The twelve types of Denver musicians

In honor of our annual Westword Music Showcase this weekend, we tapped Backbeat’s resident genius, cartoonist Noah Van Sciver, to consult the vast empirical recesses of his memory banks to assemble this helpful taxonomy. Prepare to be enlightened, astounded and perhaps, if you’re a little sensitive, even a little miffed…

Club Scout: Electrobot Thursdays at The Church

Each and every Thursday, DJ Tower (aka Tim Alexander) and his friends turn The Church into a haven for electro and retro music for Electrobot Thursdays. DJ Tower has been cultivating the night for quite some time and has been working with other like-minded electronic minds like boyhollow (aka Michael…

Party down with these headliners at the Westword Music Showcase

Game time! Are you ready for the hottest party of the summer? We are! Of course, we’ve been planning, laboring and looking forward to the 2012 Westword Music Showcase since the final strains of Chromeo’s set faded last year. Maybe you have, too. If so, well, let’s just say your…

Our complete guide to the June 23 Westword Music Showcase

Welcome to the eighteenth annual Westword Music Showcase! Our baby is finally old enough to vote and buy cigarettes and porn — though who really buys that anymore? How things have changed since the Showcase was born way back in 1995. Bill Clinton was in his first term as president,…

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…

Saturday nights at Milk Bar are all about the goth

Some of the stereotypes are true: Pretty much everyone is in all black, many are wearing dark and heavy eye make-up and every now and then, the DJ stops a tune with a vertebrae-shattering guitar riff for chants of, “Kill! Kill! Kill!” But it’s not some cartoon-like parody like you…

Review: Ministry at Ogden Theatre, 6/17/12

MINISTRY @ OGDEN THEATRE | 6.17.12 When the ominous chorus of “Psalm 69” rang out during the first song of Ministry’s encore, everyone cheered louder than they had the rest of the night. The chilling music, the sort of thing you’d expect to hear in a movie about a misguided…

Cream Fridays Re-Loaded kicks off tonight at La Rumba

After an eight-year run at La Rumba, Lipgloss, one of the city’s longest running dance nights, just moved to to Beauty Bar. But before Lipgloss moved into La Rumba, the spot was home to Oxygen, which was awarded the Best Gay Bar for Gay Men in 2003 in Westword’s Best…