Kool & The Gang

The 2013 Colorado music festival guide

I know it's hard to imagine now, especially with the temperature outside and the blanket of snow currently covering the Front Range, but summertime is just around the corner, which means the festival season is just getting ready to kick off. We know this because we're in the middle of putting togeth ... More >>

Van Halen at the Pepsi Center, 5/24/12

VAN HALEN @ PEPSI CENTER | 5/24/12 Evidently, 1982 was a very good year for David Lee Roth. "You're taking pictures here tonight, hot stuff?" the Van Halen frontman asked a woman in the front row in the middle of "Panama." "What? Oh, you want to make a sex tape. I'll tell you what, girlfriend, you ... More >>

Van Halen

Thursday, May 24, Pepsi Center, 303-830-8497.

Kool and the Gang's Robert "Kool" Bell on the unlikely pairing of touring with Van Halen

This Thursday, May 24, Kool & the Gang is due at the Pepsi Center with Van Halen. While this might seem like an unlikely pairing, the legendary funk/R&B act opening for the equally iconic rock band, Robert "Kool" Bell, Kool & the Gang's founding member, tells us it's working out great. We recently s ... More >>

Van Halen in Denver on 5/24 at Pepsi Center

​Oh, hell yeah! Mark your calendars. It's really happening. Van Halen is coming to Denver. It's confirmed, and we finally have a date. Thursday, May 24, at the Pepsi Center, Van Halen will be here with Kool and the Gang. So stoked! Almost as stoked as we are to hear the new record, A Different ... More >>

True to form, even R.E.M.'s breakup was boring

All bets are off: Westword writers head up the hill to Black Hawk and Central City

EDX, Thursday, September 2, at Beta

Mile Highlights: Five must-see acts at Mile High Music Festival

The Good Grime Soundsystem

Grim Times
Self-released

Har Mar Superstar

Tuesday, October 13, hi-dive, 720-570-4500.

The Rex Lounge becomes part of Platte Valley royalty

Westword Music Showcase reviewed: Fidel's Cantina

Brian Landis FolkinsYerkish led off at Fidel's. See more photos from Fidel's at westword.com/slideshow. Yerkish, 12 p.m. The crowd inside the cramped cantina is building slowly as Yerkish takes the stage, and the band wastes no time in laying out its frenetic, frantic rhythms. It's a dynamic compl ... More >>

The music at Sarah Palin's Jefferson County Fairgrounds speech

The 2007 Hall of Shame

It's one thing to embarrass yourself. It's quite another to take an entire city with you.

The Falcon

Steve Schalk's newest project is out of this world.

The Sounds of Summer

Tunes that take us back to those lazy, hazy days.

This Just In...

Nightlife you can use.

Aural Pleasure

The talented tongue of Atmosphere goes to work.

Unhappy Together

Why doesn't KOOL want Barry Fey's money?

United States of Electronica

Thursday, May 27, Larimer Lounge, 303-291-1007

Backwash

The last gulp.

The Same Old Shlock

Proof that today's popular music is just as good -- and bad -- as it's always been.

Hate State Sets New Record: 365 Days of Rage!

After Further Review

Putting the season's major releases to the test.

Rap Gets Puffy

Sean "Puff Daddy" Combs fathers a return to hip-hop pop.

Mama Knows Best

Rhymes of Passion

The Fugees are determined to make rap, not war.

The Sun's Ray

PLAYING IT COOLIO

HOW DO YOU GO FROM BEING A JUNKIE TO A RAP STAR? COOLIO KNOWS.