Lou Reed

Q&A With Laurie Anderson

Wed Alert: Lou Reed Marries Laurie Anderson. Nick Forster from etown Officiates

Rubbed the Right Way

Masseuse Carla Madison keeps in touch with the Denver music scene.

The Soft Boys

Underwater Moonlight (Matador)

The Go-Betweens

bright yellow bright orange (Jetset)

Uphollow

Ten Fingers

Last Night: Rachael Pollard at GlobGlobGlob

photo by Marcus HuserRachael Pollard, Doo Crowder, Spoke Shaver, Rotaree, TemplesThursday, March 19, 2009GlobGlobGlobBetter than: Not falling asleep at work, which I'm now certain to do tomorrow.In military operations, planes often fly at low altitudes to avoid radar detection. If that's true in cli ... More >>

Eef Barzelay Quiets Things Down

With Clem Snide behind him, this singer-songwriter has found happiness in a more intimate environment.

Safe Boating Is No Accident at the Meadowlark

With Clem Snide behind him, this singer-songwriter has found happiness in a more intimate environment.

Amanda Palmer

Who Killed Amanda Palmer?
Roadrunner Records

Mini Reviews

Who Killed Amanda Palmer?
Roadrunner Records

Summer Movie Preview

The season of big budget bangs uses its brain.

Primal Scream and Kasabian

Riot City Blues (Columbia) and Empire (RCA)

The Warlocks

Thursday, March 16, Fillmore Auditorium, 303-830-8497.

Hip-Hop Sans Hova

Still no Jigga, but Kanye, some lovable limeys and a great Beyoncé substitute held it down.

John Cale

Sunday, October 30, Bluebird Theater, 303-322-2308.

Alasdair Roberts

Sunday, September 11, hi-dive, 720-570-4500.

Ambulance LTD

Wednesday, April 6, Larimer Lounge, 303-291-1007.

Spirited

Ghost writer Garland Jeffreys returns to his old haunt: the stage.

The Velvet Underground

Live at Max's Kansas City (Reissue) (Rhino)

Critic's Choice

Hamell on Trial

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

Hamell on Trial

Frank Black and the Catholics

Dog in the Sand (What Are Records?)

On the Records

Backbeat contributors reflect on the releases that helped them survive the year 2000.

Bang! Bang! You're Alive

Stumbling down memory lane with the late Lester Bangs.

Lou Reed

Ecstasy
(Warner/Reprise)

A Musical Feast

Denver produces a new crop of music.

Night Sweats

Scorsese's New York is alive and kicking in Bringing Out the Dead, but the vital signs are weakening.

More Songs of the Century

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

Happy Lou

In concert, Lou Reed takes a walk on the mild side.

Thrills for the week

In concert, Lou Reed takes a walk on the mild side.

THRILLS

In concert, Lou Reed takes a walk on the mild side.

HAM AND YEGGS

In concert, Lou Reed takes a walk on the mild side.

UP FROM THE UNDERGROUND

WHY THE VELVET UNDERGROUND MATTERS, WHETHER YOU'RE HIP TO IT OR NOT.

EXPECT THE UNEXPECTED

FORMER VELVET UNDERGROUNDER JOHN CALE IS STILL DOING WHATEVER HE DAMN WELL PLEASES.

THRILLS

FORMER VELVET UNDERGROUNDER JOHN CALE IS STILL DOING WHATEVER HE DAMN WELL PLEASES.

Monolith Q&A: Cymbals Eat Guitars

​According to Cymbals Eat Guitars 20-year-old frontman Joseph D'Agostino, Lou Reed didn't want a lot of cymbals on the first three Velvet Underground albums because "cymbals eat guitars," which explains the copious amounts of floor toms on those early discs. While that might have inspired the band ... More >>

New York-bound Emily Frembgen is leaving behind some poetically walloping folk songs to remember her by

​According to Cymbals Eat Guitars 20-year-old frontman Joseph D'Agostino, Lou Reed didn't want a lot of cymbals on the first three Velvet Underground albums because "cymbals eat guitars," which explains the copious amounts of floor toms on those early discs. While that might have inspired the band ... More >>

Emily Frembgen on Lou Reed, Hall & Oates and playing with Ian Cooke

​ This week's Rough Mixes entry focusing on Emily Frembgen contained excerpts of our recent chat with the singer-songwriter, who's packing up her guitar at the end of June and heading by to New York. Luckily she's not leaving us empty-handed: Her new CD, Always With You, is a gorgeous disc fu ... More >>

Chris Jeffries

Self Titled EP
Self-released

Susan Boyle is an unkillable sales machine

Susan Boyle's number two is a very special gift.​It's officially the Holiday season, which is why Poptimystic is finally ready to address the Christmas albums on the charts. Even though they've been there for at least three weeks. Two of Billboard's top ten albums are seasonal, and Billboard, ... More >>

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 >>

Who Likes Short Shorts?

​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 >>

What to see at Aspen ShortsFest? Here's something for each day

Lou Reed not being a dick? Crazy.​There are a lot of short films playing at the Aspen ShortsFest tonight and over the course of the next five days -- like, a shitload of them. And since many of them are foreign and all of them, pretty much by definition because they are short films, are somewh ... More >>

What week is it? A breakdown of everything you could be celebrating, April 11 - 17

This song does not count.​Here's what you do: Figure out some way to get into a submarine, then crank up some badass barbershop quartet jams on the eight-track, because today is National Submarine Day, Eight-Track Tape Day and Barbershop Quartet Day all rolled into one. Just like that. But in ... More >>

Five careers Jack White could help revive next

​Jack White has been a busy bee lately, producing records for Loretta Lynn, Wanda Jackson and now, Jerry Lee Lewis. We're starting to get the feeling he might view himself as a sort of Rick Rubin-type character, but instead of making older musicians darker and more introspective, he's just mak ... More >>

JB Townsend of Crystal Stilts on the act's evolution and the influence of Velvet Underground

​A few years ago, Crystal Stilts (due tonight at Larimer Lounge), along with friends Blank Dogs, gained notoriety in the blogosphere for its reverb-drenched post-punk, which was notably different from everything that had been coming out of New York in the past decade.

Time travel, sexy video games and more new release picks for the this week, July 26, 2011

​It's a bit of a slow week again, but the media coming out today is so top-notch that it's hard to complain. Provided you're interested in things like playing god, a relationship puzzle game about love or watching a movie that's sort of about time travel, you'll have a lot to take in this wee ... More >>

Weekend's best live bets: Big Gigantic, Jedi Mind Tricks and more

Denver's best live music bets, weekend of January 20, 2012

Garland Jeffreys on Lou Reed and "living in between"

Danny ClinchGarland Jeffreys Garland Jeffreys (due Saturday, January 21, at the Lion's Lair) should be a household name considering some of the shoulders with which he's rubbed during the course of his long career: He met Lou Reed and Maureen Tucker before the Velvet Underground were properly a ban ... More >>