Subject: Judas Priest

• Trivial Pursuits

  August 22, 2007

• Over the Weekend ... Bang Camaro @ Bluebird Theater

  February 25, 2008

• Panic at the Disco's Sgt. Pepper Moment and Other Assorted Goodies

  May 12, 2008

• Westword.com blog shortcut, September 18 edition

  September 18, 2008

• Live Review: Smaug, the Final Formula, Devil Got Five, Black Maria at PT's Club Inferno

  September 29, 2008

• Cast of 1000

  October 23, 1997

• Night & Day

  September 24 - 30, 1998

  September 24, 1998

• Rats Race

  The B-Movie Rats want to star as the next monsters of rock.

  November 12, 1998

• Power Age

  AC/DC's Brian Johnson still gets a jolt out of rock and roll.

  April 5, 2001

• Hit Pick

  Swanks

  September 20, 2001

• Homies

  Home Movie looks inside some eccentric domiciles.

  September 26, 2002

• The Beatdown

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

  October 30, 2003

• Mile High Makeout: These ARE the good old days

  Photo: Cory Casciato Remember the good old days? If you’re anything like me, you’ve probably caught yourself on more than one occasion muttering that rhetorical question while you waxed nostalgic about something or other that you could just swear was far superior ten or twenty years ago or more. Remember kerosene lamps? Those were so much better than compact fluorescent bulbs. And do you recall how great eight-track tapes were? Man, you just can’t get that kind of warmth and resonance

  November 13, 2008

• Vintage Q&A with AC/DC's Brian Johnson

  Sunday's AC/DC concert -- reviewed in the blog "Live Review: AC/DC and The Answer at the Pepsi Center" -- conjures up memories of the Q&A with the band's Brian Johnson that Westword published under the headline "Power Age" back in April 2001. It's among my favorite interviews ever -- and it prompted one of the most amusing complaint calls I can recall. Some guy phoned then-Backbeat editor Laura Bond to say Johnson was so funny and on-point that I had to have made up the whole thing. Nope: Eve

  November 26, 2008

• Top Ten Metal Albums of 2008

  In a year worthy of your rage, metal delivered in spades. What with the economy circling the drain and Sarah Palin coming down from the tundra and then refusing to go back, 2008's been the kind of year that really makes you want to smash your head into walls or punch random strangers in the face. Good thing there were so many awesome records available to serve as a soundtrack for exactly that kind of behavior. The following ten discs are just the tip of a very big, very heavy iceberg. Metal seem

  December 26, 2008

• Queens of the Stone Age

  July 27, 2000

• Rammstein

  August 16, 2001

• Backwash

  March 14, 2002

• Over the weekend: Tauntaun and Kingdom of Magic at the Bluebird

  Photo by Soren McCartyTauntaun, Kingdom of Magic and Wetlands Friday, March 6, 2009 Bluebird Theater Better than: banging your head against your steering wheel Friday night's Bluebird crowd came prepared to rock, and they certainly weren't disappointed. As metal reasserts itself in the mainstream Denver music scene, fans of nosehair-singeing rock are lucky to have the chance to catch lineups like this one.

  March 9, 2009

• The Sword Conquers

  This doom metal comes endorsed by Metallica.

  April 24, 2008

• Coin Style Margarita at El Camino

  February 5, 2009

• Warped Tour, Kings of Leon, Judas Priest shows announced

  3OH!3 headlines this summer's Vans Warped TourSunday, August 9 is going to be a busy day for music in the Mile High, when Kings of Leon stops by Red Rocks, and the skater-centric Vans Warped Tour, pulls into Invesco with more than fifty bands in tow, including 3OH!3, Bad Religion, NOFX, Less Than Jake and Flogging Molly, among others. A few more Red Rocks shows were announced this week, including a Judas Priest/Whitesnake date on Tuesday, August 11, and fJackson Browne on Wednesday, August 26. F

  April 15, 2009

• Baristas Abuzz With Caffeinated Competition

  Coffee lovers are buzzing about Denver's first-ever battle of the baristas, and things could get frothy.

  February 28, 2008

• Trivial Pursuit

  January 3, 2008

• Listen Up

  Fast reviews of recent releases

  September 6, 2007

• New Rome Is Burning

  Jason Walker and company strive to break new ground.

  July 5, 2007

• Lullabies For the Deranged

  Wallow in the mire of the year's best scuzz rock.

  January 4, 2007

• Rockumentary

  Music biopics Hollywood won't make.

  December 14, 2006

• Rock, Rock 'Til You Drop

  Get ready for Rockbar.

  August 24, 2006

• Trail of Tears

  Prey should be called Dances With Tedium.

  August 3, 2006

• No Kidding Around

  Kid rocks, the Colorado Convention Center doesn't.

  April 27, 2006

• Killswitch Engage

  Friday, March 18, Fillmore Auditorium, 303-830-8497.

  March 17, 2005

• Drowning Pool

  Thursday, December 9, Ogden Theatre, 303-830-2525.

  December 9, 2004

• Himsa

  Monday, November 22, Ogden Theatre, 303-830-2525.

  November 18, 2004

• Abstract Painter

  With a heartbreaking sketchbook of nostalgic songs, Mark Kozelek is almost famous.

  April 22, 2004

• Demolition Band

  Judas Priest carries on with life after Halford.

  September 13, 2001

• Metal Meltdown

  Marky Mark becomes a Rock Star, but he doesn't get to enjoy it.

  September 6, 2001

• Time of the Season

  Springing into action with a new crop of local releases.

  May 10, 2001

• Rob Halford

  Resurrection (Metal-Is)

  February 8, 2001

• Postivly Negativ

  Sampling ad infinitum with America's sonic outlaws.

  May 18, 2000

• The Oblivion Express

  Comeback attempts by acts that should just go away.

  May 27, 1999

• Feedback

  January 21, 1999

• Playlist

  February 12, 1998

• Feedback

  January 30, 1997

• PANZER DIVISION

  April 5, 1995

• Westword Music Showcase: How I saw thirty bands in five hours and lived to tell about it

  Photo by Bert Ross For this year's Saturday's Westword Music Showcase, I told myself I was going to take it easy. No running around like an idiot, trying to see as many acts as possible. Instead, I would move at a leisurely pace, sampling and savoring instead of trying to gorge myself on as much music as I could stuff into my ears. But try as I might, I couldn't make myself do it. With so many artists representing so many different styles performing in such close proximity to each other, I simp

  June 15, 2009

• Live Nation offers two-for-one ticket special tomorrow

  On Wednesday, July 22, Live Nation is offering buy one, get one free lawn tickets for Fiddler's Green Amphitheatre shows including Creed, Crue Fest II, Def Leppard with Cheap Trick and Poison, Toby Keith with Trace Adkins, Brad Paisley with Dierks Bentley and Jimmy Wayne, and Rod Stewart. The two-for-one offer also applies to Live Nation shows at Red Rocks including Flogging Molly with Hepcat and Fitz & the Tantrums, Heaven & Hell with Coheed & Cambria, and Judas Priest with Whitesna

  July 21, 2009

• Judas Priest

  August 6, 2009

• Heavy Rotation, our top spins for the week of October 26, 2009

  ​As music critics, the most common question we get asked (and ask each other, for that matter) is, "What are you listening to?" The pervasiveness of this query is precisely what inspired Heavy Rotation, our latest feature. For the benefit of those who happen to be curious, we've compiled a list of all the things we're listening to this week. Feel free to chime in with picks of your own after the jump.

  October 28, 2009

• Recast: If Hans Zimmer had a clue, this is what The Rock's soundtrack would've sounded like

  ​Let's just go ahead and get this out of the way from the get-go: we love The Rock. We can't explain it but there it is. That said, we also hate Hans Zimmer with a passion usually reserved for evil dictators and ex-patriots. So what better example of Recast then to add a soundtrack to this beloved movie? This is Recast, in which we appoint ourselves soundtrack supervisors of existing films.

  November 18, 2009