Korn (Band)

The ten most disappointing metal albums

In the darkest recesses of the metal world, truly shitty albums lurk. Now, these albums aren't necessarily 100 percent shitty (there may still be some redeeming music to be found), but they are certainly incredibly disappointing, particularly given the otherwise worthiness of their creators. Plug yo ... More >>

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

For those of you lucky enough to be up in the mountains this afternoon for day two of the SnowBall Music Festival gets ready to get underway, you're probably going over the lineup and hatching a plan for what you're going to see today. If so, we've got you covered. We put together a short tipsheet o ... More >>

The ten best dubstep shows of 2012

Let's face it: 2012 can go down in history as the year that dubstep came out. Granted, the scene and genre have been around since the late '90s and early 2000s, but it was in 2012 that they finally took over the airwaves. With Denver being a mecca of dubstep in America and all, Backbeat reflected on ... More >>

Twins of Evil Tour: Rob Zombie and Marilyn Manson at 1STBANK Center, 10/02/12

ROB ZOMBIE & MARILYN MANSON @ 1STBANK CENTER |10/2/12 With the theme to Suspiria pumping out through the speakers as a preamble, Marilyn Manson took the stage with a huge, glowing, red, psychic cross hanging overhead -- a nice touch. The distorted, driving bass line of "Hey, Cruel World" let us kno ... More >>

Datsik

Thursday, August 30, Ogden Theatre, 888-929-7849.

The five best concerts in Colorado this week, Monday, August 27 through Friday, August 30

Good morning! Here we are again. Weekend's over. Bummed? So are we. Luckily, there's another full slate of music to look forward to this week. As always, the choices are plentiful. From folk and metal to indie rock and jam, whatever your flavor, there's plenty of options. Mumford & Sons kicks off a ... More >>

Four reasons Lollapalooza needs EDM

See Also: - Lollapalooza Sunday: The Hottest Day of All - Ten things your Lollapalooza outfit says about you By IAN TRAAS With every year that passes, it feels like electronic dance music gains a bigger foothold in the summer festival circuit, and the climb in popularity was especially apparent at ... More >>

#WMS 2012 recap: Vinyl Rooftop

Every year, for the Westword Music Showcase, we enlist our army of Backbeat wordsmiths to host various stages, and in addition to their emcee obligations, we ask them to pull double duty (or triple-duty in some cases) and also write up the acts that appear on their individual stages.

Ten weird Denver definitions in the Urban Dictionary

In the name of all that is holy, do not search "Denver" on Urbandictionary.com. Most of what you'll find -- and what we did find -- are what we'll simply call very open-minded sexual acts, but that is a different list entirely. Instead, Westword did the dirty (dirty) work for you, delving into the d ... More >>

Sucker Punch: The "Big Bitch" could bite fighting concert-goer

Video: Mayhem Festival clips capture events before assault

Tim Booth of James on why Coachella Kicks (the old) Lollapalooza's ass

Over the past 30 years, alternative Britpop rockers James have been one of the most underrated bands to come from Manchester. Having toured across the globe and played some of the biggest festivals in the world, frontman Tim Booth knows a thing or two about what makes a show great, which is why he l ... More >>

Five acts whose careers have resurrected

Whether you're honoring a ubiquitous egg-laying rabbit obsessed with scavenger hunts or the miraculous resurrection of a thirty-something Jewish carpenter, the Easter season is upon us once again. But regardless of your religious affiliation, in the world of music, returning from the dead seems to h ... More >>

Review: Korn at the Fillmore Auditorium, 2/28/12

KORN @ FILLMORE AUDITORIUM | 2/28/12 The most distracting element of any modern Korn concert is not the spectacle. It's not Fieldy's glow-in-the-dark bass or Jonathan Davis' epileptic writhing or the fact that, completely confident and decked in all black, the nu metal foursome looks like a pack of ... More >>

Korn

Monday, February 27, Fillmore Auditorium, 303-830-8497.

Excision

Thursday, February 16, and Friday, February 17, Ogden Theatre, 888-929-7849.

Korn at Fillmore Auditorium on February 27

​Korn is coming to the Fillmore Auditorium on Monday, February 27, with Kill the Noise. Pre-sale tickets go on sale this Wednesday on the band's website, and go on-sale otherwise to the general public this Friday at 10 a.m. Gotta hand it to the dudes. Who thought they'd still be a topic of con ... 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: On the concert front, shows from Red Hot Chili Peppers and Icelantic's Winter on the Rocks featuring Atmosphere, Common, Greives Budo and Get Cryphy were announced; the Swayback, Fierce Bad Rabbit, Monroe Monroe and Juno What ... More >>

Westword Music Showcase 2011

The Westword Music Showcase celebrates seventeen years, a lifetime for some of 2011's performers

Danzig at the Boulder Theater, 5/3/11

Dane Cronin DANZIG 05.03.11 | Boulder Theater The first time I went out to see Danzig over a decade ago as a teenager in the Pittsburgh, the concert was inexplicably canceled minutes before show time, and I returned to my '89 Pontiac Sunbird to find it towed. Last night in Boulder, I feared some s ... More >>

The Deftones at the Ogden Theatre, with Funeral Party and the Dillinger Escape Plan, 4/22/11

Aaron ThackerayChino Moreno of the Deftones up close and personal. See more photos from last night. THE DEFTONES With Funeral Party and Dillinger Escape Plan 04.22.11 | Ogden Theatre See the photo slideshow Funeral Party got the evening started, and after enduring its set -- one in which ear plug ... More >>

Best Coast and Wavves at Fox Theatre, 2/14/11

Tom MurphyTour Banner at back of stage. Should've been a t-shirt.​ BEST COAST With Waaves and No Joy 02.14.11 | Fox Theatre Opening the show with "Ghost Blonde," No Joy provided the perfect blend of noisy garage rock and dream pop. The title track to the group's debut full-length is one of i ... More >>

Dave Aude

Thursday, January 6, Beta, 303-383-1909.

Tonight: Dave Aude at Beta

​Even if Dave Aude's name isn't immediately recognizable, it is impossible to have missed his work over the past two decades. The prolific DJ and producer has worked with Katy Perry, Mary J. Blige and Lady Gaga on Billboard-charting remixes this year alone, and put his precise ear to task for ... More >>

Disco Biscuits, Girl Talk, Korn shows announced

Disco Biscuits​After selling out shows at Red Rocks and the Ogden Theatre this past summer, Philadelphia's Disco Biscuits is slated to return to the area for back-to-back nights at the Boulder Theater on Thursday, January 13 and Friday, January 14, followed by two more nights at the Ogden Thea ... More >>

Godsmack, Five Finger Death Punch and Drowning Pool at 1STBANK Centerm, 10/27/10

Eric GruneisenBehold the bulging veins of Godsmack's Sully Erna​ Last night at 1STBANK Center, we sent Eric Gruneisen, one our resident shutterbugs into the belly of the beast, a stacked triple-bill headlined by Godsmack, featuring Drowning Pool and Five Finger Death Punch, lead by Denver nat ... More >>

Derek Miller of Sleigh Bells talks about past, his creative partnership and the artwork for Treats.

Sleigh Bells is Derek Miller (from left) and Alexis Krauss​ So the story goes: Derek Miller met Alexis Krauss one day when he was serving her and her mother at a restaurant, and Krauss's mom pushed her into working on music with Miller. Until a few years ago, Miller had been living in souther ... More >>

Dave Aude at Beta

Brandon Putnam (No. 5): Identified as victim in Federal Heights homicide

Brandon Putnam, as seen on his MySpace page.​Last Thursday, a trio of suspects in Federal Heights robbed one person at his car and then shot and killed a second man inside an apartment. Authorities have now identified the victim as Brandon Putnam, 24, whose MySpace page describes his professi ... More >>

This Just In: Rush, Social Distortion, Sheryl Crow shows announced

​As this summer's Red Rocks schedule begins to fill in, a few more were added this week, including Rush, who will be performing its epic 1981 album Moving Pictures in its entirety for the first time ever on the Time Machine Tour, which kicks off in June. The band, who is currently working on i ... More >>

20XIII

Just Take Two and Call Us in the Morning
Self-released

Focus on the Family's Tim Tebow Super Bowl ad beloved by Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh, Bill O'Reilly and millions more

The Tebows have brought Focus on the Family a lot of love, cyber and otherwise.​The Focus on the Family Super Bowl ad co-starring Florida QB Tim Tebow and his mom spurred complaints from pro-choice groups that inadvertently helped spread FOTF's anti-abortion message. And even though the game i ... More >>

This Just In: Jason Aldean, Five for Fighting, Mayhem Festival announced

​Country sensation Jason Aldean, who has been selling out arenas on his Wide Open tour, visits the Odeum Colorado Thursday, March 18. Aldean's "Big Green Tractor" single spent four weeks at the number one spot on Billboard's Hot Country Songs Chart and has been certified gold. Reserved seats run $ ... More >>

Take a Little Trip

Head to the Denver Coliseum for the Lowrider Tour.

Letters to the Editor

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Letters to the Editor

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