Herman’s Hideaway, which is celebrating its fiftieth anniversary and thirty years of live music this year, is debuting a new patio tonight at the Railbenders show. Mike Roth, the venue’s co-owner, says they’re still putting the finishing touches on the open-air patio, but it will be completely functional starting this…
Update (7/20/12): Contest is over. Congrats to Thad McCauley. You and a guest will be our guests this weekend at all three shows. Thanks to everybody else for the entries. See Also: – 50 Most Memorable People at Global Dance Festival – People of Global Dance Festival 2011 This weekend,…
See also: – Global Dance Festival Survival Guide – Split Decision: Is vinyl obsolete? Split Decision: The Legend of Zelda Symphony With upwards of 20,000 kids descending on Red Rocks this weekend for Global Dance Fest 2012 — a music festival made up mostly of DJ’s — it seemed like…
Welcome to the weekend! There are few festivals happening over the next few days, including the Global Dance Festival at Red Rocks and The UMS, which includes a few hundred local acts and national acts like Shabazz Palaces, at various venues along South Broadway. There’s also forward-thinking indie rock act…
See Also: – Global Dance Festival 2012 tip sheet: The twenty must-see acts – Colorado’s dance scene was Global before EDM became mainstream – Show us your best rage face and win a pair of tickets to GDF – 50 Most Memorable People at Global Dance Festival – People of…
See Also: – Global Dance Festival 2012 Survival Guide – Colorado’s dance scene was Global before EDM became mainstream – Show us your best rage face and win a pair of tickets to GDF – 50 Most Memorable People at Global Dance Festival – People of Global Dance Festival 2011…
Colorado will see more camping music festivals this year than ever before, and we’ve compiled a comprehensive and organized list so you know which ones to attend, if you can’t make them all. We’ve even rated them based on several very important factors from location, to price, to music. Take…
See Also: Ghost of Glaciers at the Mouth House, 7/20/12 Ghosts of Glaciers has played a lot more shows than most bands in the two years since forming. Because the metal group’s sound isn’t just rooted in that style exclusively, the trio has been able to appeal to a wider…
Shabazz Palaces is the brain child of Ishmael Butler and Tendai Maraire. The two met in Seattle when Butler moved back from New York after his stint in the critically acclaimed, jazz inflected hip-hop group Digable Planets. While the Planets have occasionally played since splitting in the mid-’90s, Butler has…
See Also: – Remembering Randy Rhodes thirty years after his tragic death -The Beatles’ Sgt Pepper turns 45 -The Rolling Stones’ Exile on Main Street turns 40 -Jimi Hendrix’s Are You Experienced turns 45 In the early 1980s, a red-haired, Midwestern boy named William Bailey stepped off a bus in…
Westword and Backbeat rolled out a new user profile platform dubbed My Voice Nation and your voice and opinion in our comment sections will now be amplified through a fancy, new commenting program called Livefyre (“live fire”). Read all about it below…
See Also: Tonight: Wymond Miles at the hi-dive Wymond Miles is better known to the rest of the world for his scintillating guitar work in the San Francisco psych-garage pop band, the Fresh & Onlys. But Miles grew up in Aurora, and during the second half of the ’90s and…
BIG K.R.I.T. @ BLUEBIRD THEATER | 7.18.12 See Also: – Big K.R.I.T. at the Marquis, 10/21/10 – Mr. Midas and Big K.R.I.T. collab on “Back On” Big K.R.I.T. calls himself the King Remembered In Time, an appropriate name, because he truly is timeless. When the big king stepped on stage,…
See Also: – “Obviously this writer hasn’t lived in Colorado very long” – “Black & Red should definitely make the top 5” – “Hippies are so hip, it hurts” – “Star Bar does not serve PBR so they are automatically disqualified” from hipster bars” While several readers agreed with us…
As part of the Who’s first tour in four years, the band is taking its 1973 album Quadrophenia on a 36-city North American tour that stops at the Pepsi Center on Tuesday, February 12. In addition to performing the album live, the touring band, which also includes Pete Townshend’s younger…
The Taste of Colorado just announced the latest addition to its lineup, the Pointer Sisters, who will join other outfits already slated to perform, including the Spin Doctors, Burton Cummings of the Guess Who, Lou Gramm and Head East. While the groups on this bill might have been mildly intriguing…
We all have it — that one song that stopped us in our tracks the first time we ever heard it, that continues to give us pause each and every time it’s played. Granted, some of us (see below) are a little more obsessive about these songs than others, but…
See Also: – “Black & Red should definitely make the top 5” – “Hippies are so hip, it hurts” – “Star Bar does not serve PBR so they are automatically disqualified” from hipster bars list” We had no idea that a simple rundown of the five best outdoor venues in…
The Market Street Summerfest, a free concert featuring Tonic and Sister Hazel and a cast of locals, including Bop Skizzum, the Swayback, Take to the Oars and Strange Americans, is coming to 20th and Market on Saturday, August 11. “Market Street by 20th has needed a fun event to bring…
See Also: – Denver’s ten biggest hipster bars – Boulder’s five biggest hipster bars – Five best midsize venues in LoDo and Ballpark – Denver’s ten best karaoke bars – Denver’s ten best dance clubs – Denver’s ten best jukeboxes – Five best places to buy vinyl Red Rocks Amphitheatre…
See Also: – Best of Denver 2012: Girls Rock Denver Showcase, Best Place To See Grrrls Rock Out – Recent reforms have Guitar Center playing a new tune – Five reason to volunteer for Girls Rock Denver Last week, Girls Rock Denver put on its annual summer camp and finale…
See Also: – Mile High Soul Club keeps the Meadowlark sweaty with classic Motown – Nightcap: Membership has its privileges at the Meadowlark’s Mile High Soul Club On Saturday, August 25, former Backbeat scribe and longtime local musician and DJ Jason Heller is coming together with Reggie Blanding, his Chit…
