The Boulder City Council approved a set of regulations including requiring a $5,000 up-front licensing fee with a $2,000 renewal fee, barring dispensaries from opening within 500 feet of a school, making owners go through a background check and requiring the purchase of renewable energy credits if they are growing marijuana on-site.

Life on the road is a necessary evil for most musicians. Recording an album means not just a commitment to studio time, gut-wrenching writing sessions and endless rehearsals, but a commitment to a year on the road, playing shows in towns you've never heard of and would probably never visit otherwise.

New Jersey strongman Stan 'Stanless Steel' Pleskun, the 'Strongest Man in the World at Bending Steel,' and his struggle to build a career performing feats of strength are the subject of New York filmmaker Zach Levy's award-winning documentary Strongman,.

Before I start describing Monday’s Them Crooked Vultures show, I think a little discussion of the group itself is in order. After all, some people (an unfortunate few) may not yet have had the privilege of hearing the self-titled disc from three of the most influential rockers of their respective decades.

British alt-rockers Muse announced that they will be forced to cancel their April 6 show tonight due to poor road conditions at Vail Pass. Muse has booked a new show at the Pepsi Center on October 2, according to a press release from Anschutz Entertainment Group. Ticket holders from tonight’s show will be able to exchange tickets from tonight’s show for tickets to the Pepsi Center show starting April 14. Refunds for tonight’s show will be given at the point of sale.

Spoon played a packed, sold-out show at the Ogden Theater in Denver last night, and the band did not disappoint the loyal crowds there to see the indie-rock icons. The opening acts, Micachu and the Shapes and Deerhunter, received unenthusiastic yet polite applause from the crowd, and a quick look at the many bored faces dotting the floor of the Ogden implied that most were there for the main act, not the openers.

"It's the hard work and tenacity of Brit and Jim, to a large degree, because these guys have been doing this for like 15 years, and they've always focused on putting out a record every couple years and making it as good as they can," Harvey says. "There's a certain sort of steady growth to that pattern in the quality of the records.

Paperdoll, Fort Collins singer-songwriter Elyse Miller’s debut effort, is an unusual entry in the seemingly endless catalog of soft, somewhat sardonic music made by acoustic guitar-wielding musicians so ubiquitous in our nation’s coffee shops and open mics.

Colorado Attorney General John Suthers announced Monday he will join a lawsuit with at least a dozen other state attorneys challenging the constitutionality of the new federal health care legislation, which President Barack Obama signed into law earlier today.

Embattled former Tonight Show host Conan O’Brien is embarking on a comedy variety tour and will stop in Boulder’s Mackey Auditorium on May 9. O’Brien will tour with the former Tonight Show band and longtime sidekick Andy Richter. The tour, called “Legally Prohibited From Being Funny On Television,” kicks off in Eugene, Ore. on April 12.