Passion Pit began in as a solo project of lead singer and keyboard player Michael Angelakos in 2007. The project quickly fleshed out into a full band that combined a keen sense for upbeat pop melodies with lyrics that didn’t exactly try to sugarcoat the complex emotional life and experiences…
On Wednesday, March 6, Barry Fey will be inducted into yet another hall of fame, this one the Denver & Colorado Tourism Hall of Fame. In honor of his induction, we’ll be running the stories that didn’t make his memoir all this week. Today, Pam Moore shares what it was…
Glucose (aka Ben Gleason) makes hallucination-inspired music, so it’s seems only fitting that for a living he owns and operates an isolation tank — yeah, just like Altered States, only without William Hurt or the primal-DNA time portals. It’s a job that leaves him plenty of time to work on…
Sometimes there are figures in music whose mysterious and inscrutable magnetism transcends the music they make. More than musicians, they become cultural figures whose every move is analyzed every which way in an effort to figure out what’s going on in that great gray matter, as Frank Ocean puts it…
It’s all Morrissey all the time on Backbeat, apparently. In what can only be explained as the universe being charter member of the Cult of Moz (or just seriously coincidental timing), we’ve just received word that the one and only Steven Patrick Morrissey has rescheduled his upcoming Denver date. Postponed…
See also: More than a fascinating piece of Smithsology, the ’80s radio takeover is a story of redemption After examining the letters he wrote to his parents, which were included in the original Lakewood police file, and the details of that harrowing and fateful day in the fall of 1988…
Celebrity fandom is almost always based on inaccessibility. Whether it’s a rock star, an actor or a politician, desire is created when you reach out for the object of passion and come up a few inches short. So what happens when you have a fanbase that is made up of…
Craigslist is a place where weirdos and miscellaneous miscreants alike can convene in the relative privacy of anonymity without the prying and scrutinizing eye of the public — well, except for the fact that we’re all voyeurs who stalk the web round-the-clock for the latest absurdity to distract us from…
On Wednesday, March 6, Barry Fey will be inducted into yet another hall of fame, this one the Denver & Colorado Tourism Hall of Fame, and that couldn’t be more fitting. Next to sports, music is probably our state’s biggest attraction, and we have Barry Fey to thank for that…
Alright, how many times have you driven past that dude on the corner, the one twirling his sign like a madman, and thought to yourself Wow! That dude is rocking out. Wonder what the hell he’s listening to? Wonder no more. Mystery solved. It’s Slayer. At least that’s what this…
TESTAMENT @ SUMMIT MUSIC HALL | MON, 2/25/13 In terms of thrash metal, Testament is one of the bands that you can make a strong case for expanding the Big 4 to the Big 5. The Bay Area act was part of the original thrash movement, which fused the precision…
MOUSE ON MARS @ SUMMIT MUSIC HALL |2/23/13 As visuals flashed, streamed, scrolled, blinked, increased in luminosity and otherwise conspired to reflect the jittery, glitchy, sometimes manic and always dynamic flow of sounds being produced by Mouse on Mars, Andi Toma and Jan St. Werner stood behind a bank of…
With Artopia’s dense schedule, it’s important to get limber. You can’t rush into things. Pulling a muscle or getting a cramp early could mean missing all too many things. Much like a herd of wildebeests in migration, there is no forgiveness for being slow because time — like a lion…
Umphrey’s McGee, due for a pair of sold-out dates at the Belly Up in Aspen on Wednesday, March 6 and Thursday, March 7, will be making its way back to Colorado this summer for a pair of dates, one for certain a show at Red Rocks on Friday, June 7,…
Update: Congratulations to denver.danrutherford and trenken0103! Each of you has won two tickets to Artopia. Check your email for details on how to claim them. Original post: It’s here. Artopia 2013. Brace yourself. It’s going to be a blast and a half. As always, the lineup is crazy stacked with…
Mouse on Mars is a German duo made up of Jan St. Werner and Andi Toma, who started the project from their respective home cities of Cologne and Düsseldorf as a means of exploring sounds and organizing them into unconventional compositions. Whether this meant using traditional instrumentation, synthesizers, samples of…
Update, 2/25/13: The Smiths ’80s radio station takeover: Here’s what really happened according to the original offense report filed by the Lakewood Police Department, plus letters written by the suspect to his parents prior to the incident. By Dave Herrera and Josiah Hesse Well, so, we finally got to the…
TINI @ NORAD | SAT, 2/23/13 tINI holds down residencies in Ibiza, London and other high-profile cities all over the world as well as in her native Germany; despite her name, she’s clearly a force to be reckoned with. Then again, her moniker is just as likely a nod to…
YO GABBA GABBA! @ PARAMOUNT THEATRE | SUN, 2/24/13 Sesame Street couldn’t handle mixing kids’ programming with Katy Perry cleavage, but Yo Gabba Gabba! gets it right every time. Perhaps it’s because one of the show’s creators, Christian Jacobs, is MC Bat Commander of the Aquabats. After becoming a father,…
Quick: If you were Colorado and you wanted to jump on the bandwagon of a nearly exhausted Internet phenomenon and, say, film a Harlem Shake video of your own with thousands of your closest friends (okay, maybe not thousands — only 86 people have confirmed so far, while 52 are…
So, hey, listen, I totally meant to share this with you earlier in the week, but I completely forgot. As you can see, it’s only the best sign in the history of ever. I came across this brilliant piece of signage this past Saturday night after the Neurosis show, when…
Whoa, whoa… We just had a batch of killer local hip-hop to present last week. Are you telling me there’s already a whole new set of juicy cuts to be enjoyed? Yes. That’s exactly what we’re telling you. It can’t stop and it won’t stop. First, we have a new…
