The Sex Pistols

Denver's ten best jukeboxes

More and more, you've probably noticed an influx of Internet jukeboxes, the kind that offer a seemingly endless assortment of songs, cropping up in bars. But there are still a handful of spots rocking old school CD jukeboxes that require a bit of taste-making. Here's the ten best, including this yea ... More >>

Ten Essential albums from the CBGB scene

It's easy to look at what's become of rock music over the last three and a half decades and find countless traces of the CBGB micro-culture and the fast-and-loud aesthetic it cultivated. During their now-legendary years at CBGB, bands like the Ramones, Talking Heads, Blondie and Patti Smith were dis ... More >>

Back from the Dead

The ten traits of the perfect frontperson

The best frontmen and women all have something in common. Whether it's their ability to connect with a crowd or the swagger with which they carry themselves, their fashion sense, the intrigue that surrounds them or their reckless disregard for their own well being, they all have that ineffable "it" ... More >>

Buzz Osborne of Melvins on how to him Beastie Boys were Warlock Pinchers for Dummies

Since 1983, Melvins have been perfecting their brand of influential rock, inspired in part by punk and in part by the music Buzz Osborne and Dale Crover grew up hearing as kids in the '60s and '70s. With Melvins, the two have taken that sound to different places with each record that their contempor ... More >>

Primal Time

Flipper: "We had people reporting that they'd seen our graffiti on the Great Wall of China"

Flipper (due tonight and tomorrow night at the Lion's Lair) got its start in 1979 in the creatively fertile arts and music scene in San Francisco. Formed after the break-up of Negative Trend and including two former members of that band, Will Shatter and Stephen DePace, Flipper didn't set out to be ... More >>

Saturday Night Live: The best, worst and most controversial performances

Update: 10:39 a.m. Sunday The Shins were on Saturday Night Live last night night weekend's musical guests. Being invited to be the musical guest on an episode of SNL has been a benchmark of commercial success for any band of the last forty years. And for good reason: From Andy Kaufman annihilating ... More >>

The Sex Pistols signed with A&M outside Buckingham Palace 35 years ago today

In the history of rock there has never been a greater example of media manipulation than the Sex Pistols. From the Stones refusing to wear a tie to Bowie claiming he was gay to Ozzy biting the head off a dove, press savvy rockers have been tricking the media into endless headline coverage as long as ... More >>

Damned Damned Damned turns 35

It's unfortunate that so many people assume that U.K. punk was all about politics. When Bill Maher interviewed Green Day's Billy Joe Armstrong on his show Real Time with Bill Maher last year, he questioned the singer's punk credibility for working to help elect Barack Obama in 2008, referring to Th ... More >>

Punk rock politics, pop culture retromania and more new release picks for July 19, 2011

​With the dearth of new releases this week, it seems like the media industries think we should all get out of the house a little in the summer, or they don't like releasing anything new. What they don't know is that it's too damn hot outside, and nobody with any sense really wants to go out th ... More >>

Download MartyParty and FreQ Nasty tracks in advance of Monsters of Bass

FreQ Nasty.​Renegade producer FreQ Nasty is now on the Monsters of Bass tour with MartyParty (one half of PantyRaid) and Opiou; they'll stop at Cervantes Masterpiece Ballroom on Wednesday, March 2. To help get you in the mood for the bass, we've got two downloads for you today: FreQ Nasty's "D ... 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 >>

Billy Duffy of the Cult on punk's influence and playing with Morrisey in the Nosebleeds

​ Many people heard The Cult after its breakthrough album, Love, which contained the classic single "She Sells Sanctuary," was released in 1985. But The Cult increasingly became a worldwide phenomenon with its following two albums, Electric and Sonic Temple.

Like a great character actor, Mark Mallman says he feels like someone else when he's on stage

Kinetix on recording at the Blasting Room, getting to perform at the Fillmore and offering up a stoner-approved rendition of "Bohemian Rhapsody"

​ In this week's paper, we ran excerpts of Andy Thomas's recent conversation with the members of Kinetix in Rough Mixes. That Q&A barely scratched the surface. After the jump, you'll find not only Thomas's exchange with band in its entirety but the transcript from Dutch Seyfarth's recent chat ... More >>

He may no longer be Rotten, but John Lydon is still quite the PiL

RIP Malcolm McLaren: A look back at the five great songs he left behind

​We may remember Malcolm McLaren, who passed away yesterday at the age of 64, as the manager of the Sex Pistols and New York Dolls, but he was also a musician and experimenter. Hell, he even created the song used in British Airways advertising for over fifteen years. His music was eclectic, an ... More >>

Q&A with Ilya Laqutenko of Mumiy Troll

Michael Muller​Mumiy Troll from Vladivostok, Russia is one of that country's most popular bands. The act's combination of energetic rock and moodily atmospheric pop, for which lead singer Ilya Lagutenko coined the term "rockapops," has been gaining popularity in America despite the fact that, up t ... More >>

999

Monday, July 27, Marquis Theater, 866-468-7621.

Let your hair down at Eck's

Air Dubai

The Early October
teamSKETCH

Q&A With Be Your Own Pet's Jemina Pearl Abegg

Early Start

Get a jump on Monolith six months in advance.

Sex Pistols Shoot Nostalgia Dead, and Other Assorted Goodies

Subhumans (U.K.)

Monday, August 27, Marquis Theater, 303-292-0805.

Melt-Banana

Friday, June 29, Bluebird Theater, 303-830-8497.

Listen Up

Fast reviews of recent releases

Bloc Party On

Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

Who will be inducted next? Gaze into our crystal ball.

Towers of London

Blood Sweat & Towers (TVT)

Milkshakes

hi-dive

The Adicts

Monday, July 4, Bender's Tavern, 303-861-7070.

Best Karaoke Night

Bender's 13th Avenue Tavern

Wanker

The Total Wanker (Self-released)

The Black Halos

Monday, November 29, Larimer Lounge, 303-291-0959.

Stellastarr*

Stellastarr* (RCA)

Rocket From the Tombs

The Day the Earth Met the Rocket From the Tombs (Smog Veil Records)

Season to Risk

Shattering (Owned & Operated)

Critic's Choice

Pure Rubbish

Young Guns

Never mind the rumors; here's the Sex Pistols.

The Grandfathers of Punk

Denver's early punk rock pioneers are remembered

Cocked and Loaded

British punk pioneers the Buzzcocks invade America -- again.

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Thrills for the week

CRITIC'S CHOICE

ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE

COME TOGETHER--AGAIN