After an exhaustive 72-month long search in which we literally sacrificed the best years of our young lives combing through and examining reams and reams of articles, spread sheets and op-eds, and wading through countless more hours of supposed expert opinions miring us in endless conjecture on the subject, we…

Hell yeah! It’s finally Friday! Welcome to the weekend! Feel like tossing back a few cold ones and seeing some live music? You’ve come to the right place. There’s an overwhelming number of outstanding shows for you to check out this weekend. We’ve got all of them listed in our…

Rockbar’s liquor license is up for renewal, and yesterday, a hearing officer recommended that it not be renewed. On Monday, a hearing was held, and subsequent to the proceedings, William Hobbs, the officer considering the matter, recommended that the license not be renewed for the popular Colfax bar that Jesse…

In many ways, it’s been a long, hot, tumultuous summer for a lot of people, many of whom are relieved to be making the transition into fall. Mike Marchant is one of the folks who’s happy to put the dog days of summer behind him. With this notion in mind,…

It’s officially fall now, according to the calendar — and, well, the thermometer — but that doesn’t mean things have cooled down here in the Mile High City. While most of the shows have moved indoors, there’s still plenty to choose from, including Rise Against at the Fillmore tonight and…

Cavem Moetavation knows what it’s like to be hungry. Back when he was a boy still known as Michael Walker III, he endured tough times — and he remembers his dad trying to ease the strain of the situation by making him laugh. “I pull this one on my kids…

Speaking of new ways of doing old things, our old pal Alf, the longtime host of KTCL’s Locals Only show, is getting his Big Gig pre-game on this Saturday night by taking a very well worn activity and giving it a new — wait for it — spin. Uh-huh, see…

Note to the grizzled cynic who said that punk’s long since run out of any new ideas: Luke Schmaltz could make you eat those words, hot shot, with a heaping side of shut the hell up. This Sunday, September 16, the members of Schmaltz’s band, King Rat, will be celebrating…

A Shoreline Dream has always been as much about the presentation as the music. Ryan Policky, the band’s creative driving force, puts just as much thought and care into how the music is delivered — from the artwork to the packaging — as he has into crafting the compositions. Here,…

While the great majority of P.O.D.’s contemporaries in the ill-conceived nu-metal/rap-rock movement of the mid- to late ’90s — chagrin-inducing outfits like Limp Bizkit, a skeleton in oh-so-many closets — have become fossilized relics, P.O.D. has outlasted them all. And while it hasn’t thrived, necessarily, the San Diego-based act has…

Your eyes do not deceive you. If you’ve been seeing Yerkish popping up in your Facebook feed, rest easy: It’s not some glitch in the space time continuum. Yerkish has indeed returned, and Lexigram has Lexigone the way of the dodo. According to our pal Tim Kaminski, the whole thing…

Chris Sauthoff has a new lease on life these days. “I’m able to ride my bike and play my music!” he reports. “I love my wife and dogs and students!” Last November, you might recall, the U.S. Pipe/Lord of Word & Disciples of Bass/P-Funk guitarist — better known around here…

The members of the aptly named Nightbringer are from Colorado, a place where the sun allegedly shines 300 days a year. You would never know it, though, from listening to Hierophany of the Open Grave, the act’s excellent third album. Playing an absolutely ferocious brand of black metal that’s every…

If corporate rock of the ’70s and ’80s has a modern contemporary, it’s Rascal Flatts. While, granted, there’s far more twang accompanying this Nashville outfit’s ballads, the group trades in the kind of earnest, rubber-stamped sentimentality that once propelled bands like Toto and Journey on songs like “Without Your Love”…

Five Iron Frenzy was like an eight-year-long supernova that came, burned brightly for a few years and was then extinguished, with one final hurrah at the Fillmore in 2003. While its members splintered off into various factions, with bands that were compelling in their own right (Yellow Second, Nathan &…

Churchill’s show on Saturday, September 29 at the Bluebird is sold out. And while that news in itself is totally worthy of being stoked about (as is the second date that’s just been added on Sunday, September 30), that’s hardly the biggest and best news coming out of that camp…