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Fred Durst on joining Cash Money and being the same guy with his hat backwards from 1999

More than fifteen years after the release of Three Dolla Bill, Y'all, Limp Bizkit is back with a brand new album, Stampede of the Disco Elephants, on the Cash Money imprint. In advance of the band's return to Denver in support of that album this weekend, we caught up with Fred Durst yesterday as he ... More >>

A guide to DIY comedy tours with the Fine Gentleman's Club

Interstate comedy tours have typically been the métier of famous names capable of drawing big crowds and veterans of the club circuit. Many obstacles stand in the way of aspiring comedians eager to earn their living on the road, from bookers who are unwilling to take a chance on an unknown commodit ... More >>

Columbine to Newtown: A tragic list of school shootings since 1999

The senseless massacre in Newtown, Connecticut, which took the lives of twenty children, including Olivia Engel, seen here, plus seven adults, instantly stirs terrible memories of the 1999 attack on Columbine High School. On the tenth anniversary of that tragedy, we assembled a horrific roster of sc ... More >>

Blue Sushi Sake Grill joins the LoDo swim

The second of three new sushi joints just opened in LoDo. After a series of preview parties, Blue Sushi Sake Grill opened yesterday in the former home of Dixons on the 16th Street Mall (or at least some of it; the other portion is now Lucky Pie).

Weekend's best dance bets: Eats Everything, Pete Moss, VibeSquaD, Mord Fustang and more

Friday night is going to kick this weekend off with a bang, and Saturday night is going to be truly killer, with Eats Everything (among several more out-of-town guests at one party), Pete Moss, Colorado's own VibeSquaD with Phutureprimitive and much more providing the soundtrack to your weekend. Fee ... More >>

Pete Moss wears his DJ hat on March 10 at Funky Buddha

Pete Moss

Review: Cursive at Larimer Lounge, 2/12/12

CURSIVE @ LARIMER LOUNGE | 2/12/12 If it's possible that there's a good time to find out that the first person you said "I love you" to is marrying the girl he dumped you for, you could do worse than the middle of a Cursive show. I'm not saying this happened to me (Congratulations, Joey), but if it ... More >>

Blue Sushi Sake Grill could have LoDo swimming in sushi

Last fall a load of pizza joints signed on to open in LoDo; now it looks like LoDo could soon be swimming in sushi. Blue Sushi Sake Grill, an Omaha-based chain, has signed on to take the space at 1616 16th Street that had once been half of Dixons. "We are excited to announce that we will be opening ... More >>

Maria Taylor

Friday, October 28, hi-dive, 720-570-4500.

The Denver Diatribe: Celebrate the podcast's 50th episode at live "Love & Hate" taping tonight

​Last year at about this time, I blogged about why my friends and I had launched the Denver Diatribe podcast, a labor of digital love that was heavy on the labor. Along with taking some pot shots at Colorado Matters host Ryan Warner and his obsession with bark beetles, I explained that the wee ... More >>

Guns N' Roses announces Denver show

​Next month, Guns N' Roses will kick off its first U.S. tour in five years, but there are still more than a dozen cities on the band's tour itinerary, which the band released yesterday, that have yet to have dates or venues set, including Denver. While the tour, which starts October 28 and run ... More >>

Pretty Lights, DJ Craze, Thievery Corporation and more on this weekend's Dance Card

Pretty Lights.​There's so much on our Dance Card this weekend that we know you'll have a tough time deciding whether you'd rather see Pretty Lights or Thievery Corporation at Red Rocks. Why not do both? Or select one of the other events on our list that's more to your taste? Whatever you decid ... More >>

Tonight: Little Brazil at the Hi-Dive

​Little Brazil (playing tonight at the hi-dive with the Photo Atlas and Take to the Oars) began as the solo project of Landon Hedges, following his time in big name acts like Tim Kasher's The Good Life and the Conor Oberst-led Desparecidos. Eventually Hedges decided fill out his pretty guitar ... More >>

Five new retail stores we'd like to see in Denver

​Now that IKEA and H&M have both signed on the dotted line in metro area, folks who've waited patiently for their first chance to walk in the door of either of those trendy Scandinavian outlets will finally have their day. But after those open, and we're all done dancing in the streets, what's ... More >>

SXSW Travelogue: The Photo Atlas checks in

Brian Frederick​ Thursday, March 17 And it begins ... 4 a.m. we arrive in Austin, Texas, at Casa de Epilogues greeted by hugs and cases of Upslope, after an amazing day of riding rollercoasters and playing three sets at Six Flags-Dallas and an awesome run of shows with the Epilogues, which i ... More >>

Social networking: Denver ranked 3rd in U.S. by Men's Health (eat our hashtags, Portland!)

​Congratulations, Denver: You have officially been swallowed up whole by the Matrix. Men's Health recently came out with its list of the country's most socially networked cities, and Denver, of all places, came in third. Do we get a prize for this? Like a new FarmVille animal or something?

Orenda Fink of Azure Ray on her projects, Drawing Down the Moon and Art Bell

Maria Taylor and Orenda Fink of Azure Ray​ While they were still living in their hometown of Birmingham, Alabama, Orenda Fink and Maria Taylor first played in a band together called Little Red Rocket before moving on to Athens, Georgia, where they formed another outfit called Azure Ray, and t ... More >>

The Denver Diatribe: Why I helped start Denver's best only iTunes friendly podcast

​Lately I've been spending a good chunk of my minimal free time working with Jared Jacang Maher, a former Westword writer now at Face The State and John Dicker, founder of the Geeks Who Drink quiz night empire, to launch the Denver Diatribe, a weekly half-hour podcast on culture, politics and ... More >>

Margot and the Nuclear So and So's to tour in support of Buzzard, forthcoming new record

​Ah, yes, what a splendid birthday present (okay, it isn't exactly our birthday, but close enough). It seems one of our favorite bands, Margot & the Nuclear So and So's, a group we've long been smitten with since first making its acquaintance at South Park some years ago, has a new album slate ... More >>

Is Denver's new zoning proposal a cure for the common code?

The Show Is the Rainbow

Wednesday, November 4, Rhinoceropolis, 303-641-9809.

Nebraska family unwitting photography models for pervy hotel-room peeper

This past August, Nebraska resident Robert Reams and his family took a vacation in Denver, staying at the Tech Center Marriott. Little did they know that as they went about their activities, including changing clothes and bedding down for the evening, they were in full view of a camera installed by ... More >>

Dialed In: This week's local music radio playlists

​Here what the area's local-centric specialty radio shows were spinning this week. We're currently tracking the playlists a number of different shows, including Radio 1190's Local Shakedown, KTCL's Locals Only, 99.5 the Mountain's Homegrown Show*, the Colorado Sound, which originates at KRFC and i ... More >>

Meese back on the road with a modified lineup

​After six weeks off the road spent working on new music and revamping its live show, Meese is back on tour. The outfit is kicking off its upcoming series of shows tonight with a gig at the Theater of the Living Arts in Philadelphia, followed by nearly two dozen dates across the country -- includi ... More >>

Top Ten Americana Albums of 2008

Over the next couple of weeks, Backbeat will feature some Top Ten lists from around the Village Voice Media chain. Click here for previous year-in-review coverage from Backbeat and VVM. Picking the best folk and Americana records of the year isn't nearly as hard as discarding those great records t ... More >>

Mile High Makeout: Flying High

Welcome to Collywood

Welcome to Collywood

Over the Weekend...Swervedriver, the Swayback and Life and Times @ Marquis Theater

Denver Music’s Media Onslaught

Pictureplane gets a shout-out on Pitchfork and Nathaniel Rateliff gets written up in Billboard, while DeVotchKa kills it on Conan and Flobots throw down on Carson Daly.

Last Night...Neva Dinova, Ladyhawk, Vampire Hands @ Hi-Dive

2006 Best of Denver Winners

Our favorite winner from Westword's twenty-third Best of Denver Awards has to be that for "Best (Very) Late-Night People Watching," the Ramada Inn on Colfax: The Ramada Inn Downtown Denver is like a rock-and-roll RV park on weekend nights, when tour buses crowd the parking lot and bleary-eyed music ... More >>

Ports-to-Plains: Keep on Truckin'

A Good-Bye in Vegas

Photo Finish

Sorry, but Denver has nothing to apologize for.

Letters to the Editor

From the week of July 21, 2005

Beep Beep

Friday, February 18, Larimer Lounge, 303-291-1007.

Changing Views

Additions to downtown's built environment and possible subtractions in the hinterlands.

The Beatdown

Usually, the Morning After is all about regret. This one is filled with optimism.

The Fine Art of Capitalism: Then and Now

A side-by-side comparison of William Henry Jackson and John Fielder.

Get Lost

Why dining at Lamonica's is a such a frightful experience.

High School Confidential

Night & Day

August 6 - 12, 1998

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THE OTHER SIDE OF THE TRACKS

NOW DEPARTING: THE FRATERNAL CLUB OF DINING-CAR WAITERS AND PORTERS.ALL ABOARD THEY'VE BEEN WORKING ON THE RAILROAD--AND THEY'VE CHANGED THE FACE OF DENVER IN THE PROCESS.

STAIRWAY TO HELL

OUR LIST OF THE MOST OVERPLAYED CLASSIC-ROCK SONGS OF ALL TIME.

PLAYING BALL AT DU

THE PARENT TRAP