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Photos: The people of Warped Tour 2012

The Vans Warped Tour made its stop in Denver on Sunday, June 17, 2012 at Sports Authority Field at Mile High. Aaron Thackeray brings back these photos for Westword. See also: - People of Warped Tour 2012 - People of Warped Tour 2011 - Day in the Life: Andrew W.K.'s Denver Warped Tour - Yelawolf: A ... More >>

Prime Element hits the road with Sweatshop Union and then joins Vans Warped Tour

Prime Element is hitting the road this week, bringing its classic Colorado hip-hop style to the rest of the country. This Friday, the group joins Sweatshop Union for several dates as it kicks off its summer tour in Boise, Idaho, and then throughout the rest of the summer, beginning with the upcoming ... More >>

Be the Ant

Singles
Self-released

Roll 'Em In Boulder

Top five flicks at the 2012 Boulder International Film Festival

The Boulder International Film Festival kicks off Thursday night with Darling Companion at the Boulder Theater, and continues through Sunday with fifty diverse films as well as celebrity appearances, workshops, and ways to get involved in social causes. Below, festival director Kathy Beeck shares ... More >>

Andrew W.K. in Denver at Bluebird on 3/20

Grab your party shoes, kids. Andrew W.K. is coming back to Denver. In honor of the ten year anniversary of I Get Wet (hands up if you can believe it's already been a decade since dude first hit the scene), Mr. Party Hard is bringing his party to the Bluebird Theater on Tuesday, March 20. Brace yours ... More >>

Review: Against Me! at the Warped Tour, 8/5/11

Against Me! at the Denver stop of the Vans Warped Tour​AGAINST ME! at WARPED TOUR | 8/5/11Without delving into the history of the Vans Warped tour, it can be argued that a lot about it has changed. What started as a tour meant to showcase punk-rock rebellion, has now become a major cog in the ... More >>

Warped Tour Denver 2011: Hair apparent

All photos by Aaron Thackeray​Since launching in 1994, much has changed about the Warped Tour. For everything that's different about the annual traveling punk rock caravan now, some things such as the hairdos have, for the most part, stayed refreshingly the same -- surprising considering that ... More >>

This Weekend in Stoke: Top five workouts for this weekend's warriors

​Make it rain! Crankworx Colorado continues today at Winter Park with the Rainmaker Air Downhill Slopestyle qualifiers starting at 12:15 p.m. (finals start on Saturday at 1 p.m.). The weekend is also full of spectator-friendly XC and downhill mountain bike races. Better still: Most of the Tres ... More >>

Andrew W.K.'s photo diary of his Denver Warped Tour date

Aaron ThackerayAndrew W.K. on stage on Sunday in Denver during his Warped Tour set.​ As Warped Tour winds down for another summer, Aaron Thackeray shadowed the hardest partier on the tour, Andrew W.K., capturing his average day. Below are a few highlights -- check out the full gallery of AWK' ... More >>

Man vs. Festival: Five tips for staying alive through Warped Tour

​Earlier this week, a Wichita man died at the Vans Warped Tour in Bonner Springs, Kansas. Although the cause of his death has yet to be determined, it's a safe bet that prolonged heat exposure might have had something to do it (temperatures reportedly climbed over a hundred degrees that day). ... More >>

Shira Girl's namesake on friends she made crashing the Warped Tour and being a role model for your young women

Acting on impulse is a great way to succeed. Shira is an answers-first-figure-out-the-questions-later type of lady who know this all too well. Some years ago, she and her band decided they wanted to play The Warped Tour. Rather than sitting around waiting for an acceptance letter, ShiraGirl brazen ... More >>

The Dillinger Escape Plan

Sunday, August 8, Invesco Field, 303-830-8497.

Alkaline Trio

Sunday, August 8, Invesco Field, 303-830-8497.

Speakeasy Tiger checks in from the Warped Tour

Remember the whole Speakeasy Tiger saga this past May, when the act parted ways with Kyle Simmons? What are we saying? Of course you remember. You're still commenting on that blog. Well, it not only did the outfit name a new lead singer, Katrina Stone (see photo after the jump), but they were road ... More >>

P.O.S. mates punk and hip-hop with aplomb

Single File getting silly on the Warped tour

From the looks of the video above, we gather that the Single File dudes have found plenty of ways to entertain themselves on the Warped Tour this year, from doing swell bracelet tricks to rapping about the virtues of flipping burgers versus flipping copies at Kinkos. (?) Bassist Joe Ginsberg -- wh ... More >>

The Westword.com blog shortcut, August 21 edition

Roll out the barrel....​The line starts here. Today in Cafe Society: • Mountains of food and wine this weekend at the Mesa Verde Country Food, Wine and Art Festival. • Cherry Creek North Food and Wine Festival takes over Fillmore Plaza. • Mysteries of Sheehan's Desk: Day 8. • Andrews ... More >>

Over the Weekend: Warped Tour at Invesco Field at Mile High

Breathe Carolina​ Warped Tour Invesco Field at Mile High August 9, 2009 Fifteen years down the line, the Warped Tour, which took over the asphalt surrounding Invesco Field on Sunday, has a well-established formula: lots of bands (around seventy in Denver), most of them falling into the pop-pu ... More >>

Q&A with Jared Piccone of Innerpartysystem

​Innerpartysystem knows all about the DIY approach. Since their formation, the members have spent countless hours dissecting technology, transforming it to suit their needs. Their light show, for instance, aside from a few stock lasers, was all hand built. Any fan that has seen the act more than o ... More >>

MP3 Freeloader: Regret Night, Sunday at the Warped Tour

​Warped Tour is here. It's so close that we're seeing traveling local artists tweet their hometown whereabouts and even popping their heads in quietly to their favorite wind-down spots for some much needed rest. It is, after all, one of the most relentless tours out there with little to no downtim ... More >>

Q&A with Brandon Whalen of My Body Sings Electric

CSI​While the Warped Tour has grown up and is now it's fifteenth summer, most of the bands and fans are as young as ever. Unlike most of the poorly selling dinosaur exhibits posing as rock concerts traipsing across the country these days, the Warped Tour year after year gets more and more popular. ... More >>

Epilogues win a slot on Warped Tour this weekend

Photo by Andy Mellen​Congratulations are due to the fine young men of the Epilogues. For the second year in a row, the band is one of the winners of the Ernie Ball battle of the bands, earning them a coveted slot on that stage for this Sunday's Warped Tour date at Invesco. The time slot has y ... More >>

Q&A with Kyle Evans of Breathe Carolina

Those Breathe Carolina boys sure are colorful. It started out as a simple phone interview for a feature commemorating Breathe Carolina's participation in this year's Warped Tour, which rolls into Invesco Field at Mile High on Sunday, August 9. But it turned into something considerably more unexpect ... More >>

Kid Cudi remixes 3OH!3

3OH!3 has officially achieved ubiquity. The duo performed live yesterday on MTV's It's On with Alexa Chung. The guys are featured among people.com's hottest bachelors. Oh, and in actual music news, "Don't Trust Me" has reached the number five spot on Billboard's top 40 chart. As the B ... More >>

Glyphic

Everything Eventual
Self-released

Q&A with Hayley Williams of Paramore

Photo by Ryan RussellParamore. Hayley Williams, the frontwoman for Paramore, which opens for No Doubt on Wednesday, May 27, at Fiddler's Green, is already a star, but few thinks her career trajectory has peaked. Based on the platinum sales of Riot!, the group's last album, and a successful tie-in w ... More >>

BrokenCYDE gets the gasface

I'm a little stunned by the controversy surrounding ridiculous screamo-hip-hop also-rans, BrokenCYDE. If you haven't heard, earlier this week, a post on Loud Hawk Press called for the removal of the band from this summer's Warped Tour, on the basis of two offenses: 1) they suck, and 2) the ... More >>

Animo is no more

Photo by Kiley SheppardJust received confirmation of a rumor that we heard late last week, that the members of Animo have indeed parted ways. Bassist Donovan Welsh says while there's various reasons for the split, ultimately, the band had just run its course. The years of toiling away took its toll ... More >>

The meaty men of Animo wear a condom every time

Westword.com blog shortcut, September 18 edition

Valient Thorr

Saturday, September 6, Fillmore Auditorium, 303-830-8497.

Animo: Lady Killing It On This Year's Warped Tour

Denver Warped Tour After Party

Q&A With Ryland Blackinton of Cobra Starship

Paramore

Sunday, November 4, Fillmore Auditorium, 303-830-8497.

Q&A With DJ Wilson of Scary Kids Scaring Kids

Rush

Wednesday, August 8, Red Rocks Amphitheatre, Morrison, 303-830-8497.

A Warped Perspective

Local bands were the main attraction at this year’s Warped Tour.

The Fame Game

Hard work and ambition landed Dork in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

Greeley Estates

Wednesday, February 7, Black Sheep, Colorado Springs, 1-866-468-7621.

Bouncing Souls

Saturday, November 25, and Sunday, November 26, Gothic Theatre, Englewood, 1-866-468-7621.

Steel Train

Friday, November 11, Trilogy Lounge, Boulder, 303-473-9463.

The Beatdown

Sometimes it pays to be a D.O.R.K.

Letter Kills

Thursday, February 24, Larimer Lounge, 303-291-1007.

Flogging Molly

Wednesday, October 13, Fillmore Auditorium, 303-837-0360.

The Casualties

On the Front Line (Side One Dummy)

Critic's Choice

Atmosphere

Backwash

Sid Pink makes the audience see red as Westword Music Showcase Awards winners are announced.

Critic's Choice

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