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Lester Bangs

  • Blogs

    April 30, 2012

    Lester Bangs died thirty years ago today

    See Also: • Studio 54 opened 35 years ago today • Randy Rhoads: Thirty years ago, a tragic accident took the life of a legendary guitarist • Sex Pistols sign with A&M outside Buckingham Palace 35 years ago • Today in History archives Lester Bangs mother was a Jehovah's Witness and his Fathe ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 14, 2012

    Neil Young's Harvest turns forty

    The year 1972 saw the death of the hippies -- or, at the very least, the decline of the movement from idealistic young go-getters playing with the fire of radical social change to an out-of-control inferno of hard drugs and failed dreams. Neil Young's Harvest wasn't the first to comment on these dar ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 9, 2011

    Top 5 Famous Writer/Musician Feuds

    ​Sometimes hurt feelings and death threats bring people closer together -- that definitely seems to be the case of the former web editor at our sister paper in Los Angeles, Erin Broadley, and shock-rocker Marilyn Manson, who once threatened to kill her. After the two met, they came to the real ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 13, 2010

    Mike Marchant's Outer Space Party Unit, Le Divorce and I Know You, Rider at Larimer Lounge, 12/11/10

    Tom MurphyMike Marchant's Outer Space Party Unit​ MIKE MARCHANT'S OUTER SPACE PARTY UNIT With Le Divorce • I Know You, Rider 12.11.10 | Larimer Lounge Le Divorce has always been good, but it seems the quartet has really honed its stage craft and sound in the past few months. Shrouded in a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 9, 2010

    Marijuana critic William Breathes looks back on a year of Mile Highs & Lows dispensary reviews

    William Breathes​It's been exactly one year since we kicked off our Mile Highs and Lows dispensary reviews. Since he's a sentimental guy (we think it might be the marijuana), William Breathes gave us the following look back at a year in pot reviewing: Believe it or not, Westword staffers aren ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 8, 2010

    With The FILTH and the FURY!! game you can pretend to be a music journalist

    ​Back in the 1980s, music journalism was a field people were falling over themselves to get into. This was hot on the heels of the Lester Bangs era, when DIY and punk movements started taking over and bands were coming out of every small town in America. It also marked a surge in music 'zine p ... More >>

  • Film

    June 3, 2010

    Crude on the outside, sweet in the middle, Get Him to the Greek

    ​Back in the 1980s, music journalism was a field people were falling over themselves to get into. This was hot on the heels of the Lester Bangs era, when DIY and punk movements started taking over and bands were coming out of every small town in America. It also marked a surge in music 'zine p ... More >>

  • Culture

    April 8, 2010

    Last call to see Amy Metier, Bruce Price and Eric Michael Corrigan shows

    ​Back in the 1980s, music journalism was a field people were falling over themselves to get into. This was hot on the heels of the Lester Bangs era, when DIY and punk movements started taking over and bands were coming out of every small town in America. It also marked a surge in music 'zine p ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 21, 2010

    What is the true definition of punk? Let's consult the experts, shall we?

    Patti Smith provided an interesting definition of punk rock in the current issue of New York magazine: "Punk rock is just another word for freedom." That got us thinking about what punk is and was, and how, as with all abstractions, you get to make up your own definition. As you can see in the ab ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 25, 2009

    Van Morrison revisits perhaps his finest hour, forty years later

    "I believe I've transcended," Van Morrison repeatedly incanted toward the end of the title track from his 1968 album, Astral Weeks, during the second night of a brief November stint at the Hollywood Bowl. Indeed, frequently over the course of those two nights, the famously mercurial, 63-year-old Iri ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 28, 2008

    Q&A with Ahmir ?uestlove Thompson of the Roots

    "I believe I've transcended," Van Morrison repeatedly incanted toward the end of the title track from his 1968 album, Astral Weeks, during the second night of a brief November stint at the Hollywood Bowl. Indeed, frequently over the course of those two nights, the famously mercurial, 63-year-old Iri ... More >>

  • Music

    March 13, 2008

    The Giraffes

    Monday, March 17, Larimer Lounge, 303-291-1007.

  • Music

    November 2, 2006

    Al Right Now

    Is "Weird Al" Yankovic an American pop genius?

  • Music

    August 24, 2006

    Coming Down the Mountain

    Thee Silver Mt. Zion blazes its own trail.

  • Music

    January 5, 2006

    For the record

    Since 2005 has hit the bricks, here's the final word on last year's finest discs.

  • Music

    August 4, 2005

    Crüe Cuts

    The Mötley men aren't quite bad to the bone.

  • Music

    April 7, 2005

    RPG

    Fulltime (Arclight)

  • News

    January 13, 2005

    Letters to the Editor

    From the week of January 13, 2005

  • News

    January 6, 2005

    Game On

    Video-game journalists look for a little respect.

  • Culture

    April 10, 2003

    Made With Love

    Rosanne Cash is the friend who will say, or sing, what you can't.

  • News

    December 14, 2000

    Letters to the Editor

    From the week of December 14, 2000

  • Film

    September 21, 2000

    Listen to the Movie

    Almost Famous rings in your ears -- and heart -- long after it's over.

  • Culture

    September 14, 2000

    A Fan's Notes

    After Jerry Maguire, Cameron Crowe comes of age...finally.

  • Music

    July 27, 2000

    Britneymania!

    What would the face of rock history have looked like if the British Invasion had been a Britney Invasion instead?

  • Music

    June 8, 2000

    Bang! Bang! You're Alive

    Stumbling down memory lane with the late Lester Bangs.

  • Music

    May 21, 1998

    Jim Dandy to the Rescue

    The Southern-rock wildman on sex, politics and firing one up with the president.

  • Music

    May 4, 1994

    BOVINE INTERVENTION

    The Southern-rock wildman on sex, politics and firing one up with the president.

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