Hot on the heels of a profile in 5280 magazine, nightclub impresario Regas Christou has made some real news: He’s filed suit against Beatport, Brad Roulier, Beta and AM Only. While we haven’t had a chance to pore over the entire brief, which was filed yesterday in U.S. District Court,…
Tonight at Forest Room , in conjunction with the fine folks at Speaker Snacks, the members of Snake Rattle Rattle Snake are hosting a low-key viewing party for their new video, Dead Men’s Words, directed by local director extraordinaire Vincent Comparetto (Gamits, Planes Mistaken for Stars, Ian Cooke, Hot IQs)…
This item’s a little close to home, but the news is too noteworthy not to share: The Fire Drills have a new frontman. The outfit, which features longtime Backbeat contributor Jason Heller, has tapped renowned funnyman and former 29th Street Disciples frontman Ben Roy to take over lead vocals…
A little over a month ago, we wrote about the impending reinvention of The Pirate Signal and reported that frontman Yonnas Abraham would be shortening his own stage name to just Yo, followed by various punctuation, to be determined by the context. Well, now it seems his other outfit, Blackhearts,…
Until now, Charly Fasano’s stories and poems have been available on cassette and CD on Fast Geek Press. Recently, though, he’s made his catalogue available on Bandcamp for free, through January 20. What you’ll get is three albums of nearly Bukowski-esque narratives about the city of Denver, accompanied by some…
Though David Guetta is all the rage these days in terms of house DJs gone mainstream, Mark Knight isn’t too far behind. The U.K. house producer shares production credit with Guetta for “Rock That Body,” one of the bigger tracks this year by the seemingly unstoppable Black Eyed Peas. With…
There were a few changes in the Denver bar and club scene last month, including the opening of Toby Keith’s I Love This Bar & Grill, the Rockstar Lounge and Rock-A-Billies. Read on for our bars and clubs roll call for November:…
NO AGE With Hot White and Lucky Dragons 12.01.10 | Bluebird Theater Hot White was first on stage and discharged its signature shards of angular, off-kilter, eruptive sound. It looked like the trio was more comfortable playing a big stage, and yet Tiana Bernard crossed over from stage right to…
As singer, guitarist and keyboardist for A Shoreline Dream, Ryan Policky helped sculpt that band’s lush “melodipsych” rock. In the Parallel Light, Policky teams up with Eddie Breidenbach, organist for the garage-rock band the Omens, to do something very different from what both players were doing previously. On Evans, the…
Singer-songwriter Julia Bryan’s first full-length release, Still Burning, burns brightest when the powerful simplicity of her voice is isolated from the rest of her band. Songs like “Let You Go” and “Crave” bring these strong solo reverberations to the surface, fluctuating between Bryan’s soft whisper and her wavering howl. No…
Dan Aid is the frontman of White Leather. At first glance, he looks like any other young guitarist, with his blonde wood Gibson with an armful of tattoos. Look a little closer, though, and you’ll notice that he’s not like any other guitarist. The 22-year-old is missing his picking hand…
The Posies (due tonight at The Gothic Theatre) had the good fortune — or bad, depending on your perspective — of being a non-grunge rock band in Seattle that came into its own during the era when, for far too many people, “alternative” became synonymous with “grunge.”…
No Age (due tonight at The Bluebird Theater) isn’t a band that has hit the mainstream yet, but it has enjoyed an unexpected rise to prominence as a noisy pop band, making art grounded in notion of doing things your own way — regardless of whether or not it’s met…
Odam Fei Mud is well known for their samurai inspired kabuki-like performances, which is exactly why we love this flier so much. It’s just so damn metal it hurts. It also gives you a pretty good idea of what to expect from an Odam Fei Mud show at first glance,…
Visual artist and Modern Witch member Mario Zoots inadvertently explained the meaning behind Witch House a few weeks ago, and now Pictureplane, who coined the term, has given us The 13 essential rules of Witch House, which he created at the request of Znaki. We’ve attempted to decipher this edict…
What’s more festive than giving away music? Nothing, as far as we’re concerned, which is why we’re raising our wassail to the Kissing Party and its dark new Christmas song, “Winter in the Pub.” The Kissing Party is generally a summer sort of band. This year’s The Hate Album is…
The most immediately noticeable thing about Kalyn Heffernan is that she’s in a wheelchair. What takes a little more time to absorb and appreciate is that the petite Irish woman in the Timbaland boots and paint-covered electric chair (she’s also a sometime graffiti artist) fashions herself as the real deal…
We love a good riddle, which is how we’re treating this new, totally bonkers video from local visual artist Mario Zoots. The video was made for the Brooklyn band (and incredibly SEO-unfriendly) BL§§D ØU†, and we’ve deemed it a riddle because we have no earthly idea what’s going on here…
So we came across this gem last week at the Roger Waters concert. Although you can’t see it here in the thumbnail to the right, there’s a word bubble that reads: “I need a ticket!” Judging by the fact that we found this elaborately scrawled piece of cardboard abandoned and…
In conjunction with the band’s Second Spring EP-release show, which took place this past Saturday at the hi-dive, the Centennial posted the platter for free download. We spoke with Patrick Meese last week about the new project — which also includes his wife, Tiffany, and brother Nathan — and the…
Colorado Springs’ slide guitar-playing bluesman Grant Sabin is truly a throwback. The multi-instrumentalist’s baby face contradicts both his gruff voice and his repertoire, which includes not only his own modern work, but tributes to Son House and Jimi Hendrix, as well…
Things just keep getting worse for media pirates. In the last year, we’ve seen Google tackle music blogs, Limewire go the way of the dodo, and Pirate Bay’s appeal thwarted. Now the U.S. government is getting involved. Last week, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) seized domains from Torrent-Finder, OnSmash.com, RapGodfathers.com,…
