Mudhoney

The 2013 Colorado music festival guide

I know it's hard to imagine now, especially with the temperature outside and the blanket of snow currently covering the Front Range, but summertime is just around the corner, which means the festival season is just getting ready to kick off. We know this because we're in the middle of putting togeth ... More >>

Warlock Pinchers: An extensive oral history straight from the jokers' mouth

​Few bands in the annals of underground music in Denver have garnered as much notoriety as Warlock Pinchers. Beginning in 1987, the Pinchers made a name for themselves early on as a charmingly obnoxious outfit of musical pranksters whose legacy of creative mischief is as memorable as its shows ... More >>

Q&A with Lucas Field of Low Vs. Diamond

Lucas Field, the frontman for Low Vs. Diamond (the subject of a profile in Westword's November 27 edition), is a Seattle native -- but he spent his college years at the University of Colorado-Boulder, where he played in a jam band whose music has little in common with the tunes he's making with hi ... More >>

Q&A with the Fluid’s Matt Bischoff

Q&A With the Fluid’s Rick Kulwicki

Westword Music Showcase 2006

Be there or be square!

Georgia Spazzelites

Jucifer makes rock for the Ritalin kid in all of us.

Slave New World

Tom Morello's advice about Audioslave? Don't believe the hype.

In Like a Lion

In Black Lamb's eyes, hard rock was never broken. Why fix it?

Stop Your Sobbing

In the wake of September 11, Ray Davies reconsiders his past and looks to the future.

Bumpa Crop

From Moroccan-flavored psycho-trance to furious superfunk, Critters Buggin cross space and time zones with their music.

On the Records

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

Just the Ax, Man

The Atomic Bitchwax and Nebula are among a new breed of bands putting the wank back into guitar rock.