Update 10/31/12: Contest is over. Congratulations to Jason Dreith. He and a guest will be our guests at the show tonight. Thanks to everybody else for all the entries and even more for reading Backbeat! Keep checking back for more sweet giveaways! Gwar on Halloween at the Summit Music Hall?…
Lest it get lost in all the hubub of Halloween, be advised: Tomorrow night marks a significant and bittersweet moment in the Denver music scene. It’s the last call for Bender’s Tavern, which is slated to change hands in the next few weeks and become the new home of Quixote’s…
Tons of concert news for you this morning: You’ve already heard about the Morrissey show this weekend being postponed and about Taylor Swift coming back to Denver next summer, but we’ve also got word of Green Day’s 1STBANK show in February being postponed, K’nann show at the Gothic being cancelled,…
While the Afghan Whigs are probably not the first band people think of when they think of the ’90s, album for album, the band consistently put out quality material. The outfit’s soul-inflected rock, which could just as easily be called power pop even though it packed a lot more punch…
RYAN ADAMS @ BOULDER THEATER Half of the fun of seeing Ryan Adams live, apparently, is getting to hear all his banter. He has a fascinating duality: One minute he’s completely enthralling the crowd with a heartfelt ballad, and then he bookends the tune by casually offering up a hilarious…
The genius part of the Church’s Friday-night party theme — Naughty Tricks and Sexy Treats — is that the majority of Halloween costumes can be adapted to fit it. And they did: Hundreds of costumed party people flocked to the nightclub to dance, drink and enter the Church’s $1,000 costume…
Triad Dragons know how to throw a party. Over the weekend, they threw a small country. The massive annual costume party that is HallowFreak’nWeen took over the National Western Complex on Saturday with more than forty electronic acts and thousands of dressed-up (and dressed-down) ravers celebrating both sin and salvation…
Taylor Swift fans — and judging by the enormous first week record sales of Red, her latest platter released last week, that accounts for a great many folks — will be rejoicing at news that Swift is heading back out on the road this spring (to wit, that means 58…
Happy Monday, amigos. Hope you didn’t go too hard this past weekend — though, judging from the pics from Rockbar’s last call, some of you apparently did — because there’s at least four truckloads of shows (including Ryan Adams acoustic set at Boulder Theater tonight) going down this week, which…
After last call this past Saturday, Rockbar went dark for good. From the looks of it, the beloved Colfax bar didn’t go gently into that good night, but rather went out with a bang — ladies on tables and babies boozing. Oh what a night, as the Four Seasons once…
Bad news for Morrissey fans: As you’ve undoubtedly deduced from the headline above, the estimable crooner, who was originally slated to appear this Saturday, November 3 at the Ellie Caulkins Opera House, will not be in the Mile High City this weekend. The reason: He’s postponed all of the remaining…
Update 10/29/12: Rumor confirmed. After performing this past weekend with Dirty Femmes at the Larimer Lounge, Violent Femmes frontman Gordon Gano is staying in town for an encore performance with the Denver tribute band this Friday, November 2, at the Oriental with Hell’s Belles and MF Ruckus. According to Korte,…
BEATS ANTIQUE @ FILLMORE AUDITORIUM | 10/27/12 As the lights rose for the encore, multi-instrumentalist David Satori made sure to inform everyone at the Fillmore the importance of voting, and then went on to note that if you weren’t planning on taking part in the process then in the very…
While Mitt Romney may have Kid Rock, Rodney Atkins and, uh, Meat Loaf (!) in his corner, El Presidente has Ryan Adams in his, and, well, musically, that’s pretty much a trump card if ever there was one. Adams is throwing his muscle behind the Obama/Biden campaign this evening by…
Welcome to the weekend, amigos! Ah, yes, we finally made it. Is it just us, or has this seemed like the longest week ever? Ah, maybe it’s just the weather. Whatever the case, it’s in the rearview now, and it’s time to blow off some steam. Drinks are on the…
Is it Halloween already? Why, yes, you bet your sweet trick-or-treat it is — and the proof is in the ridiculous amount of talent that’s landing on the city this weekend, including Pete Bones, Beats Antique and Paco Osuna, among others. Whatever costume you have picked out, hopefully you can…
Update 10/26/12: Contest is over. Congratulations to Jason Dalrymple. He and a guest will be our guests at the show Saturday night. Thanks to everybody else for the entries, and for reading Backbeat! Beats Antique is back in town this weekend for a show tomorrow night at the Fillmore Auditorium…
RAEKWON @ ROCK THE VOTE ROAD TRIP / AURARIA | 10/25/12 “Whether there’s twenty people or 2,000,” said Raekwon, painfully aware of which side of that spectrum this small gathering was on, “I’m always gonna give it 200 percent.” And he did, with grace. He spoke directly to the front…
WAKA FLOCKA @ OGDEN THEATRE | 10/25/12 In order for Waka Flocka and his crew to keep pace with his past appearance in the Mile High City, all they would have had to do at this is walk out on stage and perform a few hit singles. Instead, the Brick…
Dark Dark Dark from Minneapolis makes music that draws from folk, jazz, modern classical and pop without showing favor to any of those elements in particular. Although the band’s earlier material was largely written by singer/pianist Nona Marie Invie and fellow singer/clarinetist/banjo player Marshall LaCount, Dark Dark Dark is a…
After gaining a reputation for taste and comprehension with their first three volumes, including a nod in our 2010 Best of Denver issue, the folks at Radio 1190 continue to document the Denver music scene with their fourth installment the Local Shakedown series, a two-disc set that covers a gamut…
Update 10/26/12: Contest is over. Congratulations to Lisa Huerta. She and a guest will be our guests at tonight’s Grace Potter and the Nocturnals show at the Fillmore, and thanks to everybody else for the entries! Tomorrow night at the Fillmore Auditorium Grace Potter and the Nocturnals, a longtime favorite…
