Madonna (Entertainer)

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Paul Oakenfold on dubstep, coming to Denver and how Beta is one of the best clubs in America

One of the first true superstar DJs, Paul Oakenfold has done more to popularize electronic dance music in the United States and in his native Britain than any constituent of the current EDM explosion. Long before Skrillex and Deadmau5 brought styles like dubstep and electro into the mainstream consc ... More >>

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Madonna at the Pepsi Center, 10/18/2012

MADONNA @ PEPSI CENTER | 10/18/12 Don't fuck with Madonna. She'll shoot you dead. Or, at the very least, if you're at the Pepsi Center on a Thursday night in October, she'll make you wait an extra hour until she goes onstage. But this is Madonna we're talking about here. She can do whatever the hel ... More >>

The twenty best Madonnabes at last night's Madonna concert at the Pepsi Center

Let's get this straight: There is only one Madonna. Unless, of course, you're counting the number of times Madge has reinvented her sound and her look throughout history, in which case there are dozens. And last night at the Pepsi Center, they all came out to see the original. There were "Material G ... More >>

The ten best concerts this week: October 15-19

Hope you got good and rested this past weekend, because you're going to need to tap into your energy reserves for the insane amount shows going down this week. We have all of them listed in our concert calendar, of course, if you'd like to get the full view. Otherwise, below, we've narrowed it down ... More >>

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Alon Paul on 365 days of Madonna and creating art out of his obsession

Artist Alon Paul says he hopes that if Madonna ever sees his new show Muse:365, she'll be equal parts flattered and terrified. This time in 2011, Paul quit drinking and created a piece of art of or inspired by the Material Girl every day for the entire year, and he'll display them all at a grand ope ... More >>

Chartbreaker: Lionel Richie bests Madonna and Nicki Minaj, Maroon 5's "Payphone" cashes in

See Also: • Madonna's MDNA falls harder than Lady Gaga's Born This Way did • Madonna's MDNA outsells Lionel Richie's Tuskegee (what year is this again?) Madonna and Lionel Richie -- who would have thought that after four weeks on the Billboard 200 albums chart, only Richie would remain in the t ... More >>

Chartbreaker: Madonna's MDNA falls harder than Lady Gaga's Born This Way did, while Nicki Minaj takes the top in the U.S. and U.K.

In the ultimate twist of "Give Me Some Luvin'" irony, Nicki Minaj has dethroned Madonna from the top of the Billboard 200 chart this week, as Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded easily takes the top spot with 253,000 copies sold, while Madge's MDNA dropped to number eight, selling only 48,000 in its second ... More >>

Have you seen Molly? She's been everywhere lately.

Madge reportedly hiring Madonna-bes to impersonate her on her upcoming MDNA tour

Oh, now, this is rich: In an effort to thwart the efforts of any would-be paparazzi on her upcoming tour, which hits the Pepsi Center on Thursday, October 18, Madonna has reportedly contracted a cluster of Madonna-bes to impersonator her in various cities. If indeed true (for what it's worth, this t ... More >>

Video: Wednesday was Lady Gaga's birthday, but Madonna wishes Nicki Minaj a happy birthday instead... and then the claws came out

Lady Gaga celebrated her 26th birthday earlier this week, and the Interwebz were aflutter with little monsters' birthday wishes to her -- Twitter, YouTube, even Billboard's website were sending their well wishes. One person who didn't tell her happy birthday, however, was Madonna. On the day of all ... More >>

Madonna's "Girl Gone Wild" video proves only one thing -- that the girl's gone mild

At least the cheerleader theme in "Give Me All Your Luvin'" was new visual territory for Madonna, if not a bit influenced by her contemporaries. The same can't be said for the video to "Girl Gone Wild," Madonna's second single from M.D.N.A., her twelfth album. Watching the clip is like watching Madg ... More >>

Mile Highlights: Denver/Boulder area concert news, local radio playlists and top album sales

​ Here's what's hot this week in music on the Front Range: On the concert front, new shows featuring Madonna, Jeff Mangum, the String Cheese Incident, Jane's Addiction, B.B. King and more were announced; Lola Black, Fresh Breath Committee and the Autumn Film got spins on local radio; and recent a ... More >>

Madonna at Pepsi Center October 18

On the heels of her recent half-time spectacle at the Super Bowl comes word that nearly four years after her pair of back-to-back shows at the Pepsi Center in 2008, Madonna is returning to the Mile High City for another show on Thursday, October 18 at the Pepsi Center. Tickets ($49-$359, plus fees) ... More >>

Madonna's "Girl Gone Wild" isn't all that wild

What do you do if the lead single from your new album campaign drops like dead weight down the charts? If you're Madonna, you release another single and hope that the club kids don't notice that you're treading on old territory. Madge's lead single from her hotly-anticipated twelfth album, M.D.N.A. ... More >>

Madonna upstaged by M.I.A. and Cee Lo Green during the Super Bowl halftime show

Cee Lo Green outsings Madonna during the "Like A Prayer" portion of the Super Bowl XLVI halftime show.​Forget the New York Giants and Eli Manning. The true winner of yesterday's Super Bowl XLVI in Indianapolis was pop music. Heralded in by Queen Madonna herself, the halftime show was truly an ... More >>

Top 5 greatest Super Bowl halftime shows

See also: Super Bowl commercials: Elton John, Flava Flav, Echo and the Bunnymen and more and Video: M.I.A. flips off Super Bowl audience during halftime show Judging by the voluminous groans echoing across the country, word is spreading that Madonna will be headlining the Super Bowl halftime show, ... More >>

Video: Madonna's"Give Me All Your Luvin'" with Nicki Minaj and M.I.A as cheerleaders

Madonna's "Give Me All Your Luvin'" video, which premiered only hours ago on her YouTube channel, is proof perfect that she is still the Queen of Pop. The song itself isn't particularly innovative. It's instantaneous dance-pop infused with elements of a previous era, the 1980s, while still attemptin ... More >>

Look out, Gaga: Madonna's back to get all the "Luvin'" with a potent new drug called M.D.N.A.

Forget Tim Tebow. From now until at least the day after the Super Bowl, everyone's going to be talking about another figure in pop culture who had the religion thing down long before Tebow did: Madonna. Although Lady Gaga may never admit as much, Madge recently acknowledged the similarities between ... More >>

Madonna's new single leaks: Does it deserve any love? Plus a breakdown of this week's charts

Madonna wants all your love, but does she deserve any of it?​It was a big week for female pop music. Katy Perry, Lady Gaga and Madonna were all in the spotlight this week. Perry's new video for "The One That Got Away" garnerd hit six million YouTube views over the weekend. The song is her sixt ... More >>

Gaga's "Judas" isn't controversial! It's been done. Better.

Bruno MedinaDelicous religious cleavage. ​We live for releases of controversial and eye-opening videos that cause a stir. And we're personally offended when one comes out that claims to be groundbreaking but just rips someone else off. We know it's hard for these new popstresses to come up wit ... More >>

Tonight: The Bookery Nook unveils never-before-seen nude photos of Madonna

​If you're a fan at all of Madonna, you know about her 1985 Playboy spread and the classic down and out story that led to it: In 1979, a then-broke and unknown Madonna posed nude for a photography class for a fee of $30. Years later, when her first single "Everybody" topped the charts in 1982, ... More >>

Denver does Denver, but who's doing the rest? A list of our five dream covers.

The act we've chosen for Magnetic Fields to cover is so obvious, it just might work.​With Denver Does Denver now safely in the rearview, we've been pondering what an expansion of the concept beyond the Colorado borders might look like. More to the point, we've been thinking about what some of ... More >>

Lady Gaga, queen of the cadavers? We hope not.

​ There's one for every generation: the shock rocker. For those of us who grew up in the '90s, it was Marilyn Manson. For our parents, it was Alice Cooper. For the current crop of young, impressionable minds, it's, uh, Lady Gaga, apparently. As reported (and poorly sourced) by notorious U.K. ... More >>

Top 10 weirdest musical duets

A couple of nights ago, we had the absolute pleasure of seeing William Shatner and Lin Yu Chun do a rendition of "Total Eclipse of the Heart" on Lopez Tonight that made our hearts cream with loving ecstasy. We have no clue what to actually think of Lin Yu Chin (other than that the internet seems t ... More >>

Miike Snow

Friday, April 9, Bluebird Theater, 303-830-8497.

Frank E: The takeover continues with Madonna, Lil Wayne and Toni Braxton

​We never cease to be impressed with the strides that Colorado producer Frank E continues to make. It's like nonstop! And although he's been producing hits for a nice range of hip-hop artists like Chamillionaire, Plies, T-Pain and Flo-Rida, he's doing the pop thing too. Two singles from pop supers ... More >>

Frank E pens songs for Madonna

​How does one go from affable, unassuming club DJ to one of the hottest, most in-demand producers in the game in just under a year and half? Beats us. We're pretty sure, however, that Frank E can tell you a thing or about that sort of thing. After crafting hits for Flo-Rida, T.I. and Plies, homebo ... More >>

Madonna at the Pepsi Center

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Q&A With Pharrell Williams of N.E.R.D.

Prong

Wednesday, November 7, Larimer Lounge, 303-291-1007.

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Fully Charged

Despite some lineup changes, Ion is still energized.

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Confessions on a Dance Floor (Warner Bros.)

Let's Go Crazy...Please!

Only one man can save us from our own devastating lack of sex appeal.

Like a Prayer

Ever since Madonna called, remix artist and DJ Victor Calderone has been basking in a ray of light.

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Music (Maverick/Warner Bros.)

Stage Fright

...And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead makes impeccable recordings in the studio -- and a mess of the bars and clubs where it performs.

Pie in the Sky

Madonna and Rupert Everett play house in The Next Best Thing.

Sounds Like Fun!

'80s Retro Dance Party at the Boulder Theater

All Mixed Up

Vienna's Kruder & Dorfmeister have become many superstars' remixers of choice.

In Praise of Madonna

Love her or hate her--but give her some respect.

Fashion and Fascism

HUMP DAY

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