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Violent Femmes

  • Blogs

    April 28, 2012

    Jules Bethea-Rateliff and Joe Sampson talk about Joe's first official release, Kill Our Friends

    See Also: Best of Denver 2008: Best Singer-Songwriter Since moving to Denver in 2000, Joe Sampson has been a highly visible member of the scene, but it's always been either as member of bands like A Dog Paloma or Bad Weather California, or collaborating on projects like Wentworth-Kersey or playing ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 8, 2012

    Review: The Dirty Femmes at hi-dive, 4/7/12

    THE DIRTY FEMMES @ HI-DIVE Like any relationship, a live band needs to first find common ground with its audience, and then and work from there. This is made extremely easy when you're whole set is duplicating material the audience is already familiar with. The crowd will burst with enthusiasm beca ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 4, 2012

    Kitty Crimes, Maria Kohler's hip-hop alter-ego, is the diverse musician's latest creative endeavor

    Hailing from Detroit -- a city where punk rock, hip hop and blues all grow out of the same soil -- Maria Kohler is giving Denver a taste of her rhymes and her eclecticism. "I think everybody has a pretty wide variety of music that they like," explains Kohler, Kitty Crimes' mastermind, who also front ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 10, 2012

    Ted Stevens of Cursive: "There's a lot of risks you take in making a record like this."

    See also: Interview with Lauren Larson of Ume, sharing the bill this Sunday. Cursive (due this Sunday at Larimer Lounge with Ume) was one of the most popular and influential bands to have come out of the underground scene in Omaha, Nebraska, the same one that spawned Bright Eyes, the Faint, Azure R ... More >>

  • Music

    February 9, 2012

    Bearsnail: full of bare-naked sincerity

    See also: Interview with Lauren Larson of Ume, sharing the bill this Sunday. Cursive (due this Sunday at Larimer Lounge with Ume) was one of the most popular and influential bands to have come out of the underground scene in Omaha, Nebraska, the same one that spawned Bright Eyes, the Faint, Azure R ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 8, 2011

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    April 13, 2011

    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.

  • Blogs

    March 24, 2011

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    October 28, 2010

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    June 20, 2010

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    December 16, 2009

    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 >>

  • Dining

    November 5, 2009

    The Skylark doubles your pleasure with twenty beers

    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 >>

  • Music

    October 1, 2009

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

    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 >>

  • Dining

    May 14, 2009

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

    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 >>

  • Music

    February 19, 2009

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

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    December 22, 2008

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    August 4, 2008

    Delegating Denver #55 of #56: Wisconsin

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    January 18, 2008

    Mile High Makeout: Tasting the Cookie

    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 >>

  • Music

    January 17, 2008

    Wisely

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

  • Film

    August 23, 2007

    Rocket Science

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

  • Music

    August 16, 2007

    Vegas, Baby!

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

  • Music

    June 14, 2007

    Westword Music Showcase 2007

    Saturday, June 16

  • News

    June 23, 2005

    Westword Music Showcase 2005

    Saturday, June 16

  • News

    May 15, 2003

    Letters to the Editor

    From the week of May 15, 2003

  • News

    May 8, 2003

    Letters to the Editor

    From the week of May 8, 2003

  • Music

    February 28, 2002

    Jonathan Richman

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

  • Culture

    December 13, 2001

    Straight Ahead

    Modernism rules in two fine shows at Judish and Andenken.

  • News

    July 26, 2001

    Bleep That

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

  • Film

    July 19, 2001

    Churl Power

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

  • Music

    June 21, 2001

    Back in Orbit

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

  • Music

    February 3, 2000

    Trischka's Treat

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

  • Music

    August 19, 1999

    Local Yokels

    Keep those CDs a-coming.

  • Calendar

    July 15, 1999

    Night & Day

    July 15 - 21, 1999

  • Music

    July 15, 1999

    Long Live the Revolution

    Cubanismo! makes music in high Fidelity.

  • Music

    November 5, 1998

    Orgasm Transplant

    Michael Colin on the current operation of Phantazmorgasm.

  • Music

    April 10, 1997

    Feedback

    Michael Colin on the current operation of Phantazmorgasm.

  • Music

    October 31, 1996

    Heads Down

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

  • Music

    March 14, 1996

    The Unreal World

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

  • Music

    February 22, 1996

    The Look of Lounge

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

  • Music

    March 29, 1995

    SOMEBODY IN PARTICULAR

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

  • Music

    January 18, 1995

    POWERING UP

    16 HORSEPOWER FINALLY GETS THE RECORD CONTRACT IT DESERVES.

  • Music

    September 14, 1994

    JUST SAY AUTONO

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

  • Music

    June 8, 1994

    PLAYLIST

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

  • Music

    June 1, 1994

    PLEASINGLY PLUM

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

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