RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE @ DENVER COLISEUM | 8/27/08 Live blog: 11:10 a.m. Wednesday, August 27, 2008: It’s just after 11 a.m., and things are just getting underway at the Denver Coliseum. State Radio just took the stage and is in the midst of playing an energetic set in front…
Photo by Eric Syl Gruneisen Willie Nelson & Family with Jerry Jeff Walker and Jakob Dylan Tuesday, August 26, 2008 Red Rocks Amphitheater Better Than: Sitting inside watching the Hillary Clinton speech. It was a gorgeous night at Red Rocks when Jakob Dylan and his three band members took the…
It’s hard to not to be a bit star-struck when Al Green starts singing the first verse of “Let’s Stay Together” on the phone from his home in Memphis, or even just talking to him. But Green has a way to make a guy feel at ease and about thirty…
The members of Ratatat are deer friends. Westword’s August 28 Ratatat profile dips into a lengthy interview with Evan Mast, who makes up half the lineup of this electro/eclectic instrumental partnership. So take a long drink of the complete Q&A, accessible below…
“Don’t you think there should be some sort of law where you can’t have nuclear bombs unless you can pronounce ‘nuclear’?” said David Crosby.
Today started out like any other day: 6 a.m. coffee, a couple of smokes, some news and left overs from the night before. I turned on the TV and flipped to MSNBC, because that was the one big news network that I happened to see setting up Sunday afternoon by…
Talib Kweli and the Rhythm Roots All Stars hit the Fox Theatre on October 10. There weren’t quite as many concert announcements as in the past few weeks, but a few changes. British soul singer Adele’s show, which was originally scheduled for June 21 at the Fox Theatre, has been…
Cinemocracy Rocks! Monday, August 25, 2008 Red Rocks Amphiteatre Better than: Rocking in the free world. Near the end of Alan Dominguez’s film, Cinema+(Dem)ocracy, a guy said, “Voting is like peeing the ocean. It doesn’t make much difference, but you really feel good having done it.” Of all the people…
Update (8/25): Just got the drop on a late night party hosted by MySpace at Mile High Station featuring Nelly. Hold on. Before you start Googling Mile High Station, you should know that this event, a salute to the screen actor’s guild, is another invite-only shindig. Update (8/22): Welp, looks…
Kyle Holingsworth in an image courtesy of flickr. Among the most unexpected participants in the New Orleans All-Star Jam-Balaya, staged on August 24 at the Fillmore Auditorium (click here to read a full review) was organist Kyle Hollingsworth, a Colorado boy best known in these parts for his membership in…
George Porter, Jr. The heartbeat of the New Orleans All-Star Jam-Balaya event on August 24 — reviewed in detail here — was George Porter, Jr., one of the great bassists in modern musical history. Westword recently conducted an extended chat with Porter in the context of his current band, Porter…
Just received word from the Mad Society Productions folks that the Public Enemy show originally slated for tonight at Boulder’s Theater has been rescheduled for Wednesday. Admission to the show is free and open to folks sixteen and older (with a valid photo ID). You may remember last week the…
Allen Toussaint. The New Orleans All-Star Jam-Balaya Fillmore Auditorium August 24 It was clear that the New Orleans All-Star Jam-Balaya, a fundraiser co-sponsored by the Friends of New Orleans featuring some of the biggest and best names in Louisiana music, differed from the typical live-performance event in Denver even before…
Flobots, Railbenders Saturday, August 23, 2008 Elitch Gardens, DNC Media Party Better than: A vacation at Pleasure Island. It’s a scene that’s disturbing in its darkness, and eerie in its implications. In Walt Disney’s 1940 feature film Pinocchio, the wooden protagonist is lured to a promised utopia for little boys,…
Rock the Bells Tour Saturday, August 23, 2008 Fiddler’s Green The Rock the Bells show was supposed to be a sort of door closing on my adult years, one of those watershed moments replete with voiceover from Richard Dreyfuss that would have gone something like: “As my homies and I…
Photo: Dave Herrera 3OH!3, Chain Gang of 1974 and the Pirate Signal Saturday, August 23, 2008 Fox Theatre, Boulder Having seen 3OH!3 at each of the past two Warped Tours (click here and here for details), I expected more of the same on August 23 at the first of two…
Hello little girl. Do you like candy? Here’s a handy guide to all the great content you may have missed this week on Backbeat Online while you were transfixed by the efforts of one-time glam rocker and convicted child molester Gary Glitter to find a country that will take him…
“Where my reality show at, dogs?” DMX gets a reality show Even though DMX is sitting in a Miami jail waiting to answer to a variety of charges including drug possession, weapons possessions and animal cruelty, some television producers think his life would make for some great entertainment. The show…
Say, miss, is that Daft Punk you’re grinding your junk to? Normally, I don’t have to try too hard to get exposed to new music. Thanks to hard-working publicists, record labels and musicians, my mailbox and email are usually filled with the latest and greatest. And I make a concerted…
Received word earlier today from my boy Whip, 101.5 FM’s music director, that KTNI’s new locals show will make its broadcast debut next Thursday night from 10 p.m. to midnight. In a new twist in local programming, the show, set to be hosted by Whip himself, will be broadcast live…
It’s been a busy week around here trying to keep track of everything that’s going on during the DNC. All eyes are understandably on the high profile events, meaning all the other cool local events that have nothing to do with the convention are in danger of being overshadowed. Not…
Update (8/22): Just moments ago, Metallica debuted “The Day That Never Comes,” a song from the new record on its website. Meh. While we’ll hold out judgement on the rest of the album, this particular tune sounds an awful lot like it could’ve been an outtake from Metallica (the “Black…
