Maybe you've noticed this, maybe you haven't. We did, and it's sort of been stuck in our craw ever since. The other day, we were listening to one of the new country stations in town (hey, don't judge us -- it's a perfect palate cleanser!) when a song from Montgomery Gentry came on, a banal little ditty called "Lucky Man."
Once upon a time, long before Fez Garcia was the drummer for half the bands in Denver (or, at the moment, just Fingers of the Sun, Bury My Bones and Night of Joy), he was a goofy kid with glasses. When we put the call out earlier this week for childhood photos of our favorite local musicians playing the Westword Music Showcase tomorrow for this week's contest (stay tuned, we'll be revealing who's who and picking winners shortly), Fez's mom gladly offered up this picture of him.
Trolling the web, we recently came across a series of videos featuring a juggalo named MrTmzfan. We can't quite place the face, but it looks slightly familiar, like another mister so and so we know. Maybe it's just the face paint. Anyhow, judging from the comments made by said juggalo in another clip titled "Juggalo Not Full of Hate" about being asked to remove his ICP hoodie at the "Northwest mall," we're pretty sure we're dealing with a local here. The story sounds familiar anyway.
No, we don't have our guitar plugged into our Smokey Amp again. Why do you ask? Oh that. Yeah, no, we're just screwing around with our Google Doodle in honor of Les Paul, who would've been 96 today. Easy, tiger. It only sounds dirty -- uh, the Google Doodle, that is, not what we're playing. What we're playing actually sounds like being trapped in a Guitar Center with a bunch of eager and precocious four year olds. 
Surely you've heard the expression: "That's a heart attack waiting to happen"? While we're not inquiring enough to Google its origin, from the sounds of it, that phrase could very well have been coined to describe the Fool's Gold Loaf from the Colorado Mine Company that Elvis once flew to all the way to Denver in the middle of the night to eat on the tarmac at Stapleton Airport. The thing sounds absolutely freaking disgusting.
More »BEFORE YOU GO: Be sure to check out our U2 / End of the World Survival Guide for everything you need to know about tonight's show at Invesco Field: a likely setlist, parking information, prohibited items and more.
Charlie Sheen's "My Violent Torpedo of Truth/Defeat is Not an Option" tour hits Denver Thursday, April 28, at the Wells Fargo Theatre, but is Denver ready for Charlie? More important, is Charlie ready for Denver?
Using highly scientific research methods, we've developed the Tiger Blood Barometer® to determine if Sheen is going to bomb or have them give a standing O on Thursday night.
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In a little more than a month, U2 is playing at Invesco Field. May 21, to be exact. Yeah, we're pretty psyched, too. Even more so now: Did you happen to notice anything significant about that date? Know what else is going down then? Um, just a little thing called Judgment Day. For realz! We've seen the billboards around town guaranteeing it. 
It's the end of the world as we know it ...
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So you knew it was bound to happen sooner or later. In the film world, Sundance begat Slam Dance, and in music, South By Southwest spawned South By So What and a dozen other alternate festivals. Now with the rising popularity of this weekend's sold-out Coachella, we've got Whoa... Chella fest and a couple other also-rans we caught wind of.
Sammy. Sammy. Sammy. It must be difficult for a rock star in a rad band like Van Halen to be constantly competing with his predecessor, but this who's-better nonsense has gone on too long and now... too far. Sammy Hagar has just released his autobiography, Red: My Uncensored Life in Rock, containing ginormous revelations that he hopes will "light a fire" under Van Halen's ass to get back in the studio, you know, for the fans. 
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