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The 25 creepiest metal album covers

Halloween is the time where it's acceptable to wallow in the creepy, the crawly, the dark, and the macabre. Sounds like the themes of heavy metal, year-round! Here then, are those most spine-tingliest metal album covers, for your All Hallow's Eve viewing pleasure. Step inside... See also: - The 25 ... More >>

25 ass-shaking GIFs from Lollapalooza 2012

See Also: - Four reasons Lollapalooza needs EDM - Enjoy these dance-move GIFs from Global Dance Festival - Ten Coachella dance-move GIFs to make you feel good about yourself This past weekend's running of Lollapalooza in Chicago was intense. The heat, the monsoon-like storm on Saturday, and even t ... More >>

Medical marijuana dispensary review: At Home Remedies in Denver

Like the working-class neighborhood where it's based, At Home Remedies is more function than fashion. The mudroom-turned-waiting room at the front of the house is furnished with scrolled antique furniture with a loud, gaudy and awesome 1970s-style white floral print and Astroturf is liberally used a ... More >>

Randy Rhoads: Thirty years ago today, a tragic accident took the life of a legendary guitarist

The 1980s did not start well for Ozzy Osbourne. After being kicked out of Black Sabbath, the Prince of Darkness holed up in an L.A. hotel room, planning to remain as drunk as possible until his money ran out, and then probably move back to England to work as a laborer. He met future wife Sharon Arde ... More >>

Alexi Laiho of Children of Bodom: "Yeah, I broke my shoulder bowling."

Children of Bodom (due tomorrow night at the Gothic Theater) formed in 1993 in the Finnish town of Espoo. Lead guitarist and singer Alexi Laiho and drummer Jaska Raatikainen formed the band around the age of fourteen under the name Inearthed. By the time the outfit released its debut album, 1997's S ... More >>

Gauntlet Hair's "Keep Time" video will scare the crap out of you -- or at least really creep you out

​To celebrate the release of its new, self-titled record, Gauntlet Hair (confirmed as the headliner for the Larimer Lounge's New Years Eve show) has dropped a video for the album's lead track, "Keep Time," and despite Halloween having come and gone, this sucker will still scare the bejeesus ou ... More >>

Scott Ian of Anthrax on Worship Music, comic books, Doctor Who, VH1 and interviewing Ozzy

Scott Ian of Anthrax​Anthrax (due Wednesday, October 19, at Summit Music Hall) is one of the Big Four thrash bands from the '80s and the only one originally based on the East Coast. More than most metal bands, Anthrax seemed willing to smile and display a wicked yet playful sense of humor -- e ... More >>

Keeping It Real

Scare Tactics: The top five most horrifying acting performances by musicians

​Apparently Jack Osbourne (son of Ozzy) is going to appear in a new horror film due to be released in...wait, we don't care. The news did, however, spark our interest enough to take a look at what other rockers have squandered their reputation broadened their horizons by acting in horror movie ... More >>

St. Vitus

Tuesday, March 29, Summit Music Hall, 1-866-468-7621.

Ozzy Osbourne at the Pepsi Center, 2.8.11

Aaron ThackerayHey, look: It's the Prince of Fucking Darkness, man!​ OZZY OSBOURNE With Slash 02.08.11 | Pepsi Center Ozzy Osbourne layeth the smack down last night at the Pepsi Center with Slash -- he of the shaggy mane, top hat, Velvet Revolver and, of course, Guns N' Roses -- in tow. A c ... More >>

Maybe Japan's on to something: Who needs live music when you have hollograms?

Since the dawn of live music, artists have canceled shows for various reasons. Gigs have been called for sickness, deaths in the family, dog ate the set-list, etc, etc, blah blah blah. Crypton Future Media based out of Sapporo, Japan, has finally found a way to remedy this situation with the help ... More >>

Top Five Most Outrageous Musician Stunts

Last week, on the 101 freeway in downtown Los Angeles, a previously unknown rap-rock group called Imperial Stars stopped traffic so they could play an impromptu gig on the roof of the panel van. Appropriately, the Imperial doofuses performed a song titled "Traffic Jam 101." This über-lame, Airhea ... More >>

Ozzy Osbourne, Crystal Castles and Lucero shows announced

The Ozzman cometh to the Pepsi Center in February​Ozzy Osbourne, who just launched a column in Rolling Stone called Ask Dr. Ozzy, in which he offers health and diet tips (no, really), hits the Pepsi Center with Slash on Tuesday, February 8, as part of an eighteen-month long world tour, which i ... More >>

When animals attack - musician edition

​We're all familiar with Ozzy Osbourne's infamous unprovoked attack on a bat in the early '80s, but rarely do you hear stories about animals attacking musicians. Until now, that is. Earlier this week, Bloc Party and Ash guitarist Russell Lissack was reportedly attacked by a lion cub while visi ... More >>

In honor of Paste Magazine's passing, here are five more print magazines we miss

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The Roots, Eminem top sellers at local record stores

​How I Got Over, the Roots' latest effort released last week on Def Jam, took the spot at Twist & Shout, second at Albums on the Hill and third at Independent Records for the week ending June 27. Eminem's new disc, Recovery, debuted at number one at Independent Records while coming in third at ... More >>

Ozzy Osbourne and ten other old dudes who should just hang it up already

Like so many new albums from old dudes, it's not that Ozzy Osbourne's Scream, which was released today, is not good, per se -- it's that it's not needed. While Osbourne's new effort updates his shtick a bit -- it sounds like he's been listening to a long of Norwegian opera-metal and possibly some ... More >>

Pentagram at the Marquis: "It's more like Penta-jam"

Pentagram. Photos by Tom Murphy​ Pentagram • Space in Time • Kingdom of Magic 03.17.10 | Marquis Theatre A night of exceptionally interesting hard rock that ended with '70s metal legends Pentagram began with the new-look Space in Time. They were surprisingly confident and assured. The ba ... More >>

Denver Blogs: Carmelo can't do it by himself, for Christ's sake

Chauncey Billups, before the humiliation.​Almost wintertime, when the Denver bloggin' is easy. The Nugg Doctor's Nick Sclafani recaps last night's agonizing Nuggets loss in Detroit, when 40 points from Melo wasn't enough. What the hell? Colorado Pols has more on what it's dubbed the "Dr. Evi ... More >>

Q&A with Terrance Hobbs of Suffocation

The Suffocation piece running in this week's paper was culled from Phil Freeman's recent conversation with Terrance Hobbs of Suffocation. As with many of our other Rough Mixes features, there's far more to the story of this stalwart New York-based death metal band than there was space. As such, afte ... More >>

TaunTaun

For Us to Destroy
Self-released

Q&A with Martin Short

Look of the Day -- Swayback’s William Murphy

Q&A With Geezer Butler of Heaven and Hell/Black Sabbath

Heaven and Hell

Tuesday, September 25, Coors Amphitheater, 303-830-8497.

Munky from Korn Q&A

Unearth

Wednesday, July 31, Fillmore Auditorium, 303-830-8497.

Listen Up

Fast reviews of recent releases

Best Frontman

Brian Hagman
Black Lamb

Black Smiths

Black Smiths (Self-released)

Darkest Hour

Monday, December 6, Rock Island, 303-572-7625.

The Birthday Girl

You Are the Birthday Girl (Shelter Thee Records)

Fire in the Hole

A Fire Inside burns through the smog.

Best Follicle Restorer

Follicle Nutrient System (FNS), by Osmotics

Backwash

Blister 66 gets ready to get signed. Again.

Bite Me

Star Trek

Urban Aboriginee

Body (Urban Aboriginee)

Backwash

The scariest thing about Ozzfest isn’t the music. It’s the price bands have to pay just to play in it.

Backwash

Rockers gathered in their masses during Ozzfest, one of Mile High's last hectic hurrahs.

Backwash

16 HP rides high with Hoarse, a new collections of live cuts from local performances.

Best Ozzy Cover by a Country Act

"Crazy Train"
The Railbenders

The Major and the Minor

A roundup of big-name recordings that live up (or down) to expectations.

Chick-a-Vroom!

Gassing it up with the Secret Servix Scootin' Chicks All Girls Scooter Club.

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