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.Pop music often gets a bad rap for being disposable or vapid, and in many cases that’s true. (Katy Perry, Danity…
In a year worthy of your rage, metal delivered in spades. What with the economy circling the drain and Sarah Palin coming down from the tundra and then refusing to go back, 2008’s been the kind of year that really makes you want to smash your head into walls or…
That’s all for us. We’ll take tomorrow to silently lament our families’ sub-par gift-giving efforts (or, in the case of our Jewish colleagues, to mob on some Kung Pow Chicken). We’ll be back in sort-of-full-force on Monday. — Joe Tone…
New Year’s Eve is almost upon us, which means it’s time for you and all your friends to argue endlessly about what to do, building the night up so much that it can only turn into a major letdown. But! It doesn’t have to be that way. Here, 10 events…
It will be time to start looking forward soon, but first we’ll take one last look back at all the looking back we’ve been doing, with a roundup of our year-end coverage. It was a strange and wonderful and absolutely dogshit year. Let’s relive it…
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. It’s time to rank the best of what went around and came around again. BILLY JOEL The Stranger (Columbia/Legacy) As…
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. Picking the best folk and Americana records of the year isn’t nearly as hard as discarding those great records that…
Ten Denver sports moments we’ll remember (sometimes against our wishes) from 2008.10. The Birdman flies back into DenverReserve center and reformed party addict Chris “The Birdman” Anderson re-joined the Nuggets this year after a two-year suspension for an unspecified violation (cocaine). He’s not the second coming of Shaq — he’s…
All day long, we be bloggin’: On the Backbeat blog:Rather than sitting by idly, Denver artists take action 3OH!3 really crosses over…Top Ten Dance Collections of 2008, Both Mixed and UnmixedBeyond Playlist presents Xmas-rated, part four: Variety Packs On the Cafe Society blog: New digs in the new year for…
Hey poor bastards! Bad economy got you down? Sitting there in your shanty-town hovel thinking about which of your kids you can pawn off next just to stay afloat? Stop thinking so hard. The answer is Timmy. That little talentless rube is a financial black hole. But if you love…
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…
The St. Pauli Girl’s beer-pong exploits ranked among westword.com’s best-read stories in 2008. But what was No. 1? The new year is almost here. But before you look forward, you have to look back, to assess where you’ve been, and to make sure you didn’t drop any bras or underwear…
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. Hip-hop A-listers including Rick Ross, Akon and Plies were caught grossly exaggerating their gangster credentials this year. (Turns out they…
It will happen tonight, no doubt: At some point during the Nuggets-Cavs game at the Pepsi Center, probably late in the first quarter, LeBron James will step into a passing lane. He’ll lurk, and lurk, and lurk, carefully measuring his distance from things — close enough to make the steal,…
The Mile High Music fest drew a lot of interest from local music fans in ’08. This blog churned out more than 1,400 posts in 2008, about life, death, plastic surgery, and even some music. Here, in case you just joined us or are really taking stock of your year,…
A daily roundup of stuff maybe worth reading about Denver. Send tips. A basketball book with the word “macrophenomenal” in the title. No, it’s not by Charles Barkley. (Denver Stiffs) The good, the bad, and the unknown about Ken Salazar. With hats like that, the ugly goes without saying. (5280)…
Over the next few weeks, Backbeat will feature some Top Ten lists from around the Village Voice Media chain. Today, our own Michael Roberts runs down his favorite indie albums of 2008. In 2008, independent rock returned to the underground, where it belongs. Given the grand catastrophe that is today’s…
Bloggers: Send blog-able blogs to joe.tone@westword.com. With Salazar’s departure, Republicans (including AG John Suthers, pictured) are apparently salivating. Yeah, we think it’s gross, too. (Colorado Independent) Guys fighting CU gun ban are not “just a bunch of drunks who are going to shoot each other.” Which is too bad, because…
In this week’s Westword, Backbeat’s trusty music scribes break down their favorite local albums of 2008, from Abracastabya to Yerkish. Check out their picks at westword.com/music, and check back all week for more of our favorite albums and songs of 2008. And don’t forget to tune into to 101.5 FM…
The more we read local blogs, the more we want to start wearing giant hats. Send your worthy reads to joe.tone@westword.com.What happens if Mr. Salazar goes to Washington? (Colorado Pols)Colorado Republicans: The only debt-free group in America. (Colorado Independent)A typically unabashed Broncos homer is rooting for the Chargers this weekend…
We’ve been scarfing down hot links all day. Here are a few of the most tasty. Send yours to joe.tone@westword.com.Yes. Right. What you need at one of the country’s biggest party schools are lots of concealed weapons. (Face the State)Starting today, there’s one fewer reporter covering the Capitol. (Colorado Independent)Dead…
