Update (1/3/12): As reported by numerous outlets yesterday, a twenty-year-old man died yesterday from injuries sustained during a fall at 1STBANK Center on New Year’s Eve. The name of the young man hasn’t been released yet, and Broomfield police are currently investigating the incident. We’ll post more details as they…
SLICK RICK @ CITY HALL | 12/31/11 New Year’s Eve 2011 was well under way Saturday night before Slick Rick took the stage at City Hall Amphitheater. Dipped in so much iced-out jewelry he could have fed an entire Third World country just with the diamonds in his watch, the…
WEEN @ FILLMORE AUDITORIUM | NIGHT THREE | 12.31.11 See also, reviews of: 12/29/11 (night one) and 12/30/11 (night two) Just in case anyone in the capacity crowd packed into the Fillmore Auditorium on New Year’s Eve wasn’t paying attention, Dean Ween sketched out the theme of the night after…
Slim Cessna’s Auto Club @ Bluebird Theater | 12/30/11 For the past decade, Slim Cessna’s Auto Club has been playing the Bluebird on New Year’s Eve and the night before. As Slim himself says, it just kind of happened. The band just kept getting asked to do these yearly shows…
PRETTY LIGHTS @ 1STBANK CENTER | NIGHT ONE | 12/30/11 See also photos from New Year’s Eve With a fairly expansive catalogue to draw from, Derek Vincent Smith has a plethora of singles at his disposal when preparing his sets. Last night, the Pretty Lights mastermind kept things a bit…
WEEN @ FILLMORE AUDITORIUM | NIGHT TWO | 12.30.11 See also, reviews of: 12/29/11 (night one) and 12/30/11 (night three) There was no ambitious declaration or plan of attack from the Ween brothers as they launched into their nearly three-hour long set on Friday night for the second show of…
David Bromberg’s eclectic musical expertise is rooted in the sounds of America. Since the 1960s, the singer and guitarist has drawn from a palette of influences, from bluegrass to ragtime, from country blues to New Orleans jazz. Taking lessons from the legendary Reverend Gary Davis as a Columbia student in…
By now, anyone who’s ever blogged — which is likely most of you reading this — knows that the stories that took the most time, the really important ones, were often around the bottom when it came to traffic, pageviews, unique visitors, etc. Meanwhile, the ol’ bacon Nativity scene is…
Some things, guys, are just too good to be true. Backbeat discovered the perfect example of this fact this morning when, while watching TV, we saw the blog on CNN and wondered what the hell was going on. The story behind that story involves Radiohead, a bakery, the major media…
Long in development, the Miles Davis feature film that Don Cheadle plans to star in and direct has a studio offer, the actor said in interview with the Wall Street Journal that was published today. Cheadle, who graduated from East High School, says in the interview that “the movie isn’t…
WEEN @ FILLMORE AUDITORIUM | NIGHT ONE | 12.29.11 | See also, reviews of: 12/29/11 (night two) and 12/30/11 (night three) Early in the first show of Ween’s three-night stint at the Fillmore, guitarist and frontman Dean Ween offered the crowd a simple game plan: “We’re Ween. We’re the band…
You can’t possibly be partied out! The fun really starts this weekend, where all sorts of people will come together in cheap champagne and party favor glory. If you’re into getting the celebrations started early minus the shenanigans, we’ve got a line-up of album release parties, end of year live…
While there have been a few Red Rocks show announced for next summer, including Foster the People (July 3) and Big Head Todd & the Monsters (June 7), a few tribute shows have also been added to the summer line-up. The third annual John Denver Tribute, featuring Jim Curry and…
Since Ticketfly straddles both the ticketing and social marketing worlds, it makes perfect since for the company to introduce its Facebook Purchase App, which allows people to purchase tickets within Facebook instead of leaving the network to log onto an external system to complete the transaction. So when fans hear…
Together for nearly two decades, Slim Cessna’s Auto Club has played the Bluebird Theater on New Year’s Eve for almost half the time the band has been together. The New Year’s shows have turned into something of a tradition for the band, who usually toss in a little something extra…
Ah! It’s the most wonderful time of the year! When we indulge in too much champagne and cheap party favors, whilst singing songs of old. “Auld Lang Syne” anyone? Well if you’re like us, you know it’s been a festive 2011 and most are ready to shuffle in the next…
Swallow Hill’s Julie Davis School of Music, which starts 2012 classes on January 3, is expanding its Core Programs, something that was previously only used in the Core Guitar Program. The teaching style, which focuses on students playing songs on their instruments right away, is designed for the beginner with…
Voted best club night by Westword in 2007, Chit Chat’s weekly soul night at Old Curtis St. was essentially the city’s best house party. Headed up Jason Heller and Big Al, the two took turns spinning ’45s of deep classic soul cuts, R&B, early funk, vintage mod and Northern soul…
Denver’s all vocal hip-hop group Urban Method, who made it to the final three on NBC’s The Sing-Off, and Boulder-based all vocal rock band FACE, who was on the show in 2009, team up for a night of a cappella at the Paramount on Saturday, February 25. Tickets ($15/$25) are…
Correction: Bop Skizzum performs at Moe’s BBQ & Bowling on New Year’s Eve. An earlier version of this story included an incorrect venue. While there’s plenty of action in the clubs over New Year’s weekend, there are also a ton of bands playing in Denver and Boulder, and a lot…
I’ve been staring at Amy Winehouse’s signature for weeks. After reading the liner notes to Lioness: Hidden Treasures, Amy’s third and final record, I wanted to know more about her. I wanted to get beyond the string of horrific photos, sad last performance videos and nasty “is anyone surprised she…
Last July, Austin-based singer-songwriter Darden Smith gathered a team of other professional musicians to lead a songwriting retreat for nine servicemen and women. Songs written during the retreat were performed at the Faces of Freedom concert on September 11 at the World Arena in Colorado Springs. As a follow-up to…
