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Bolt your steel doors, stock your panic rooms and hide anything that can feasibly be sexually penetrated because the porno pushers from Orange County, California are on their way to Denver.

Since cracking the market in 1988, Guttermouth has survived by maintaining a controversial street rep and electing to have a ripping good time, as opposed to being bogged down with meaningless hardcore posturing. Their ditties are concise and biting reminders that every serious subject has its weaknesses and exploiting them through song is a good way to make friends with rejects and burnouts.

Jumping off of the 2004 Warped Tour, where Guttermouth alienated other bands and thousands of young people who flocked to the events, the band sold T-shirts that implored kids to re-elect George W. Bush; the band lectured on the pity of blindly following leftwing pop bands, and they criticized many of the artists for being far more concerned with fashion than politics.

So for concertgoers: Respect the potential that your teeth might be mopped off the floor or that your sweat will give you a full-body rash that will last for weeks. Just try to go limp while enjoying a sound that is neither ironic nor novel, but rather a genuine heartfelt thrashing of power chords mixing with irreverently outrageous Southern California poetry.

- By Billy Schear
wschear@mscd.edu

Saturday 2.23
Guttermouth w/ Civet, Frontside Five, Boldtype
8 p.m.
@ The Marquis Theater
$12, All Ages

The Drive-by Truckers will be getting into their 2008 touring groove Feb. 21-23 when they come to Colorado.

The eclectic group always seems to be on the road and with the release of Brighter Than Creations Dark they are sweeping the nation.

Although it is a bit of a jaunt to go see the Truckers at the Belly Up in Aspen Feb. 21, Denverites shouldn’t have a problem making it to the Ogden Theatre Feb. 22 or to the Fox Theatre in Boulder Feb. 23.

For the majority of the 2008 touring season, the Felice Brothers have been opening for the Truckers, and look to do so for all three Colorado shows. According to the band’s MySpace page, the Felice Brothers “sound like a barn smells,” but I wouldn’t let that discourage you.

The Truckers will be without longtime guitar player Jason Isbell, but the band’s three-guitar-assault is reportedly still intact.

Newcomers to a Truckers show should be prepared for a raucous crowd of the Trucker’s faithful lubricated with whiskey.

- By Evan Luthye
eluthye@mscd.edu

Thursday 2.21
Drive-By Truckers w/ The Felice Brothers
9 p.m. @ The Belly Up, Aspen
$35, All Ages

Friday 2.22
9 p.m. @ The Ogden Theatre
$25, 16+

Saturday 2.23
8 p.m. @ The Fox Theatre,
Boulder
$25, 21+

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Friday 2.22

The Horrorpops w/ The Pink Spiders
9 p.m.
@ The Bluebird Theater
$13.50, 16+

Saturday 2.23

Stockholm Syndrome w/ Dead Confederate
8 p.m.
@ The Gothic Theatre
$21.25, 18+

Tuesday 2.26

The Hives w/ The Donnas
8 p.m.
@ The Ogden Theatre
$20, 16+

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Saturday 2.23

New York Dolls w/ We Are The Fury
7:30 p.m.
@ The Gothic Theatre
$20, 16+

Foo Fighters
@ Red Rocks Amphitheatre
7/14
Buy tickets at
ticketmaster.com

Saturday 2.16

Kanye West w/ Rihanna, N.E.R.D. and Lupe Fiasco
@ The Pepsi Center, 4/27
Buy tickets at
livenation.com

NOFX w/ No Use For a Name and American Steel
@ The Fillmore, 5/2
Buy tickets at
fatwreck.com