The parking lot is a perfect place to mingle and get your pre-game on before a show, particularly at Red Rocks. But Brandon Chavez is taking tailgaiting to another level. At select EDM shows, you can find Chavez, aka DJ Rufio, and his crew of party people gathered around a red truck in the lower south lot getting down.

"I just thought it would be cool to come out early and get a nice little party going before going into the show," says Chavez. "So I made sure to be one of the first people at the lot. I was one of the first people parked in the lot and just brought my turntables and a speaker."

See also:
- The story behind the ever popular, award-winning Whomp Truck
- Best of Denver 2011: Best Monthly Party - Whomp Truck
- Slideshow: Whomp Truck on Santa Fe, 8/3/12

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All photos by Brandon Marshall

To see a ton more photos from the evening, check out the full Anthrax, Exodus, High on Fire and Municipal Waste slide show.

The Metal Alliance Tour featuring Anthrax, Exodus, High on Fire, Municipal Waste and Holy Grail made its way to Denver on Tuesday night. A crushing throng of maniacal metal fans -- our resident metalhead Brandon Marshall among them -- gathered at Summit Music Hall last night, where, united by their shared love of the genre, they all raised their horns to the sky. Here are the fifteen most maniacal metal fans from the show.

See also:
- Slideshow: Anthrax, Exodus, High on Fire and Municipal Waste at the Summit
- Tom Hunting of Exodus on how building a song is like building the best sandwich
- Joey Belladonna of Anthrax on Married...With Children and rejoining the band

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Getcha, getcha, getcha, getcha, getcha freak on! We all know that there are lots of ways to become immortalized at a massive outdoor music gathering like Ultra Music Festival, such as, oh, I don't know, humping a tree, or maybe dancing naked while getting arrested. But Mom would probably prefer if you lived forever, like these folks. Continue on for ten more awesome GIFs from this year's Ultra Music Festival.

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- The 13 Ultra Music Fest GIFs that keep on giving
- The ladies of Ultra Music Festival 2013
- The gentlemen of Ultra Music Festival 2013

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Photo by George Martinez

There's something so liberating about going to an event like Ultra Music Festival. Although the looks change every year, there is a lax unity, an agreement, that you can get away with wearing whatever you want. Even so, there are things that uniformly trended this year at Ultra. Continue on for the top fashion statements of Ultra 2013.

See also:
- The 13 Ultra Music Fest GIFs that keep on giving
- The fashionistas of Ultra Music Festival 2013
- The ten best inflatable animals, blow-up dolls and other party props

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Photo by Jacob Katel

Welcome to Ravetopia.

Society got the best of ya? Go to Ultra Music Festival, where you can leave the normal world behind, where you can feel free to get half naked, customize your brain and put some neon in your life. Deep inside the endless well of bass, you just might find yourself. Here are thirteen hardcore ravers who will teach you the ways of Ravetopia, in animated GIF.

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- The ladies of Ultra Music Festival 2013
- The gentlemen of Ultra Music Festival 2013
- The fashionistas of Ultra Music Festival 2013

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This past weekend at Ultra Music Festival in Miami, there were some folks that were better dressed, and others more sensibly garbed, but the following fashionistas spotted during night one of this year's three-day shit fest were the ones that stood out to us the most. These bass junkies in tutus, dead starfish, Pokémon body suits and Halloween costumes offered words of fashion advice and reflection.

See also:
- Have you seen Molly? She's been everywhere lately
- Photos: Ultra Music Festival 2013 - Weekend One, Day One
- Photos: Ultra Music Festival 2013 - Weekend One, Day Two

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By Kat Bein

Damn, Ultra Music Festival is a mad house. Everywhere you look, it's neon titties, the bottom half of asses or some kind of sexy rabbit hoppin' around with a lollipop in her cheek. Only a special kind of woman can brave the downtown Miami masses for three days, and maybe even six. It takes guts, chutzpah, but not a whole lot of clothing. Here are some of the ladies spotted at this year's Ultra Music Festival in Miami.

See also:
- Have you seen Molly? She's been everywhere lately
- Photos: Ultra Music Festival 2013 - Weekend One, Day One
- Photos: Ultra Music Festival 2013 - Weekend One, Day Two

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Photo by George Martinez

By Victor Gonzalez

Gay, straight, bi or simply rolling face, if you're a man with abs like Jesus and just enough fabric to cover your genitals, there was nothing wrong with showing off your manhood in Miami this past weekend. It's Ultra Music Festival, baby! And the Gym, Tan, Molly fraternal order of male ravers are loud, proud and hanging 'round in their Diesel underpants, Umbro soccer shorts and furry boots. Here are the top ten nearly naked raver bros spotted at Ultra 2013.

See also:
- Have you seen Molly? She's been everywhere lately
- Photos: Ultra Music Festival 2013 - Weekend One, Day One
- Photos: Ultra Music Festival 2013 - Weekend One, Day Two

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All photos by Brandon Marshall

See many more photos in the full SnowBall Music Festival: Day 1 slideshow.

Well, another edition of the SnowBall Music Festival is on the books. If you went, hopefully you raged all weekend. If you didn't go, well, you're probably wishing you did. Either way, relive the best moments from the festival through the lens of Brandon Marshall, who braved the elements and brought us back all these photos.

See also:
- The SnowBall Music Festival 2013 survival guide
- SnowBall Music Festival's organizers on how it came together and what inspired it
- Photos: Snowball 2012 slideshow

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Pitchers and catchers reported this week. You know what that means, right? Yeah, probably nothing. We're not going to get our hopes up here. I mean, aside from our new skipper, Walt Weiss, a beloved former Rockies shortstop, there's really no reason to believe this season will be any less agonizing than last year. Who knows, though? Maybe Weiss and company will actually give us something to cheer for. We'll see. Time will tell.

In the meantime, let's occupy ourselves with more pressing matters, shall we, like, say, figuring out what the walk-on music for a certain recently-arrested first baseman should be this year. Given Todd Helton's noted proclivity for country music -- last season, his song was "Springsteen" by Eric Church, and the year before that, it was the now ironic "My Kinda Party" by Jason Aldean with the line, "Well if you wanna drink/Go on baby, just do your thing/But give up your keys" -- whatever tune he picks, you can bet it will have some twang. Keep reading for our suggestions.

See also:
- Why did Troy Tulowitzki pick Miley Cyrus for his at-bat song?
- The Rockies Make a Grand Entrance
- Todd Helton's DUI police report: Lottery tickets and wine in Igloo cups

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