Win tickets to see KMFDM tonight at Summit

Update: Contest is over. Thanks for all the entries. We’ve picked the winners. Congrats to Jeremy Coss, Dave Shuck and Francine Profitt, who will be seeing the show on us, courtesy of our friends at Soda Jerk. Be sure to follow us on Twitter @Westword_Music and Facebook to get the…

Houses

While it would probably be best to dispense with any sort of wintery metaphors or similes in describing this EP, as they’d be both hackneyed and obvious, they’d also be incredibly apropos. Winter, the fourth and final installment of Houses’ series of seasonally themed releases, is the darkest of the…

Warped Tour Denver 2011: Hair apparent

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 the majority of attendees this year were babies when…

DMX at the Gothic Theatre on September 10

Correction: DMX performs on September 10 at the Gothic. An earlier version of this post had the incorrect date. Fresh out of the clink, DMX is making his way to the Gothic Theatre on Saturday, September 10. After serving most of a year-long parole violation sentence in Yuma, Arizona, the…

Review: A Perfect Circle at Red Rocks, 8/2/11

A PERFECT CIRCLE at RED ROCKS | 8/2/11It seems more than a bit paradoxical that A Perfect Circle’s frontman prefers to perform in background. With Tool, his primary band, and with A Perfect Circle, Maynard James Keenan is an enormous presence. His voice is the driving force of both acts…

Thirtysomething: MTV enters its third decade

Thirty years ago today, music as we know it changed forever. Rather than the television overlords taking their cues from the kids, who in turn took their cues from the radio, MTV programmers skipped the middle man entirely and appointed itself as the arbiters of cool, the pied pipers of…

Paper Diamond added to Outside Lands

Paper Diamond’s stock just rose significantly. The Boulder-based act led by Alex B. (aka Alex Botwin) of Pnuma Trio and Elm and Oak, has been added to the Outside Lands festival happening a few weekends from now in San Francisco. Have you seen the lineup? He’ll be in some pretty…