Subject: Pere Ubu

• Delegating Denver #12 of 56: Florida

  October 8, 2007

• Best Radio Lefty

  March 29, 2001

• Rocket From the Tombs

  May 2, 2002

• Q&A with Fucked Up's Damian Abraham

  The February 4 profile "Fucked Up Pushes Punk Into the Future By Understanding the Past" is pretty hefty -- nearly 1,400 words. And yet it only uses a small portion of the quotes offered by Fucked Up frontman Damian Abraham during a sprawling, wide-ranging and hugely entertaining conversation that can be found in its entirety below.

  February 5, 2009

• John Wilkes Booze

  Thursday, September 29, hi-dive, 720-570-4500.

  September 29, 2005

• Lil Slugger

  Larimer Lounge

  March 6, 2008

• Liars

  Friday, February 1, Marquis Theater, 1-866-468-7621.

  January 31, 2008

• Weird Al-right

  Two decades on, Little Fyodor is still strange, witty and real.

  January 5, 2006

• Retribution Gospel Choir

  Wednesday, August 31, Larimer Lounge, 303-291-1007.

  August 25, 2005

• Knife & Fork

  Miserycord (Cutting Board Records)

  November 4, 2004

• Lost at Scene

  After spearheading the post-punk revival, GoGoGo Airheart is still on its own island.

  February 26, 2004

• Soul Assassins

  When it comes to rock and revolution, John Wilkes Booze is loaded.

  July 17, 2003

• Avant Garage

  Nearing thirty years as the most challenging rock band on earth, Pere Ubu waxes enigmatic.

  February 27, 2003

• This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

  February 27, 2003

• That's a Wrap-Up

  Backbeat writers sound off on a few of their favorite musical things from 2002.

  December 26, 2002

• Strange Vibrations

  Sound tumblers Chris Cutler and Thomas Dimuzio flirt with the fault line.

  November 9, 2000

• Leftoverture

  Alternative rockers are getting behind Alternative Radio.

  August 17, 2000

• Prague Rock

  Uz Jsme Doma creates a bohemian rhapsody.

  June 1, 2000

• Panther, Panther Burning Bright

  Re-examining the cultural legacy of the MC5.

  April 6, 2000

• A Weasel No More

  Get reacquainted with Steve Knutson, the Denver rock-scene alum behind four CDs' worth of hip-hop history.

  January 28, 1999

• The Power of Positive Thinking

  For the members of Thinking Plague, simple isn't necessarily better.

  January 7, 1999

• Feedback

  July 24, 1997

• Thrills for the week

  May 15, 1997

• The Prize Patrol

  The biggest musical winners from 1996.

  December 26, 1996

• THRILLS

  April 5, 1995

• PONYS' TALE

  March 29, 1995

• PLAYLIST

  February 8, 1995

• REASONS TO BE GLAD

  September 7, 1994

• Playlist

  The Velvet Underground, Big Star, Guru, The Drop Nineteens

  January 12, 1994

• Q&A with Mike Watt

  Mike Watt is most certainly a man whose thoughts cannot be expressed in a mere 500 or so words. Needless to say, this week's Rough Mixes entry only highlighted excerpts of our recent conversation with punk's elder statesman. While on tour supporting his newest punk rock opera "Hyphenated Man" and in advance of his upcoming show in Denver at the Larimer Lounge, Watt took some time between his soundcheck and his gig opening for Dinosaur Jr. at the Neighborhood Theatre in Charlotte, North Carolina,

  May 13, 2009