Steven Tyler

Rock of Ages

An Aerosmith concert begs the question: If rock and roll is rebellious, why do your mom and dad like it, too?

Queens of the Stone Age

Rated R
(Interscope Records)

An Explosion of Flavors

Now in a new home, Bang! still does a bang-up job.

Shelter

Behold the Renaissance

Best Bitch

It's a dog-eat-dog world at the Rocky Mountain Cluster.

Aerosmith

Monday, January 30, Pepsi Center, 303-830-8497.

Santana

All That I Am (Arista)

Season's Bleatings

Thanks to these CDs, it's beginning to sound a lot like Christmas.

Well Trained

Polar Express is a kids' action movie that parents will warm to.

Motorized Madness

The boxy, vintage Caterham auto beckons the purist with unbridled speed.

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

The boxy, vintage Caterham auto beckons the purist with unbridled speed.

His Way

As two of his competitors brace for a legal battle, a revived Barry Fey sits quietly by. Kidding!

Anthony B / Bob Marley

Seven Seals
(VP Records)

Chant Down Babylon
(Tuff Gong/Island)

More Songs of the Century

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

The Rolling Stones Live: A Content Analysis

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

Playlist

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

Letters

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

Better Red Than Dead

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

Kids Do the Darnedest Things

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

THE UGLY TRUTH

THE ROCK-AND-ROLLERS WHOSE FACES COULD STOP A CLOCK. UGLY A LOOK AT THE MOST FRIGHTENING FACES IN ROCK AND ROLL.

Q&A with Joe Perry of Aerosmith

Photo by Ross HalfinJoe Perry, right, and his Aerosmith brethren, between hospital visits. In Rolling Stone's list of the greatest guitarists of all-time, Aerosmith's Joe Perry placed 48th -- a ranking capable of slackening the jaw of any true rock-and-roll fan. This former Toxic Twin has penned on ... More >>

Nearly four decades of rocking has taken its toll on Joe Perry and Aerosmith

Photo by Ross HalfinJoe Perry, right, and his Aerosmith brethren, between hospital visits. In Rolling Stone's list of the greatest guitarists of all-time, Aerosmith's Joe Perry placed 48th -- a ranking capable of slackening the jaw of any true rock-and-roll fan. This former Toxic Twin has penned on ... More >>

Last Night: Evangelicals at the Hi-Dive

Evangelicals​ Evangelicals, Holiday Shores, Candy Claws Monday, November 9 The Hi-Dive Better Than: (Sorry about this) The Broncos offense Maybe it's a low blow, but Josh Jones of Evangelicals was responsible for tingling more spines than Brandon Marshall on Monday night, despite the fact th ... More >>

John Haney: City Council District 1 showdown, part 4

John Haney​Over the past several years, northwest Denver has been the site of heated clashes over new development, struggling schools and other hot-button issues -- and the political pot got stirred into a frenzy when Denver City Council District representative Rick Garcia split for a gig with ... More >>

Seven Reasons American Idol Should Be Cancelled

​American Idol has been around for eight years and going on ten seasons. And really, anything has a natural lifespan, and television shows, for the most part, live theirs in close to dog years. Like Great Dane years. Which means, essentially, that American Idol is long in the tooth. It's blind ... More >>

The Ratcracker and ten other sad endings to Christmas stories

​Everyone knows The Nutcracker, but few people know the story -- and that's for a good reason: It's is so slight, it's almost incoherent. Yeah, there's a pseudo-plot in the first act about a battle with a Rat King or something, but that's all wrapped up by the second act, which is devoted pret ... More >>

American Idol is dead. What's next?

​Well, that was fun while it lasted. American Idol had its worst season premiere ever, coming off the heels of its first season where winning didn't translate to commercial pop success. Turns out J-Lo and fossilized Steven Tyler are pushovers trying to make their own careers as much as anyone ... More >>

American Idol: Emma Henry's quest ends, while Julie Zorrilla's continues

Julie Zorrilla​The headline pretty much says it all. If you didn't happen to catch American Idol last night, you missed JLO's dour assessment of Emma Henry's prospects in the competition ringing true. Henry was sent packing after her group, the Deep V's -- which included James Durbin, that ann ... More >>

Five better things for JLo to cry about than American Idol

​JLo couldn't handle the dream crushing on last week's American Idol. Apparently, she was under the impression that this show consisted of judges telling people how inspiring their life stories are. She shed some tears and questioned her future on the show, but despite the manufactured drama, ... More >>

A first look at Adam Baumeister of Bad Weather California's warped Aerosmith video trilogy

​Remember in the '90s when Aerosmith was really old, but somehow still popular? Adam Baumeister of Bad Weather California is helping us all relive those days with a trilogy of re-worked videos from the Get A Grip-era. Only he's made these gratuitously awkward scenes actually tolerable by setti ... More >>

Feather earrings annoy fishermen looking for lures

​Remember in the '90s when Aerosmith was really old, but somehow still popular? Adam Baumeister of Bad Weather California is helping us all relive those days with a trilogy of re-worked videos from the Get A Grip-era. Only he's made these gratuitously awkward scenes actually tolerable by setti ... More >>

New music marketed to old people: AARP Internet radio

​Remember in the '90s when Aerosmith was really old, but somehow still popular? Adam Baumeister of Bad Weather California is helping us all relive those days with a trilogy of re-worked videos from the Get A Grip-era. Only he's made these gratuitously awkward scenes actually tolerable by setti ... More >>

Former band geek Ke$ha explains the $ in her name

​Remember in the '90s when Aerosmith was really old, but somehow still popular? Adam Baumeister of Bad Weather California is helping us all relive those days with a trilogy of re-worked videos from the Get A Grip-era. Only he's made these gratuitously awkward scenes actually tolerable by setti ... More >>

The Steven Tyler Cabbage Patch Kid is as creepy as you'd expect

​Remember in the '90s when Aerosmith was really old, but somehow still popular? Adam Baumeister of Bad Weather California is helping us all relive those days with a trilogy of re-worked videos from the Get A Grip-era. Only he's made these gratuitously awkward scenes actually tolerable by setti ... More >>

Barry Fey on that time that he held a gun to Axl Rose's head and how the business has changed

​For years, Barry Fey says, music fans have been needling him to write a book. "You know, people have been saying 'When's the book? When's the book?' for fifteen years," Fey notes. "It was daily, wherever I would go out... 'When's the book? Come on, you've got to write a book!'" Well, he final ... More >>

American Idol is back, with a new host of hopefuls

If the hat Steven Tyler wore during last night's premiere of American Idol is anything to go by, it's going to be an interesting season.​Nearly eight months since Scotty McCreery became America's latest Idol in May 2011, it's good to have the cast of American Idol 2.0 back in action. To wit, R ... More >>

American Idol in Pittsburgh: Judges still too soft

It's about damn time Randy Jackson got hard again.​American Idol glided through Pittsburgh last night without blemish. There weren't any major breakdowns, nor letdowns, nor catty digs at Steven Tyler's wacky facial expressions. No, the Steel City produced a cornucopia of talented, Hollywood-bo ... More >>

American Idol in San Diego: The only one to be idolized is Jennifer Lopez

There's only room for one idol in this city. It's Jennifer Lopez.​Last night's episode of American Idol saw auditions in a vastly different location than usual: the USS Midway aircraft carrier in San Diego, California. At points, the industrial and fly-over noise was a nuisance, but it didn't ... More >>

American Idol in Aspen: Magic Cyclops befriends Steven Tyler... 'nuf said

​The fourth episode of American Idol auditions took us four hours from the Mile High City to Aspen, where we saw many a Denver hopeful either break through to the Hollywood round or get the good ol' Randy Jackson boot. Unlike previous audition episodes thus far in the season, last night we fi ... More >>

American Idol in Galveston: Just like the good ol' days

Ramiro Garcia​Last night's episode of American Idol offered us a few strong contenders and an out-of-place space shuttle opening sequence. Houston, we have a problem: we're not actually in Houston -- despite misleading promos, we're in Galveston, Texas. Don't be deceived, people. Skylar Laine ... More >>

America Idol in Portland: The judges were spot on, but the contestants were a mixed bag

The panel was harder on Portland than previous cities, but it was a welcomed change of pace.​If you're going to take on Freddie Mercury's vocal prowess on "Somebody To Love" and use it as an audition piece for American Idol, you better be able to hit those notes. Unfortunately for the baby-fac ... More >>

American Idol in St. Louis: When the contestants are good, they're really good

Lauren Gray: a female favorite going into the Hollywood round next week.​Ah, the last of the auditions round of American Idol . With mediocre expectations of the talent going into the Hollywood round, there aren't more than ten contestants who truly blew us away thus far in the competition. Ho ... More >>

American Idol: Hollywood auditions, round 1

Steven Tyler, Jennifer Lopez and Randy Jackson in Hollywood.​Last night's first Hollywood round of auditions on American Idol played like a rapid fire of hopes and dreams realized and shattered and realized and shattered, like an endless loop of Aerosmith songs -- at times, entertaining; at ot ... More >>

Magic Cyclops, American Idol nopeful, extends his nationwide notoriety

​Ah, yes, Magic Cyclops: To know him is to love him. The Quad City Madman (not really, you swag-jacking morning show mooks in Davenport -- he's all ours) has successfully turned a fleeting American Idol cameo into catapult to fame and fortune. Er, maybe just fame. The fortune part is still elu ... More >>

Meet Su Charles, the latest American Idol hopeful from Denver

Dave HerreraIs Su Charles the next American Idol?​Denver, meet Su Charles (aka SuCh), the latest American Idol hopeful from our city. Aside from having an exceptional voice, Charles has quite an inspiring story. The child of Haitian immigrants, Charles was born in Boston to pastor and a school ... More >>