NOFX @ FILLMORE AUDITORIUM |12/7/12 The funniest (and definitely the wrongest) moment in NOFX’s show last night at the Fillmore came when Fat Mike prefaced “Arming the Proletariat With Potato Guns” by saying, “This is kind of a racist song, but it’s okay if you’re racist toward the people in…
Update 12/7/12: First of all, thanks for the avalanche of entries. Good to know that all you metalheads are tuned into Backbeat. Horns to you! So right down to business. We’ve picked a winner for this mother of all Lamb of God contests, and let just say, it was an…
Update 12/7/12: Congratulations to Elise Smedley. She and a guest will be our guests at tomorrow night’s show (check your email, Elise, for details on how to claim your tickets). Thanks to everybody else who entered. Have fun, Elise! Tomorrow night at the Fillmore, EOTO is headlining the Euphonic Conceptions…
Welcome to the weekend, y’all. Breathe easy. You made it. Good Friday to you. And, oh, what a good Friday it is. Another stacked weekend of music awaits you. Just like the Broncos win streak continues, so does the steady stream of solid shows, whether you’re hankering for some old-school…
If you feel like dancing this week, boy have you come to the right place. There’s an unreal number of enticing options, and we’ve got the full rundown for you, from Alex Celler and Kill the Noise tonight at Beta to EOTO tomorrow night at the Fillmore, Tone of Arc…
Great week for the Lumineers. While, granted, every week this year has probably been pretty swell for those folks, this one in particular in perhaps even more so. In the same week that the quaint outfit that got its start playing modest sets at the Meadowlark received word that its…
MACKLEMORE @ OGDEN THEATRE | 12/6/12 All Macklemore has to do is pose dramatically to induce the same frenzied reaction from an audience that a slightly lesser MC would draw with their signature song. Granted, a very sizable portion of his Denver audience comprised easily riled high school girls, but…
Update: We just spoke with Greg Stone as he was taking his son to hockey practice. Understandably, he’s still in shock. Keep reading to see what he has to say. Man, you about need a syllabus to keep track of all the changes in Denver radio lately, from Comedy 103.1…
Lamb of God started in 1990 as an instrumental metal band called Burn the Priest. But it wasn’t until 1995, after recording a few demos and playing countless house parties, that the band recruited singer Randy Blythe and started developing into the band you would recognize today as Lamb of…
Black Flag, Fugazi, Descendents, Sunny Day Real Estate and the Misfits? On the same bill on the same night? Uh, no. Not in this lifetime, even if you’ve got Warren Buffet money and you’re on some Looper shit. Sorry. But, alas, here’s the next best thing, Denver, some of your…
Although he left Denver as a mere mortal eight years ago, Mitch Pond has returned as Man Mantis, a human-insect-hybrid alter ego that produces glitchy, futuristic, hip-hop-centric beats. If the end of the Mayan calendar does in fact bring about the end of the world, it will be a bummer…
With 1998’s A Go Go, guitarist John Scofield tapped into a whole new demographic by enlisting Medeski, Martin & Wood to play on the disc. While Scofield, who played with Miles Davis, was a respected jazz artist and had delved into fusion previously, with A Go Go he fully embraced…
KREAYSHAWN @ FOX THEATRE | 12/5/12 Part of Kreayshawn’s appeal is the pure curiosity and spectacle of what she must be like “in real life.” As a Tumblr princess (her page is currently decked out to look exactly like a Myspace page, circa 2004 — which would have made her…
There is no ceiling to the game,” declares Sherwyn Nichols. “Even once you made it to the moon, there’s still more.” “When you make your first beat,” adds Kendrick Nichols, Sherwyn’s twin brother, “no matter what it sounds like, you’re like, ‘Damn!’ — and then you just keep going from…
David Jacoby has been performing as Whitecatpink since August 2007. Based in Fort Collins, he makes the occasional foray to Denver to inject a little theater and weirdness into the scene. Part performance art, part electro-lounge pop, Whitecatpink — due this Saturday, December 8, at 7th Circle (2935 West Seventh…
Macklemore’s latest album, The Heist, is currently resting at number 37 on iTunes, but when it was first released, the record both topped that chart and held down the number-two spot on Billboard on the strength of its first-week sales. While chart rankings are hardly meaningful in this modern era,…
The Ramones blitzkrieg bopped for the last time in 1996, but the iconic punks’ spirit still glows in scores of leather-jacket-clad, hook-smitten underground bands. Laramie-based quartet Teenage Bottlerocket is one of the acts admirably carrying the torch with smart songwriting, whoa-oh choruses and sour-apple-flavored blasts of bubblegum pop. On Freak…
There’s something about Todd Snider’s rambling, incisive, irreverent lyrics that have struck a chord with a wide audience. A Portland native, Snider eventually made his way to Memphis, where he often played a bar called the Daily Planet — hence the name of his 1994 debut full-length, Songs for the…
Lamb of God began as an instrumental band called Burn the Priest in 1990, when its founding members were in college in Richmond, Virginia. In the mid-’90s, after releasing a series of demos, Burn the Priest recruited singer Randy Blythe, changing the band’s name in time for its first full-length…
This fourth EP from Monroe Monroe is a more refined effort than previous offerings, both sonically and in terms of the songwriting. On “Everything You Give,” the descending-guitar-riff intro and the way it then winds through the song is reminiscent of Comsat Angels’ melancholic compositions, only infused with more upbeat…
On their previous two releases, the guys in Homebrew showed that they know their way around blues, rock and jazz. On Fourth and Long, they once again bring in special guest singers, but they also mix things up a bit and explore more genres. It’s obvious early on that this…
For the past two years, Myrical has been working with some of the most talented hip-hop musicians in Colorado and abroad, and #WorkFlow Vol. 1 is a presentation of that work. Myrical is not a trendsetter, for now, but he does follow them well: By tape’s end, he and his…
