He's back! After being unceremoniously let go at KBPI this past December by Clear Channel, Greg Stone, aka Uncle Nasty, is back on the air in Denver.

The popular DJ and longtime local music supporter, who was a radio staple in the Mile High City for the better part of two decades, has been picked up by 107.1 Jack FM. Stone began broadcasting earlier this week, and he'll be making various appearances here and there, including the one today at Jackson's in LoDo in honor of opening day.

While his air time at Jack is notably concise compared to his previous afternoon drive time show, for legions of Hail Nasty devotees, it's just been nice to hear his familiar voice again. We all wondered when he'd be back.

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Josh Winstead

Denver has always been a hotbed for EDM, but that's even more true these days. With that in mind, Walt White, owner and founder of Global DJ Academy (formerly Colorado DJ Academy), saw an opportunity to engage the eager fans who want to move from spectators to participants and actually step behind the decks themselves and get some real-life experience. "I wanted something for students who are beyond the beginner level but still have to learn the art of performance," says White, who also works with Triad Dragons Productions.

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- The ten best EDM shows of 2012

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Matt Rutherford spent more than 300 days sailing around the world in a small boat. Many thought this dubious expedition was impossible, but not only did he complete it, he's now the subject of a new documentary, a film that his old friend and former classmate, Spoke In Wordz, has been tasked with soundtracking. Rutherford is the first person in history to sail around both continents of the Americas alone, and he did it with no radar and no previous sailing experience or any formal aptitude. "No one has ever done it," notes Amy Flannery, director of A Red Dot on the Ocean, the documentary being produced by sailing expert Tory Salvia. "And I don't think anyone else ever will."

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Girls Rock Denver 2012 band, The Hopeless Pickles of Pizazz

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Last week, Girls Rock Denver put on its annual summer camp and finale showcase at the Oriental Theater. Over the course of a week, fifty girls ages eight to eighteen formed ten bands -- some working with instruments for the very first time -- and created an original song together. Along the way, there were workshops on important women in music, self-esteem and stage presence, DIY merchandise and more.

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A.H. Goldstein

Mike Paul Hughes and the Stone Soup Soldiers strategizing.

Seated in front of the soundboard at his home studio in Castle Pines, Mike Paul Hughes reveals telltale signs of his day job as an engineer. There's his rapid-fire technical talk about the basic elements of sound and recording -- details about megahertz and latency issues. But the signals go beyond mere technical talk. There's an attention to detail as he parses guitar lines and offers input about keyboard runs, a kind of obsessiveness that's fitting for an engineer who's worked on putting together space expeditions and million-dollar projects for Lockheed Martin. It's a connection Hughes, a member and one of the creators of the Stone Soup Soldiers music project, is quick to embrace.

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Lindsay Meredith drinks a lot of coffee, and last month, she decided to put that fact to good use. During one of her frequent trips to the Wooden Spoon Cafe & Bakery, the Highlands-area singer-songwriter gathered a notebook, a pen and a large coffee together to brainstorm ways to promote her gypsy rock band, Lindsay and the Lost Caravan. "That's when I realized I had basically memorized all of the words on my coffee cup -- all of those ads and details in the thirty minutes I was sitting there," Meredith says. "So I thought: Why can't those words be about my music?"

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Yo! We've got a hip-hop whodunit on our hands. Well, maybe not a whodunit, but still, there's a mystery afoot in the world of rap. And if there's anything we love more than rappers, it's mystery rappers! Who the hell is this Benjamin Butters cat? Do you know? We need answers, and it appears as though a few of the main hip-hop guys in the scene know exactly what's up, but they're all keeping mum.

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The house of rock: 1323 S. Lafayette

While the Zillow.com listing for the house at 1323 South Lafayette is suitably informative (from the basic descriptors -- two bedrooms, three bathrooms, 2,430 square feet, built in 1920, fireplace -- to the intangibles, "amazing location for this contemporary remodel," it says, "only three houses from Wash Park..."), it leaves out one rather enticing detail: namely, that its current owner is none other than one Mr. Todd Park Mohr, better known to local music fans as the namesake for Big Head Todd and the Monsters.

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With Blue Like Jazz, the screen adaptation of Donald Miller's New York Times best-selling book, Steve Taylor has done for film exactly what he did for music in the early to mid-'80s -- namely, give the staid world of Christian-centric art a much needed jolt of vitality. In the same way he riled the buttoned-up Christian community during the Reagan era with incendiary songs like "I Blew Up the Clinic Real Good," the Northglenn native, who directed the film and helped pen the screenplay with Miller and Ben Pearson, is bound to once again stir the ire and offend the delicate sensibilities of more thin-skinned believers with this latest project.

Taylor, of course, has a well-established history of being a provocateur. As a musician, Taylor, who studied at the University of Colorado, got his start in the late '70s attending a summer camp run by John Davidson, a long-since-forgotten TV personality from that era, before a breakout performance at a gospel-music seminar in Estes Park led to his signing with Sparrow Records and embarking on a highly influential and often controversial career in Christian music.

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Today marks fifteen years since the Notorious B.I.G. was tragically gunned down in a murder that remains shrouded in opinion, mystery and haunting culture appeal. You probably remember exactly where you were on this day in 1997 when you heard the news that one of the game's greatest rappers had died. At that precise moment, the world of rap no doubt became truly real.

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