, Darius Rucker. If you're already nostalgic for the ... More >>

SnowBall Music Festival 2013 tipsheet: The eight must-see acts you should catch Sunday

Ah, yes, Sunday morning coming down. I believe that's how Kris Kristofferson once described the tail end of an epic bender, what, with no way to hold his head in a way that didn't ache and what have you. Hopefully you didn't go too hard the past two days; there's still one day of great music to look ... More >>

Alice Cooper will bring all of his personalities to town this week

See also: Slide show: Alice Cooper at the Paramount Theatre

Ten essential albums of the 1960s

If someone wanted to learn more about the sixties, but didn't know where to start, these are the albums we'd recommend. While they aren't necessarily the best selling, or the most critically acclaimed, they are certainly the ones that float to the surface all these years later, providing a rough blu ... More >>

Five best songs from the Summer of Love

Forty five years ago, the western world was forever changed by an overwhelming groundswell of youth rebellion known to history as the Summer of Love. There are countless factors that caused this tsunami of bohemia to sweep the globe -- everything from economics and the end of World War II to LSD and ... More >>

Brian Jonestown Massacre's Anton Newcombe on Beck, living in Germany and Bright Channel

The Brian Jonestown Massacre (due tonight at the Bluebird Theater) has been through ups and downs since 1990. But through it all, singer and primary songwriter Anton Newcombe, has steered the band through releasing more great albums per decade than most bands have across entire career. For the unini ... More >>

The Black Keys

Denver's ten best jukeboxes

Just as music collections say a lot about people, a jukebox can do the same for a bar; it often reflect the place's personality. A lot of times, variety is key to a well-stocked jukebox, and 3 Kings Tavern, this year's winner in the Best of Denver, had that with balls, to boot. Here's a look at the ... More >>

Motorhead

Tuesday, February 28, Fillmore Auditorium, 303-830-8497. 

Review: Scott Kelly at the Hi-Dive, 12/3/11

Tom MurphyScott Kelly​SCOTT KELLY at HI-DIVE | 12/3/11There were plenty of signs around the hi-dive last night indicating that this was an acoustic show. Meaning: Talking was ill-advised. Even so, some people near the stage decided to have a conversation at the beginning of Scott Kelly's set, ... More >>

Let zombicaturist Stan Yan bring out the bogeyman in you

Tim Tebow: Dead or Undead?​ At tomorrow's pre-Zombie Crawl Afraid of the Dark reception for the Bogeyman Art Show at MacSpa, you can commission comic artist Stan Yan to create an on-the-spot zombie makeover for you on paper, which you can then hang on your wall and remember that important day ... More >>

Keytar not ridiculous enough? Try the iTar!

Until now, if you wanted to look exceptionally silly playing an electronic instrument the keytar was your best bet. Not anymore. That's all changed with the introduction of the iTar, a "Guitar/DJ frame" for the iPad sporting doofus with everything but a sense of shame.

Erykah Badu, She & Him top sellers at local record stores

​Erykah Badu's New Amerykah Part Two: Return of the Ankh, released last week on Motown, took the top spots at Albums on the Hill and Twist & Shout, while claiming the number four slot at Independent Records. Meth, Ghost & Rae's Wu Massacre , meanwhile, released last week on Def Jam, and She & ... More >>

Heavy Rotation, our top spins for the week of January 4, 2010

​As music critics -- and people who generally think about, talk about, listen to and make music -- the most common question we get asked (and ask each other, for that matter) is, "What are you listening to right now?" The pervasiveness of this query is precisely what inspired Heavy Rotation. F ... More >>

Hey, DJ! Q&A with Kid Hum

​Every Friday we spotlight the hottest cats behind the decks in the MHC, grilling them to gain some insight on what it takes, exactly, to get the party rocking, to find out about their most treasured crate digging experiences and what they really think when we stumble up to them half cocked and as ... More >>

Today's featured events: Woodstock rocks the Rocks

​It's only right that the Denver Film Society's Film on the Rocks series should fête Woodstock's 40th anniversary, considering that the event, the music and the movie have become inseparably melded in our collective consciousness over time. Besides, FOTR is all about a similar gestalt -- so o ... More >>

There's a roomful of sophisticated blues at Blues on Blake

Family Ties

Los Lonely Boys rock out with Hill Country Revue.

Purple Haze

Q&A with Saúl Hernández of Jaguares

Yngwie Malmsteen

Celebrating Americons

Four musical moments in history that helped shape our lives and our country.

Rock This Way

Pink Hawks

Lion’s Lair

On the Town

Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey

Wednesday, July 18, Quixote's True Blue, 303-297-1772.

Four-String Phenom

On the Download

Linking you to the best in legitimate, artist-approved exclusives.

Habib Koité

Sunday, October 29, Boulder Theater, Boulder, 303-786-7030.

Elliot Holden Group

Monday, February 20, Sancho's Broken Arrow, 1-866-464-2626.

Overseas MP3s

For just pennies a tune, you can build a primo music library and support free enterprise in Russia.

Bluesman Walking

Consummate sideman Eddie Turner steps into the spotlight.

Best Blues CD

Rise
Eddie Turner

Next Best Thing

If you weren't at this landmark blues concert, Lightning in a Bottle will do.

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

Norah Jones

Feels Like Home (Blue Note)

Brown and Red

These days, his signature guit-steel playing leaves listeners slack-jawed. But it took Junior Brown a long time to get to center stage.

Look Ahead

D.A. Pennebaker doesn't make history, but he's captured so much of it.

Ulan Bator

Ego: Echo (Young God Records)

Nels Cline/Gregg Bendian

Interstellar Space Revisited: The Music of John Coltrane
(Atavistic)

Rock and Roll Is the Question

With Pearlcopper, guitarist Mark Spiewak is already a legend in his own mind.

Night & Day

February 18 - 24, 1999

Sweet Home

Night & Day

October 1 - 7, 1998

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