Toby Keith

The ten best places to sing karaoke in Denver

While there are a countless number of places to do karaoke around town, we've singled out the ten best spots in town to indulge your inner song bird. Some of these places cater to singers every night of the week, while others only do karaoke on specific nights. Some of these spots made the list last ... More >>

Ten songs Rockies first baseman Todd Helton could use for his walk-on music this season

Pitchers and catchers reported this week. You know what that means, right? Yeah, probably nothing. We're not going to get our hopes up here. I mean, aside from our new skipper, Walt Weiss, a beloved former Rockies shortstop, there's really no reason to believe this season will be any less agonizing ... More >>

The weekend's best live music: Ghostland Observatory, STS9, Warped Tour and more

Welcome to the weekend! Another diverse lineup of musical goodness awaits you. Tonight at Red Rocks, Ghostland Observatory and MiM0SA kick off two nights of electronic goodness that will culminate with a show featuring STS9 tomorrow night. And there's a full slate of rock on tap as well, including M ... More >>

Camping cookbook author Patty Ruwoldt on outdoor cuisine (recipe for chicken stew included)

With Memorial Day comes the start of camping season, and here's a new tool to put in your pack: Patty Ruwoldt's Open Range Cook'n: Home on the Range Cooking Made Easy -- A Camp Cook's Guide to Tasty Vittles. Not only does the book include recipes for satisfying meals you can cook in the great outdoo ... More >>

Shooter Jennings on making the most country album of his career, Family Man, in New York

It's a bit ironic that Shooter Jennings (due at Toby Keith's I Love This Bar & Grill on Friday, May 4), the son of country singers Waylon Jennings and Jessi Colter, would make what he calls his "most country record to date" in New York. But that's essentially what happened. Shortly after moving to N ... More >>

Denver's ten best jukeboxes

Just as music collections say a lot about people, a jukebox can do the same for a bar; it often reflect the place's personality. A lot of times, variety is key to a well-stocked jukebox, and 3 Kings Tavern, this year's winner in the Best of Denver, had that with balls, to boot. Here's a look at the ... More >>

Weekend's best live bets: Lucero, Flipper, the Ting Tings, Say Anything, Jewel and more

Ah, yes, welcome to the weekend! Don't you just love living in the Mile High City? Besides the glorious weather we're enjoying right now, we have yet another weekend filled with a ridiculous number of enticing options: Lucero kicks off its two-night stand at the Bluebird, in addition to an in-store ... More >>

Toby Keith at Comfort Dental Amphitheatre on June 15 with Brantley Gilbert. Tix on sale 3/3.

Get your red solo cup ready: We've just received word that Toby Keith is bringing his party to Comfort Dental Amphitheatre on Friday, June 15. Tickets for the show, which also features Brantley Gilbert, go on sale next Saturday, March 3 at 10 a.m. at the Comfort Dental box office or at LiveNation.co ... More >>

Black Keys: "Rock & Roll is dying because of Nickelback"

Despite the pointed assertion of Black Keys drummer Patrick Carney that rock music is dying because of Nickelback, the genre still appears to be selling quite well. Granted, not quite as well as hip-hop or pop, but it's still kicking. In a recent Rolling Stone cover story, Carney is quoted as sayin ... More >>

Toby Keith in town for his bar's grand opening

​Country superstar Toby Keith says he used to play in Colorado quite a bit, including five-night stints at the Grizzly Rose, and so it made sense to open his ninth and largest Toby Keith's I Love This Bar & Grill in Denver. Keith stopped by his 22,000 square-foot Northfield Stapleton spot on t ... More >>

Toby Keith talks fried baloney at his bar's grand opening

Jon Solomon​Toby Keith's favorite thing on the menu of the chain of restaurants named after his hit song? The fried baloney sandwich. While in town yesterday for the official grand opening of Northfield Stapleton's Toby Keith's I Love This Bar & Grill, the ninth and largest of the locations th ... More >>

Blow your mind at Mind Benders

Bars/Clubs: November's openings and closings

Rock-A-Billies opened November 24​There were a few changes in the Denver bar and club scene last month, including the opening of Toby Keith's I Love This Bar & Grill, the Rockstar Lounge and Rock-A-Billies. Read on for our bars and clubs roll call for November:

Restaurant roll call for November

Ototo Food and Wine started pouring November 26.​There were many changes in the Denver dining scene last month, with two homegrown chains adding outlets, a couple of national chains entering the market -- and some definite one-of-a-kind restaurants opening. Read on for our Restaurant roll ca ... More >>

Toby Keith's I Love This Bar & Grill now open

​After several delays, Toby Keith's I Love This Bar & Grill has finally opened in Northfield/Stapleton. The massive 22,000-square-foot bar/restaurant, named after Keith's hit country single "I Love This Bar," is headed by Charly Barnett, who was general manager at the Grizzly Rose for thirteen ... More >>

I Love This Bar Bingo, anyone?

Jay Vollmar​ Alas, the agonizing wait is over: This weekend at Northfield, I Love This Bar & Grill -- Toby Keith's, well, bar and grill -- is celebrating its grand opening. Near as we can tell, there's only four of these bad boys in the world, and somehow we got one. Yay us! We haven't made i ... More >>

Is Toby Keith's I Love This Bar finally open? Bingo!

​After numerous delays, Toby Keith's I Love This Bar & Grill finally opened this week. But before you scoot your boots over to the Shops at Northfield Stapleton to check out this giant country club, print out a copy of this I Love This Bar bingo game (courtesy of our Backbeat blog). We see ... More >>

Toby Keith's I Love This Bar & Grill is open for business, y'all

Toby Keith's I Love This Bar & Grill hopes to open Tuesday

Kyle GarrattToby Kieth's I Love This Bar & Grill set to open next Tuesday​For those of you sick of French Fries and more in the mood for Toby Keith's Freedom Fries, help is on the way. Toby Keith's I Love This Bar & Grill, 8260 Northfield Boulevard, is holding its soft opening on Tuesday, Nove ... More >>

Ogling opportunities abound at clubs on Halloween

Shops -- and restaurants -- at Northfield finally get a break

La Sandia's Mexican Cobb salad​On a Labor Day detour from DIA, we spent a few hours wandering around the Shops at Northfield -- with time out for the Mexican Cobb salad at La Sandia, Richard Sandoval's restaurant there, one of several eateries in the development that could use more traffic. ... More >>

MiniBar has plans that begin with coffee and end with a club

Hoo boy! Toby Keith's I Love This Bar & Grill is bringing its country kitsch to the suburbs of Stapleton

​Spit-shine your cowboy boots and dig out your hats, y'all! In just two months, Toby Keith's I Love This Bar & Grill is putting its shit-kickin' foot stomp on a 20,000-square-foot plot of land at Northfield Stapleton. According to Paul Sewell, the chain's corporate marketing director, the m ... More >>

Rockaway Tavern

Tool, Limp Bizkit, American Idol Live! shows announced

​Nearly a year after Tool's triumphant headlining set at the Mile High Music Festival, Maynard James Keenan and company return to the area for a two-night stand at Red Rocks Amphitheatre on Monday and Tuesday, June 28 and 29. Reserved tickets are $52.50 to $69.50 and go on sale Saturday, May 1 ... More >>

This Just In: Country Megaticket, Disco Biscuits, Phoenix shows announced

​In addition to a number of shows announced this week, Live Nation is offering the 2010 Country Megaticket, which includes four shows at the Comfort Dental Amphitheatre including, the Country Throwdown featuring Montgomery Gentry, Little Big Town and more on Sunday, June 13, Tim McGraw with Lady A ... More >>

Live Nation offers two-for-one ticket special tomorrow

On Wednesday, July 22, Live Nation is offering buy one, get one free lawn tickets for Fiddler's Green Amphitheatre shows including Creed, Crue Fest II, Def Leppard with Cheap Trick and Poison, Toby Keith with Trace Adkins, Brad Paisley with Dierks Bentley and Jimmy Wayne, and Rod Stewart. The two-fo ... More >>

Green Day, Journey, Crosby, Stills & Nash shows announced

As previously reported, Green Day will play its first gig in these parts in over three years when the band hits the Pepsi Center on Saturday, August 15. Tickets for that show go on sale Saturday, May 9. Some other big ticket shows, meanwhile, were announced this week, including a trio of shows at Re ... More >>

Sanity Claus

Separating holiday-music gifts from seasonal disorders.

Gogol Bordello's Acid-Spiked Vodka and Other Assorted Goodies

Red, White and You?

How American are you? Take this quiz and find out.

What a Country!

Ten reasons to tune in country radio in 2006.

Tavern Downtown

The whole Real World's watching.

Hank III

Thursday, June 22, Ogden Theatre, 1-866-468-7621.

Letters to the Editor

From the week of April 20, 2006

Toby Keith

White Trash With Money (Show Dog Nashville/Universal)

Ike Reilly

Tuesday, January 31, Larimer Lounge, 303-291-1007.

Death Pool for Cutie

Check the Vegas odds: It's time to predict this year's rock-star deaths.

Down-Home Delights

Ten of the best from Nashville and elsewhere.

Giving Back

Out of the ashes of 9/11 comes a reason to celebrate again at Fashion Forward.

Hit Pick

Halden Wofford and the Hi-Beams

The Message

Ticket Not to Ride

For the Record

For national releases, 2003 wonked as much as it rocked.

Darryl Worley

Have You Forgotten?(Dreamworks)

War on War Songs

Iraq and roll don't go together well when rockers protest

Jorma Kaukonen

Blue Country Heart (Columbia)

Fair Time

The Colorado State Fair salutes hometown virtues.

Don Walser

Rolling Stone From Texas and Texas Top Hand (Texas Music Group)

Various Artists

Timeless (Lost Highway)

DIAL "M" FOR MEDIOCRE

WE'VE JUST LISTENED TO EVERY RADIO STATION IN DENVER--AND BOY, DO OUR EARS HURT.