The Strokes

New Denver shows: Maroon 5 and Kelly Clarkson, Fall Out Boy and Warren Haynes

Brace yourself for the return of Fall Out Boy. The dudes are evidently back to save rock and roll. Maroon 5 and Kelly Clarkson, meanwhile, are teaming up for a co-headlining date at Fiddler's Green for the Honda Civic Tour, and Warren Hayes is set to collaborate with the Colorado Symphony Orchestra ... More >>

Video: The five best bands that broke up in 2011 -- paired with five of their saddest songs

Bands break up all the time. This is an established fact, and depending upon how many of your favorite band's original members are alive, sane or producing concept albums, it can be a welcome one. The only difference this year is the purely unfair share of fallen rock soldiers that will have ended w ... More >>

The 10 worst smelling rock star-branded perfumes or colognes

Now you can smell like a teen girl in love with Justin Bieber.​Smelling like a rock star wasn't always considered a good thing. But now that The Strokes' Julian Casablancas is the face and inspiration of Azzaro's new perfume, Decibel, and Prince has to pay $4 million to a company over his fail ... More >>

Balkans

Friday, September 2, Larimer Lounge, 303-291-1007.

Mile Highlights: Shows announced/on sale this week, local radio playlists and top local sellers

​ Here's what's good in the Mile High City this week. On the concert front: Peter Gabriel and Widespread Panic are coming to Red Rocks in June, while Sade is due at the Pepsi Center in August. Meanwhile on local radio, My Body Sings Electric, Pacific Pride, the Sunshine House and String Chees ... More >>

SXSW Travelogue: The Photo Atlas checks in

Brian Frederick​ Thursday, March 17 And it begins ... 4 a.m. we arrive in Austin, Texas, at Casa de Epilogues greeted by hugs and cases of Upslope, after an amazing day of riding rollercoasters and playing three sets at Six Flags-Dallas and an awesome run of shows with the Epilogues, which i ... More >>

Tonight: The Coronas at the Larimer Lounge

​Forming at the tender age of fifteen in the early '00s, there's no doubt the Coronas sound was shaped by The Strokes and their ilk. At times, the still youngish four-piece even channel a little of that Gin Blossoms' movie soundtrack charm -- guitars and piano merge dramatically with drums and ... More >>

What's your dream Mile High Music Festival lineup? Here's ours.

Cypress Hill getting lifted at last year's MHMF. You'll think we're just as high when you see our list.​Okay so by now you've had a chance to absorb the deflating news that the Mile High Music Festival is being put on ice this year, and you've even offered up with some suggestions of how to ma ... More >>

Asstastic: 10 album covers celebrating the gluteus maximus inspired by Born This Way

Gaga's nostalgia-inducing butt.​Although physical albums are on there way to being rendered completely useless, there was a time -- believe it or not -- back when telephones still had curly cords, that all recordings were only available in a tangible form. As such you developed attachments to ... More >>

Tonight: Melismatics at the hi-dive

​Minneapolis' Melismatics have a transportative quality, like a step back to a time to when rock and roll was just drums, bass, guitar and vocals. This isn't a bad thing at all -- the band's nostalgic sound taps into The Strokes' prime era of the early '00s, but with the more glamorous nuances ... More >>

Top ten most blatant and alleged song heists

Earlier this week, Nick Cave responded to accusations that he nicked the basis of the song "Palaces of Montezuma" from a tune by some guy named Frank Duffy called "Grey Man." It seems absurd someone as versatile as Cave would intentionally borrow a lick or two from another song. Any similarities ... More >>

Photos: Lollapalooza Day One in Chicago with Lady Gaga, Matt and Kim, the Strokes

Day one of Lollapalooza in Grant Park in Chicago is in the books. Freelance photographer Mark C. Austin brings back these photos from the festival. Lady Gaga

Sorry, Amnesiac, you were way ahead of us

​ I was fifteen when I heard Radiohead's OK Computer for the first time. This was shortly after seeing "Karma Police" on MTV and knowing I had to have the album right away. Like Pablo Honey, OK Computer was straightforward enough for my undeveloped palette, but the band had also gotten notice ... More >>

Julian Casablancas at the Ogden: One hour, a dozen songs and out

​Julian Casablancas | Haim 04.21.10 | The Ogden Theater Being a bit of a curmudgeon about the Strokes, it was with something more than a small amount of trepidation that I approached frontman Julian Casablancas' solo show last night at the Ogden. It's not that the Strokes are bad (they're not ... More >>

Win tickets to see Julian Casablancas tonight at the Ogden

​ For those not attending Jonsi's show at the Paramount this evening, Julian Casablancas, frontman of the Strokes, with whom we spoke with last week, is due the Ogden Theatre, where he be bringing his solo album Phrazes for the Young to life. How would you and a guest like to be our guests at ... More >>

Julian Casablancas has spent a career trying to catch up with the Strokes' first album

Love, angst and something else are in the air in Remember Me

O Pioneers!!!

Friday, December 11, Marquis Theater, 866-468-7621.

Stellastarr*

Wednesday, December 9, Larimer Lounge, 303-291-1007.

The Weekend Showdown: Get (Pacific) Prideful

Bailey Ferguson​ We would hate for you to miss out on all the awesome that happens every weekend in our fair city, so we've decided to run down three of the best shows in one easy-to-swallow post, with video and audio. Tell us -- and the rest of the world -- what we missed in the comments.

Q&A with Krispy Kream of the Knux

​Don't let the tight jeans and thick-rimmed glasses fool you. The brothers who make up The Knux were raised about as far away from the suburbs as you can get: New Orleans' Ninth Ward. Still, Krispy Kream and Rah Almillio (aka Kentrell and Alvin Lindsey) found their sound by listening to just a ... More >>

Over the weekend: Cut Off Your Hands at the hi-dive

Cut Off Your Hands Sunday, March 8, 2009 Hi-Dive, Denver Better Than: Not seeing this band before they're playing bigger venues. Cut Off Your Hands plays pretty straightforward pop rock. Just the same, frontman Nick Johnston displayed considerable amount of vigor, leaning into the mike and gyrating ... More >>

Nickel Eye

Monday, January 26, Marquis Theater, 1-866-468-7621.

This Just In 12/25-12/31/08

Steve Earl & the Bluegrass Dukes will be one of the many acts at next summer's RockyGrass.Steve Earl & the Bluegrass Dukes, Hot Rize, Earl Scruggs, Del McCoury Band, Claire Lynch Band are among the many acts announced for the initial line-up for the 37th Annual RockyGrass festival, which wil ... More >>

Live Review: Yellow Fever with Hot White and Motel Saints

The Kooks

Thursday, May 29, Ogden Theatre, 303-830-8497.

45 Second Reviews: Colour Revolt, Ours, Tokyo Police Club, Jordan Zevon

Shred Cred

You wanted the best, you got the best: Guitar Hero III.

Albert Hammond Jr.

One of the Strokes’ guitarists experiences the pros and cons of going it alone.

Tabú

One good turn deserves another.

Letters to the Editor

From the week of May 18, 2006

Different Strokes

Nikolai Fraiture says his band has changed. What's he talkin' 'bout?

Koufax

Thursday, February 9, Marquis Theatre, 1-866-468-7621.

Elefant

Sunday, February 5, Gothic Theatre, 303-788-0984.

The Strokes

First Impressions of Earth (RCA)

Koufax

Thursday, August 4, Larimer Lounge, 303-291-1007.

Heartless Bastards

Friday, June 17, Lion's Lair, 303-320-9200.

Best Concert (Since March 2004)

The Killers
April 20, 2004

Moving Units

Dangerous Dreams (Rx/Palm)

The Hives

Tyrannosaurus Hives (Interscope)

Swallowing Sea Men

The lads in British Sea Power whet U.S. indie-rock palates.

The Strokes

Room on Fire (RCA)

Catch a Wave

New York's Longwave is happy together.

The Evolution Control Committee

Plagiarythm Nation (Evolution Controlled Creations/Seeland)

Let's Clash

Old and new collide to create the next wave of electronica.

This Year's Model

The Yeah Yeah Yeahs get swept up in the rock-is-back movement.

Critic's Choice

Deathray Davies

Discmania

Backbeat writers revisit their favorite albums of the year.

Backwash

The Down-N-Outs call it quits, while Turnsol turns over a new CD.

Backwash

Mr. Pacman scores at a newly opened Monkey Mania.