It’s still in beta, but interactive music startup Tuntable.fm has just sealed deals with BMI (Broadcast Music, Inc.) and ASCAP (American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers) to ensure they’ll not just have an extensive catalog of music, but that performers and labels will receive their due from tracks played…
So even though it’s barely in the rearview, we just confirmed the date for next year’s Showcase. Got your calendar? Good. Whip out your red Sharpie and put a big old circle around Saturday, June 23. That’s right: Same weekend next year. Don’t worry, you’ll get plenty of reminders between…
Fresh off winning a pricey EP recording session from Rocky Mountain Recorders at the Westword Music Showcase awards last month, Monroe Monroe has a lot of material just waiting to be recorded. One song, however, has already been cut. It’s called “Subject One,” and it sounds nothing like the band’s…
It is hard to believe Seattle’s Fleet Foxes (playing the Fillmore Auditorium tonight with Alela Diane) was ever known as Pineapple. Luckily, another local band was using the same moniker, forcing the baroque-folk sextet to come up with something else, and thus Fleet Foxes was born…
Behold, Untold Stories, another new periodic feature on Backbeat. As you’ve probably deduced from the name of this feature, Untold Stories will feature first-hand accounts of momentous occasions involving local folks that have never really been highlighted — thus the Untold part of that equation. The inaugural installment comes courtesy…
If it seems like A Shoreline Dream has been rather quiet lately, it’s because it has. But there’s a very good reason for that: The outfit has been hard at work finishing up a brand-new album, Losing Them All to This Time, which is slated for release on September 19…
If you don’t already have plans, there’s a badass bill on Friday night featuring a reunited Babihed (‘memba them?), Little Fyodor & Babushka, Barstool Messiah, Audio Dream Sister and Osyluth. DJ Wild Bill and Pervis the Clown will also be on hand for the festivities. The occasion: It’s the ten…
Update (8/5/11): In honor of Houses two-night run at the hi-dive, which kicks off this evening, we’ve added two more tracks from the band’s eagerly awaited Winter EP below for your streaming pleasure. Enjoy! What a joyous morning this is! Houses has completed work on Winter, the final installment of…
Chances are that unless you’re a big record collector, you haven’t heard the name Alex Steinweiss until now. Steinweiss died on July 18 in Sarasota, Florida at age 94. A designer for Columbia records, Steinweiss invented the creative album cover in the 1940s. Before then, albums were usually drab cardboard…
Bad news for those expecting to see Maceo Parker at the Fox Theatre tonight: The saxophone great will not be performing in Boulder this evening. No word on the reason for the cancellation or when the date will be rescheduled, but Parker offered an apology via Facebook:…
Alela Diane (due tomorrow night at the Fillmore Auditorium with Fleet Foxes) was born in the small town of Nevada City, California, where she got a nudge from her friend Joanna Newsom to perform her solo material for the first time. After issuing her debut album, Forest Parade, in 2003,…
AfterHours Anonymous, Mahesh Presents and Roots Denver have just made a major announcement: Germany’s Dixon will headline an event dubbed Apex: a Journey on Saturday, September 10, in Denver at an undisclosed venue. For those unfamiliar, Dixon operates the Berlin-based Innervisions label and was among Resident Advisor’s top ten DJs…
A Tribe Called Quest is a group that will forever go down as one of the greatest hip-hop groups of all time. And its album, The Low End Theory, is among the game’s best and most influential albums. As we approach the twenty-year anniversary of its release, DJ Mu$a is…
Born as a side project for Casey Crescenzo’s work that didn’t quite fit in with the sound of the Receiving End of Sirens, his post-hardcore band, the Dear Hunter (playing Summit Music Hall tonight with Kay Kay & His Weathered Underground, O’Brother and The Outfit), quickly grew into Crescenzo’s main…
Here’s what’s good in the Mile High City this week: In October, St. Vincent is due at the Boulder Theater, followed by DeVotchKa who also appear there later in the month, as well as the Ogden, and Why? at the Gothic Theater. On local radio, Bop Skizzum, Big Gigantic and…
We’re listening to Selena Gomez right now, but not by choice. Some user from the U.K. is playing it in the room we’re in on Turntable.fm, the newest, coolest music thing to hit the Internet. And yeah, in case you’re wondering, Turntable.fm is every bit as cool as it’s hyped…
In the music industry, leaks seem as inevitable as they are unavoidable these days. Leaks have often forced labels to rush the release of their records months before intended. Such was the case recently with Ninja Tune, the London-based electronic imprint founded by Coldcut and DJ Matt Black, who issued…
When entrepreneur Francois Safieddine started thinking about Chloe, his new venture that opens Thursday, July 21, in the former Ruth’s Chris Steakhouse, 1445 Market Street, he researched what the nightlife crowd was looking for downtown — and wasn’t already being offered. “What my research led me to is there was…
Kyle Person doesn’t look like what most people think of when they think “musician,” and that will probably work well in his favor in the long run. He also doesn’t make music like the average musician. Anyone who’s seen his shows these past few years may have witnessed someone who…
Alela Diane was born in the small town of Nevada City, California, where she got a nudge from her friend Joanna Newsom to perform her solo material for the first time. After issuing her debut album, Forest Parade, in 2003, Diane recorded and self-released her followup, 2004’s The Pirate’s Gospel,…
The artist known as Buckethead is an unusual variant on “guitar hero.” He knows six-string constructs like a salamander knows wet leaves, but few know the face, or identity, of Buckethead (due to his ever-present bucket-shaped hood). Buckethead’s style is forged from the metallic assaults of Slayer and Steve Vai,…
The members of Acrassicauda learned about heavy metal from bootleg tapes they were able to get during the regime of Saddam Hussein. And just like many heavy metal bands in America, the group was accused of worshipping Satan. Except that in Iraq, this meant credible death threats. The trials and…
