Violent Femmes

Mile High Makeout: Tasting the Cookie

Delegating Denver #55 of #56: Wisconsin

Night & Day

July 15 - 21, 1999

Long Live the Revolution

Cubanismo! makes music in high Fidelity.

Top Ten Dance Collections of 2008, Both Mixed and Unmixed

Over the next couple of weeks, Backbeat will feature some Top Ten lists from around the Village Voice Media chain. Click here for previous year-in-review coverage from Backbeat and VVM. Any knucklehead with DSL and a laptop can now make an electronic track. With a half hour of clicking and fiddlin ... More >>

Letters to the Editor

From the week of May 8, 2003

Letters to the Editor

From the week of May 15, 2003

Wisely

Sunday, January 20, hi-dive, 720-570-4500.

Smokin' the (karaoke) competition at Smokin' Joe's

Sunday, January 20, hi-dive, 720-570-4500.

Vegas, Baby!

Meet Danny Vegas, the Sin City showman the Killers love.

Back in Orbit

The AUTONO's Chuck Snow launches the Lazy Spacemen -- and gives the music business another go.

Rocket Science

Is this high school coming-of-ager quirky for good or evil? The answer’s...debatable.

Westword Music Showcase 2007

Saturday, June 16

Westword Music Showcase 2005

Saturday, June 16

Jonathan Richman

Her Mystery Not of High Heels and Eye Shadow (Vapor)

Straight Ahead

Modernism rules in two fine shows at Judish and Andenken.

Bleep That

The FCC's fining of a Colorado radio station is giving broadcasters headaches from coast to coast.

Churl Power

For better or for worse, Lost and Delirious lives up to its name.

Trischka's Treat

The banjo champion makes music that's finger-pickin' good.

Local Yokels

Keep those CDs a-coming.

Orgasm Transplant

Michael Colin on the current operation of Phantazmorgasm.

Feedback

Michael Colin on the current operation of Phantazmorgasm.

Heads Down

The Heads' Jerry Harrison on the controversial decision to carry on without David Byrne.

The Unreal World

Rebecca Blasband, veteran of The Real World, is getting on with her real life.

The Look of Lounge

Rebecca Blasband, veteran of The Real World, is getting on with her real life.

SOMEBODY IN PARTICULAR

A BEHIND-THE-CURTAINS LOOK AT THE BIGGEST LITTLE PROMOTER IN DENVER.

POWERING UP

16 HORSEPOWER FINALLY GETS THE RECORD CONTRACT IT DESERVES.

JUST SAY AUTONO

THE BEST LITTLE BAND IN COLORADO SPRINGS KEEPS COMING BACK FOR MORE.

PLAYLIST

THE BEST LITTLE BAND IN COLORADO SPRINGS KEEPS COMING BACK FOR MORE.

PLEASINGLY PLUM

THE BEST LITTLE BAND IN COLORADO SPRINGS KEEPS COMING BACK FOR MORE.

The "gastropub" label aside, Jonesy's EatBar is great

THE BEST LITTLE BAND IN COLORADO SPRINGS KEEPS COMING BACK FOR MORE.

"Add It Up" and Get Your Irish Up at Scruffy Murphy's

THE BEST LITTLE BAND IN COLORADO SPRINGS KEEPS COMING BACK FOR MORE.

The Skylark doubles your pleasure with twenty beers

THE BEST LITTLE BAND IN COLORADO SPRINGS KEEPS COMING BACK FOR MORE.

Top Ten Cover Songs of the Decade

Arcade Fire goes undercover.​There have been billions of songs written in the last decade but sometimes it's not the new ones that matter, it's the reimaginings. Some people argue a great cover song is decided by it's accuracy to the original, others want something new to be brought into the m ... More >>

Westword Music Showcase sells out with 11,000 in attendance! Biggest turnout ever!

Sold out? Wait, what? Did I just read that right? Seriously? Sold out? What the ...? Those were my first thoughts when I woke up yesterday and fired up the old TweetDeck before jumping into the shower. My boy Ralphie, who we tapped to emcee the main stage for us yesterday, had tweeted something ... More >>

Dean Ween on fundamental changes to the recording industry and pot-smoking hippies

​ For nearly thirty years, Mickey Melchiondo's been making music under a moniker. As Dean Ween, one of the eponymous creative forces behind Ween, Melchiondo's carved out an ambitious musical niche since founding the band with Aaron Freeman - aka Gene Ween - in the 1980s. In advance of Ween's ... More >>

Ten Songs about masturbation

​Hanging the Hamster. The Five Digit Disco. Jerking the Johnson. There's a million terms for the ingratiating act of self-love. Look, if we're being real here, there's no shame in the game. After all, not everyone can be pleasured by super-fantastic lovers all day, everyday, and sometimes this ... More >>

2011 Westword Music Showcase Ballot

​Seventeen years! It's hard to believe we've been doing the Westword Music Showcase for that long. I can still remember being at the first one in LoDo nearly two decades ago. And when I think back, it seems like that cold, rainy Sunday night was just a few years ago.

Tonight: Langhorne Slim at the Fox

​Langhorne Slim (playing tonight at the Fox Theatre in Boulder with Samantha Crain and Jonah Wisneski) could easily fit under the folk or alt-country label, but the Pennsylvania native is truly a gospel singer by nature. Slim's vocals nod to Dylan, too, but it is the soulful reverie in his voi ... More >>

Bearsnail: full of bare-naked sincerity

​Langhorne Slim (playing tonight at the Fox Theatre in Boulder with Samantha Crain and Jonah Wisneski) could easily fit under the folk or alt-country label, but the Pennsylvania native is truly a gospel singer by nature. Slim's vocals nod to Dylan, too, but it is the soulful reverie in his voi ... More >>