Subject: The Pogues

• Beyond Playlist: The All-Soundtrack Edition

  January 18, 2008

• Jameson Rarest Vintage Reserve: Best. Whiskey. Ever.

  April 2, 2008

• Jameson Rarest Vintage Reserve: Best. Whiskey. Ever.

  April 2, 2008

• Mile High Music Fest Live Blog, Day Two

  July 20, 2008

• Week Five in Hell's Kitchen: Ballroom Blitz

  August 2, 2008

• The only Christmas song you'll ever need

  On this fine Christmas Eve, I gift all of you with a link to the finest Christmas song ever recorded, and the only one anyone ever truly needed. It's a song about the brutal, cold reality behind all of our romantic pretension, and about love that still manages to hang on despite all the tears, regrets and recriminations. It's bitter and beautiful and perfect. If the picture didn't tip you off, it's the Pogues classic "Fairytale of New York" and I've embedded it after the jump in the form of a s

  December 24, 2008

• Bite Me

  March 11, 2004

• Celebrity Bucket List

  Amy Winehouse, Chuck Berry, Bobby Brown: Who'll be the first to go?

  February 14, 2008

• Heavy Rotation, our top five spins for the week of April 13, 2009

  As music critics, the most common question we get asked (and ask each other, for that matter) is, "What are you listening to?" The pervasiveness of this query is precisely what inspired Heavy Rotation, our latest feature. For the benefit of those who happen to be curious, we've compiled a list of all the things we're listening to this week. Feel free to chime in with your own picks after the jump.

  April 14, 2009

• How to create a great Irish bar

  January 8, 2009

• Tocabe does Chipotle one better -- with fry bread

  April 16, 2009

• Irish It Were Summer

  The summer kicks off with some green-hued music at Conor O’Neill’s Summer Outdoor Music Festival.

  June 20, 2002

• Pogue Mahone’s

  Get your Irish on at this Parker pub.

  May 22, 2008

• The Succulent Sounds of Dark Meat

  From Athens, Georgia, comes yet another great new American band.

  May 1, 2008

• Sanity Claus

  Separating holiday-music gifts from seasonal disorders.

  December 13, 2007

• Listen Up

  Fast reviews of recent releases

  August 30, 2007

• Westword Music Showcase 2007

  Saturday, June 16

  June 14, 2007

• Modest Mouse

  We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank
  Epic

  April 5, 2007

• British Bulldog

  Meet DJ No Fear

  March 22, 2007

• Listen Up

  Fast reviews of recent releases

  September 14, 2006

• Westword Music Showcase 2006

  Be there or be square!

  June 15, 2006

• Chasing the Green Fairy

  Absinthe makes the heart grow fonder.

  June 1, 2006

• Left Out in the Coldplay

  Fiona Apple and Chris Martin have their games down Cold.

  February 23, 2006

• DJ Nights

  15th Street Tavern, Skylark Lounge

  January 26, 2006

• Swindled Art

  January 19, 2006

• Freestyle Fellowship

  Awesome live bands sometimes make magic in the studio, too.

  December 29, 2005

• Listen Up

  Fast reviews of recent releases

  December 8, 2005

• Taking Hold

  The Hold Steady's literate brand of rock is way above average.

  June 16, 2005

• Stirring the Eire

  Flogging Molly resurfaces with its most politically charged album.

  March 10, 2005

• Various Artists

  Left of the Dial: Dispatches From the '80s Underground (Rhino)

  October 28, 2004

• Perfect Rx

  Ted Leo and the Pharmacists find that just a spoonful of anger helps the medicine go down.

  November 20, 2003

• The Show(case) Must Go On!

  June 19, 2003

• Critic's Choice

  Flogging Molly

  May 2, 2002

• X Marks the Spot

  Former SST producer Spot brings underground Celtic sounds into the light.

  August 24, 2000

• Dolomites

  A Hogshead of Whiskey
  (Walking Records)

  August 3, 2000

• Prague Rock

  Uz Jsme Doma creates a bohemian rhapsody.

  June 1, 2000

• Indulge Yourself

  The Irish rockers in the Indulgers are part of the green wave that's sweeping Colorado.

  January 14, 1999

• Playlist

  March 28, 1996

• JUST SAY NOEL

  THIS YEAR'S CHRISTMAS DISCS PROVIDE SOME ROUGH SLEDDING.

  December 13, 1995

• POUR BOY

  SHANE MACGOWAN ENJOYS WINE, WOMEN AND SONG, IN ROUGHLY THAT ORDER.

  November 22, 1995

• THRILLS

  November 22, 1995

• LETTERS

  August 23, 1995

• Tocabe inspires a fry bread confessional

  Tocabe: An American Indian Eatery does Chipotle one better -- with fry bread.Like whiskey and the music of the Pogues from the Irish, tortillas from the Mexicans, prosciutto from the Italians and mother sauces and threesomes from the French, fry bread is the Native American people's proud contribution to our mutt and multicultural present, one of the most awe-inspiring culinary innovations of all time.  As a base for an entire left-hand branch of cuisine, fry bread is as important as masa,

  April 14, 2009

• The Pogues, Dinosaur Jr., Creed shows announced

  Shane MacGowan and his new set of choppers. Last month, The Sun reported that Shane MacGowan got himself a new pair of dentures to stop his face from "falling apart" after 35 years on the thrash. Sure, the dude's been known as a drunkard of the highest order, he's missed a few planes to gigs over the years and eventually got kicked out of the band. Just the same, some of us are probably just as surprised to see MacGowan on tour again with the original line-up (Jem Finer, Spider Stacy, James Fear

  June 23, 2009

• The Fainting Goat revived a doomed address

  June 18, 2009

• Heavy Rotation, our top spins for the week of October 5, 2009

  ​​As music critics, the most common question we get asked (and ask each other, for that matter) is, "What are you listening to?" The pervasiveness of this query is precisely what inspired Heavy Rotation, our latest feature. For the benefit of those who happen to be curious, we've compiled a list of all the things we're listening to this week. Feel free to chime in with picks of your own after the jump.

  October 8, 2009

• Q&A with Philip Chevron of the Pogues

  ​While this week's preview of the Pogues' show this Friday at the Ogden Theatre only scratched the surface of our interview with guitarist Philip Chevron, who also talked at length about Just Look Them Straight In The Eye And Say... Pogue Mahone!!, the five-disc box set of b-sides, outtakes, live tracks released last year that's currently only available as an import. We spoke with Chevron, who was in Seattle to rehearse a few days before the tour started, about working with singer Shane MacGow

  October 21, 2009

• With Shane MacGowan back on board, the Pogues make their first trip to Denver

  October 22, 2009

• Over the weekend: The Pogues at the Ogden Theatre

  Jon Solomon​The Pogues Friday, October 23, 2009Ogden TheatreBetter than: expected. Much better. "Sorry it's taken us awhile to get here," guitarist Philip Chevron said during the Pogues' first show ever in Denver. "Almost thirty years in fact, but we finally got here." But holy Jesus, the epic two-hour set these guys delivered was more than worth the wait. There had been some less than favorable accounts of frontman Shane MacGowan's at a few other dates on the current American tour, but MacGow

  October 26, 2009