Feel like cutting a rug this weekend? Good because there’s plenty on this weekend’s Dance Card: There’s a label launch tonight at minibar for 5 and Dime, a brand-new deep/tech house label; the launch will have music from Bones, ben A, Louis Marr, Joseph Newman and Quinn. There will be…
Looks like it’s going to be a minute before Le Divorce gigs again. Earlier this week, the outfit, led by Kitty Vincent, shared word that bassist Ryan Stubbs was leaving the fold for a job opportunity in Washington D.C., and that drummer Chris Durant was also parting ways with the…
Overcasters have finished work on their new album, Curses//Prayers, and set a release date. And like with The Whole Sea is Raging, the outfit’s previous album from 2010, this one was produced by Rick Parker (Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Von Bondies) and will be celebrated with a three-day release party…
Bop Skizzum has finally named its new lead singer, and she’s making her live debut tonight at Cervantes’, when the band shares a bill with the legends of Fishbone. Last month we confirmed that the group had indeed found a replacement for the then-departing Erin Jo Harris, but they were…
Ian Cooke’s gotta be breathing a sight of relief today. Yesterday morning, the lauded local songwriter, who was driving by himself, was involved in an accident in which his van flipped. Somehow he escaped injury. According to Ian O’Dougherty, his longtime friend and manager, Cooke hit some black ice, which…
DJ Premier is one of the greatest producers of all time. Ask anyone. He’s a trailblazing pioneer that has influenced pretty much every hip-hop producer and beat maker doing it. Maintaining longevity unlike any producer or DJ in his lane, Premier has worked with every huge name imaginable. Most notably…
GWAR at SUMMIT MUSIC HALL | 11/16/11There’s not a lot left to say about Gwar that hasn’t already been mythologized. Instead, I’ll defer to tradition: About twenty minutes before one of the band’s shows, you hear the collective sound of zippers. Attached to ponchos and raincoats and the occasional sweatshirt,…
Here are the winners of the 2011 Denver #WebAwards in the category we’re loosely dubbing “music,” which means Backbeat scribes report on the happenings in these areas, right here on Backbeat. These are the winners only; for a complete list of finalists go here: “Here are your 2011 Denver #WebAwards…
Brennan Bryarly, a resident DJ at Lipgloss under the name option4, got to see world-renowned turntablist A-Trak in a room of about forty people at South by Southwest a few years ago, and catching that act in such an intimate venue blew his mind. “Then I started thinking about it,”…
Update 11/22/11: The suspense has ended: Five Iron Frenzy reunites, posts new song, announces plans for new album due in 2013! Oh those crazy Five Iron Frenzy kids. What will they do next? They have something planned. Something big, evidently. And whatever it is, it’s happening tomorrow (uh, make that…
While the practice of taking Reagan-era hard rock anthems, turning them inside out and remodeling them into something that even their own parents couldn’t pick out in a lineup is not exactly a new concept (Richard Cheese, anyone, or even Mark Kozelek, to an extent?), it can sometimes be entertaining…
In a report filed earlier this morning by Charlie Amter at the Hollywood Reporter focusing on the mainstream explosion of electronic music in this country, Insomniac president and CEO Pasquale Rotella revealed that the local edition of Electric Daisy Carnival won’t be happening next year. “We couldn’t gross enough [there]…
Congrats to Cameron Das-Knight. She and a guest will be our guests at tomorrow night’s show. Thanks for the other entries! Following an appearance at Bisco Inferno this past summer, Doug Appling, the Portland-based downtempo producer who makes music under the name Emancipator, returns to Colorado tonight for a four-night…
Update: Monday, November 21: Photos from PANTyRAiD at the Fillmore are up now. PANTyRAiD doesn’t tour. So when the act, which is made up Josh Mayer of Glitch Mob and Marty Folb of MartyParty, bring its sexy, dubbed out hip-hop beats to the Fillmore this Saturday, November 19, along with…
This year’s Shoe Shine, the seventh installment of the annual custom sneaker competition hosted by DJ Mu$a, is going down this Saturday night at City Hall with appearances by DJ Premier and homegrown DMC World Champion DJ Vajra. According to DJ Mu$a, one of the event’s organizers, the idea for…
It was a big week for female pop music. Katy Perry, Lady Gaga and Madonna were all in the spotlight this week. Perry’s new video for “The One That Got Away” garnered six million YouTube views over the weekend. The song is her sixth single from Teenage Dream, and if…
We know and love Alert as one of the premiere dubstep producers in Denver; his eerie, horror-film-inspired sound is dubstep at its finest. But we also love it when he breaks into drum-and-bass to mix things up, which is what he does on Necropolis, an EP on the Oblivion Fringe…
Update (11/15/11, 2:18 p.m.): Delicate Steve and Yellow Ostrich, originally slated to appear tonight with Ra Ra Riot, are now playing a last-minute gig at Shugs in Boulder. We also just heard about a couple more new show dates: Young the Giant is coming to the Ogden Theatre on Febuary…
Devan Blake Jones is originally from California, but he was raised here in Denver. Growing up in a family of musicians, Jones honed his skills in the church and started pursuing his passion for singing in earnest in high school. Now a protégé of Mercury Sauce’s Nathan Reid (Amanda Hawkins,…
Here’s what’s happening in music on the Front Range this week: On the concert front, shows from Rammstein, Kelly Clarkson, Kenny Chesney and Tim McGraw, Kraddy, Peter Frampton, Umphrey’s McGee and Henry Rollins were announced; Caleb Slade, Force Publique, My Body Sings Electric and the Outfit got spins on local…
In hindsight Licensed To Ill — released November 15, 1986 — came to the table with a virtually infallible recipe: Rick Rubin produced the seminal radio-friendly rap album and Russell Simmons had not only signed Beastie Boys to a then baby Def Jam, but was also managing the three white…
After the breakup of his influential underground pop band Archers of Loaf, frontman Eric Bachmann formed Crooked Fingers (due at the Larimer Lounge tonight with Strands of Oak and Ian Cooke) and had a kind of second chapter in his long musical career, one favored by some over the Archers…
