Line down the block? Check. Impeccably dressed security guards? Check. Booming music from two floors? Double check. Last night at 24K for the unofficial kick off of YOLO season, damn near everyone you know in Denver, plus some cats you’ve probably forgotten about, were lined up to get into Gold…
SIGNAL PATH @ BLUEBIRD THEATER | 5/25/12 If a change of pace, geographic location, home life and hiatus are all a band needs to find itself smack-dab in the middle of its prime, then let Signal Path be the bearer of the torch. Last night, the trio showed Denver what…
MANCUB @ LARIMER LOUNGE | 5/25/12 With a perforated, paneled structure as its backdrop with lights shining through and strung along the top edge, ManCub started things off with a forceful flood of low end, and both Alex Anderson and Ethan Converse seemed to push themselves headlong into the music…
The long weekend is here, and there are more dance related activities and parties over the next few days than you can probably handle. From the Hive’s grand opening tonight to the Solution Showcase#6 tomorrow night, along with the Riddle of the Sphinx party, some funk/soul sessions and dance music…
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Ah, yes, welcome to the weekend! Been a long week, and now you’re about to get to enjoy a long weekend. As always, a plethora of enticing options this weekend and it’s another good mix: Tonight, a trio of local release parties featuring Signal Path, ManCub and Rockie kick things…
As you might have heard, Van Halen played the Pepsi Center in Denver last night, dusting off a few hits from its mega-selling album, 1984. Roving photographer Brandon Marshall hit the Pepsi Center parking lot asking fans to share where they were in 1984. Here are some of the people…
Eminence Ensemble (due at Cervantes’ Masterpiece Ballroom tomorrow night) has been frequently making a name for itself among the Boulder-based acts that have been emerging onto the scene. In advance of tomorrow night’s show, we spoke with percussionist Nick Baum recently to find out a little more about the band…
VAN HALEN @ PEPSI CENTER | 5/24/12 Evidently, 1982 was a very good year for David Lee Roth. “You’re taking pictures here tonight, hot stuff?” the Van Halen frontman asked a woman in the front row in the middle of “Panama.” “What? Oh, you want to make a sex tape…
Reno Divorce (due tomorrow night at the Marquis Theater) began in the middle ’90s when frontman and guitarist Brent Loveday founded the outfit while still living in Orlando, Florida. Some early, glowing press came the way of the band’s 7-inch. But it wasn’t until Loveday relocated to Denver and discovered…
Over the course of the next few weeks, Backbeat will be counting down the twenty most fabled moments in Denver music history. Today, a look back at Einstürzende Neubauten’s 1986 show in a Commerce City junkyard. Fabled Berlin industrial rock act Einstürzende Neubauten played perhaps one of the strangest shows…
Orchard Lounge (due tonight at Cervantes’ Masterpiece Ballroom with Mark Farnia and Lindstrom) has been spinning around the country for more than a decade. The trio, made up of Ben Silver and Bethany and Spencer Lokken, stay true the meaning of being a DJ, but recently the three have taken…
It’s a big week for American Idol this week. Besides the crowning of the season 11 winner, Phillip Phillips, the singing talent show sees another of its alums rise to the top of the Billboard 200 chart. The first time in chart history, one Idol is succeeded by another, as…
Five months of auditions, live performances and rounds and rounds of voting led to last night’s big moment. Who would be crowned the American Idol champion after so much anticipation? Who deserved to win? Phillip Phillips. Beating Jessica Sanchez, the season’s runner-up, in a record-breaking 132 million total votes, Phillips…
When the Roadhouse Rebels come to the Oriental Theater this Sunday night, the act, which features Robby Krieger of the Doors and Particle keyboardist Steve Molitz, they’ll be joined by an all-star cast of players, including Oingo Boingo/Mutaytor bassist John Avila, the Black Crowes’ Rich Robinson and drummer Joe Magistro…
Hungry for change? Flobots.org have cooked up an idea for a unique pop-up brunch this Saturday, May 26, at the Meadowlark. For the brunch, which is geared toward raising money for Art to Action, a program that works with more than 2,000 DPS middle- and high-schoolers annually to provide oft-neglected…
Denver’s Catheter recently issued its first full-length album in seven years, Southwest Doom Violence, the follow-up to 2005’s Dimension 303. The band’s latest effort — bolstering an extensive library of EPs and split releases — offers a healthy mix of grind, doom, sludge and even crust punk, building on the…
Over the course of the next few weeks, Backbeat will be counting down the twenty most fabled moments in Denver music history. Today, a look back at Black Flag’s 1984 show at the Rainbow Music Hall that ended with members of the opening act being arrested. You may have heard…
In the nearly eleven years that Lipgloss has been adding spice to Denver’s Friday nights, it has played host to some of the finest guest DJs in the music industry, from Mani of the Stone Roses and Primal Scream fame to the Go-Go’s adorable guitarist Jane Wiedlin to members of…
And it don’t stop. Another batch of great shows announced this week, including Rise Against, who’s due for a pair of back-to-back nights at the Fillmore in September, as well as Peter Gabriel, who will be performing his album So in its entirety a few nights later at Red Rocks…
Over the course of the next few weeks, Backbeat will be counting down the twenty most fabled moments in Denver music history. Today, a look back at Michael Jackson’s week-long stay here in Mile High City in 1984 and the secrecy surrounding it. Long before Michael Jackson’s name became shorthand…
Among a handful of the local music-scene tributes to recently deceased Beastie Boy Adam Yauch, Time offered his respects for the fallen MC and activist on a new tune, “Too Sweet to Be Sour,” a cross-Atlantic collaboration with British MC Akira the Don. The track opens with a crisp horn…
