Madonna (Entertainer)

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

Beyond Playlist: Madonna and More

Madonna at the Pepsi Center

Tonight: Madonna cast and crew after-party

Best Drag Troupe

The Alterboys

In Praise of Madonna

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

N.E.R.D.

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

Prong

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

This Just In…

The latest nightlife news.

Motet City Soundtrack

The Motet has no problem finding fans everywhere it plays.

Fully Charged

Despite some lineup changes, Ion is still energized.

Madonna

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.

Club Scout

Oscar G

Chalk It Up

Street painting Italian style will jazz up Larimer Square.

Like a Prayer

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

The More the Merrier

From Brazil, a lovely bossa-nova fantasy -- with roots in feminist reality.

Madonna

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

Critic's Choice

And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead

More Songs of the Century

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

All Mixed Up

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

Something Wild

Former Warlock Pincher Dan Wanush returns with the Wild Canadians.

Puttin' on the Hits

Former Warlock Pincher Dan Wanush returns with the Wild Canadians.

Fashion and Fascism

Former Warlock Pincher Dan Wanush returns with the Wild Canadians.

HUMP DAY

Former Warlock Pincher Dan Wanush returns with the Wild Canadians.

THERE GOES MR. JORDAN

Former Warlock Pincher Dan Wanush returns with the Wild Canadians.

Another weekend, another music format for The Truth

Great White.​The new talk outlet known as The Truth, at 101.5 FM, is playing music on the weekends. But stylistically, the station is a lot less consistent than the right-wing flavor of its syndicated blab. At first, the outlet simply spun the same mix of hard rock and hip-hop as during an int ... 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 >>

The Westword.com blog shortcut, August 27 edition

Steamy.​It's not faux. It's Pho. Today in Cafe Society: • Up Close: Pho 95. • What's Cooking? Getting corny in the kitchen with Pete Marczyk. • Spike It: Top six things that could be improved by caffeine. • Guess where I'm eating? • Candy Girls: Twilight Sweethearts, Forbidden Fruit ... More >>

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 >>

Robbie Rivera at Beta

​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 >>

Miike Snow

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

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 >>

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 >>

Five artists who should just go Vegas, baby!

Vegas, baby!​There comes a point in the career of any musical act where the only reasonable thing to do is to follow the trailblazing example of the King. By this we mean: Buy a lot of jumpsuits, move your bloated, fat ass to Las Vegas and basically become an ersatz version of your former glor ... 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 >>

Top Chef Just Desserts , round eight: CelebriTea sweepstakes

Zac's dessert was Inspired by the Pink Panther​I really like this batch of contestants on Top Chef Just Desserts -- well, perhaps not "I focus on me" Morgan, who does seem to be a bully in the kitchen -- and also the general dynamic among them. Several are clearly fond of each other, and almos ... 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 >>

Top five music videos based on movies

​Lil Wayne's delayed "6 Foot 7 Foot" video leaked and subsequently premiered yesterday. If you haven't seen it yet, let's just say director Hype Williams has outdone himself. He uses Inception as a jumping-off point, and in doing so, "6 Foot 7 Foot" joins a long list of music videos inspired b ... 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 >>

Hard Rock Cafe's 40th Anniversary Memorbilia Tour hits Denver next week

​Hard Rock Cafe's 40th Anniversary Memorabilia Tour bus will be outside the Denver location at 500 16th Street for one day only on Wednesday, June 29, from noon to 7 p.m. The exhibit includes the top forty most iconic pieces of music memorabilia from Hard Rock's collection, including Buddy Hol ... More >>

MTV's top five greatest on-air moments

A very pregnant Kim Gordon, flanked by band mate Julie Cafritz and KennedyOnce upon a time, before reality TV cheapened television programming as a whole, MTV (thirty years old today) was a bastion of music culture that actually showcased cutting edge artists for the sake of art. Because the network ... 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 >>

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

Madonna could push Lady Gaga to the backburner this year, with a new album called M.D.N.A.​Forget Tim Tebow. From now until at least the day after the Superbowl, everyone's going to be talking about another figure in pop culture who had the religion thing down pat long before Tebow did: Madonn ... More >>

Top 5 greatest Super Bowl halftime shows

​Judging by the voluminous groans echoing across the country, word is spreading that Madonna will be headlining the Super Bowl halftime show, alongside Nicki Minaj and M.I.A. Coincidentally, ahem, both women are featured on Madonna's new single, "Give Me All Your Luvin'," the video of which ... More >>

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

Madonna wants all your L-U-V in the video for new single "Give Me All Your Luvin'."​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 instant ... 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 >>