Johnny Rotten

Poppin' Fresh

Poppin' Fresh

The Hives

Veni Vidi Vicious (Epitaph/Burning Heart)

New Bomb Turks

Nightmare Scenario
(Epitaph)

The Vandals

Look What I Almost Stepped In (Nitro)

Here's Mud in Your Ear

Seattle's Mudhoney sometimes wonders what all the fuzz was about.

Mini Reviews

Seattle's Mudhoney sometimes wonders what all the fuzz was about.

Rockmada

Radiohead was here.

Amphibious Jones

Critters of Habit

Westword Music Showcase 2007

Saturday, June 16

Riverfront

Drag the River pulls up gold with a new disc.

Neil Young

Living With War (Reprise)

Art Show

With Art Brut, what you see really is what you get.

Art Attack

Ichabod's gets a Jack Jensen makeover.

Knock 'Em Dead

Killing Joke's ghoulish rock has the last laugh.

Red Menace

Straight from the vein of avant-hardcore, the Blood Brothers gush up a big mess.

Music for Pleasure

Twenty-five years after releasing Britain's first punk single, the Damned return to the fray -- and to form.

Apocalypse Yesterday

Marilyn Manson resurrects the same ol' shtick.

Various Artists

A trio of records from Triage

Young Guns

Never mind the rumors; here's the Sex Pistols.

Still Pissed Off After All These Years

The The's Matt Johnson refuses to go quietly into the night.

Critic's Choice

This week's concert pick.

More Songs of the Century

Part two of a pre-millennial trek through a hundred years of pop music.

Thrills for the week

Part two of a pre-millennial trek through a hundred years of pop music.

OHIO OR BUST

THE ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME AND MUSEUM: GREAT IDEA OR SIGN THAT THE END IS NEAR?

IN YOUR PIGFACE

THE ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME AND MUSEUM: GREAT IDEA OR SIGN THAT THE END IS NEAR?

This Just In: Pavement, Public Image Limited, Sting shows announced

Marcus Roth​It was a hell of a week for show announcements, including rock legends, reunion tours and bit of everything in between. One of the most anticipated tours of the year is Pavement, who played its first show in a decade in New Zealand yesterday (photo of the setlist of that show here) ... More >>

The ten best John Lydon Interviews

​ With Public Image Ltd. coming to town this weekend, we've been thinking about John Lydon and all the crazy weird things he's done. If you haven't seen many interviews with him, you're going to quickly notice a theme in many of these, namely a slight air of pretension, curse bleeps and an ... More >>

He may no longer be Rotten, but John Lydon is still quite the PiL

​ With Public Image Ltd. coming to town this weekend, we've been thinking about John Lydon and all the crazy weird things he's done. If you haven't seen many interviews with him, you're going to quickly notice a theme in many of these, namely a slight air of pretension, curse bleeps and an ... More >>

PiL's John Lydon on appearing in butter commercials and being on Judge Judy

​ That a person could be in two hugely influential bands is rare enough, but John Lydon also became something of an icon for punk rock and experimental music. The Sex Pistols were instrumental in bringing punk rock to the attention of people worldwide, whether they liked the music or not. R ... More >>

Like a great character actor, Mark Mallman says he feels like someone else when he's on stage

​ That a person could be in two hugely influential bands is rare enough, but John Lydon also became something of an icon for punk rock and experimental music. The Sex Pistols were instrumental in bringing punk rock to the attention of people worldwide, whether they liked the music or not. R ... More >>

RIP Ari Up of the Slits, dead at 48

​Ari Up (aka Arianna Foster), a founding member of the Slits, passed away yesterday at the young age of 48. John Lydon, who is married to Nora Foster, Up's mother, delivered the disheartening news rather succinctly on his website: "John and Nora have asked us to let everyone know that Nora's d ... More >>

Tesco Vee of the Meatmen on punk in Michigan, Meatmen album covers and Touch and Go

The Meatmen​ In the late 1970s, Tesco Vee was an elementary school teacher in Michigan who lead something of a secret life, first as a fan of punk rock and then as the frontman of one of the most notorious and hilarious bands of that era -- the Meatmen (due this afternoon at Twist & Shout for ... More >>

Alex Cox, director of Repo Man, joins CU-Boulder's film studies faculty this fall

​Alex Cox, who wrote and directed cult favorites like Repo Man and Sid & Nancy, is joining CU-Boulder's film studies faculty this fall and will teach screenwriting and film production, as the Daily Camera reported. Cox, who grew up England, studied film at UCLA, then lived in Mexico and Spain ... More >>

Anand Wilder of Yeasayer on being from Baltimore but making a name in New York

​Yeasayer (due tonight with Hush, Hush and Smith Westerns at the Ogden Theatre) was started by three guys from Baltimore, who each moved to New York separately before starting the band. During its four-year existence, the trio has developed an experimental pop sound that is more akin to quirky ... More >>

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