ALOE BLACC AND THE GRAND SCHEME With Air Dubai • Maya Jupiter • Foodchain 11.10.10 | City Hall Amphitheater I’d been seeing posters all over town advertising Aloe Blacc and the Grande Scheme’s show at City Hall with Air Dubai and FoodChain. What those posters failed to mention — and…
We first got a glimpse of the upcoming Warlock Pinchers film a few months ago. At the time, we weren’t entirely certain when it would arrive. Now we know: Just in time for the Warlock Pinchers New Year’s Eve show at the Gothic Theatre, Eyeosaur Productions is slated to release…
Savoy, one of the brighter stars to emerge from the Boulder scene in a while, moved to New York a few months ago. The band’s sound, which pairs a live drummer with tightly-knit electronica, found a devout audience here, and by the time the group left, it was regularly selling…
For this week’s installment of the Hot Congress residency at Meadowlark, the group is bringing out the big guns, with Hindershot being joined by Vitamins, Kissing Party, and Luke Hunter James-Erickson. For the entire month of November, the collective and record label has handpicked each weekly bill, pulling from their…
Black Magicians From the Mountains of Mars is a bit of a mouthful. And an eyeful, for that matter. And while not everyone from that band migrated over to Skully Mammoth, the colossal sound sure did. Someone reaching for a genre descriptor for the kind of music made by these…
“Pleroma” sounds like a collage take on IDM, post-rock and dream pop, like if Geogaddi-era Boards of Canada blended together bits of sound ideas from Sigur Rós and Radiohead. On Redefinition, Dan Barnett has crafted a melancholy yet expansive set of music that suggests night travel by air over an…
If this is a real record — meaning it didn’t come as a free gift with my flare jeans purchase from Wet Seal in 1995 — then it’s rather alarming that someone would make something like this in 2010. This EP is filled with brain-jarring cliché after flippant cliché, beyond-formulaic…
For more than fifteen years, Ian O’Dougherty was in Uphollow. Early on, Uphollow was something of a melodic punk-rock band, but by the late ’90s, it had evolved into an act that included a lot more nuance and conscious craft in its songwriting. Around the turn of last decade, Ian…
If the DJs at HallowFreakn’Ween didn’t offer enough creepy, haunted-house-worthy tracks for you, then you won’t want to miss Voodeux Live (due at Beta this Saturday, November 13). Comprising two well-respected producers — James Watts, AKA KiloWatts, a downtempo/breakbeats/techno expert, and Tanner Ross, who creates techno and house tracks –…
The itchy-O Marching Band will take its, ahem, marching antics to cable TV tonight for an episode of the DIY Network’s Disaster House, a show that’s best known for demonstrating unusual techniques to destroy homes and then showing you how to fix them back up. Tonight’s episode, which airs at…
The Noid isn’t just that pesky pizza-chilling character from old Domino’s commercials from the ’80s. It’s a region of England from which the neo-soul garage-rock band known as the Heavy hails. Fronted by the charismatic Kelvin Swaby, the band came together in its current form as a quartet when Swaby…
At this point, Daytrotter has amassed enough recordings from the Colorado-based acts that have stopped by The Horseshack in downtown Rock Island, Illinois, that it could release an incredibly compelling double-disc compilation, complete with the custom illustrated liner art of Johnnie Cluney. Lord knows, from Young Coyotes to Woodsman, whose…
Kanye has gotten a lot of flack for doing some absolutely wonky things. Most recently, a photo of his junk mysteriously appeared on the Internet, followed by word that he copped the microphone on a Delta flight last week to perform for the cabin, and last night, he evidently had…
Once upon a time, DJs played records, and going to the club was a dressy affair. Enter Double//Shadow, a flashy, free party happening this Saturday night at Beauty Bar, hosted by musician besties James Holden (of Astra Moveo) and James Yardley (of Snake Rattle Rattle Snake.) The night aims to…
In this week’s issue, the Rough Mixes entry focusing on Eolian, the progressive-rock project led by Ian O’Dougherty (Uphollow, Ian Cooke, TaunTaun) and featuring occasional Backbeat contributor Sean Merrell (tintin, Ian Cooke, A Shoreline Dream) and Adam Edwards (A Shoreline Dream), barely scratched the surface of our recent conversation with…
Rock posters have a long and storied history with silk-screening. It has been a tradition in poster and flier design for as long as the promotion of rock concerts has existed. It’s this very fact that warms our hearts when we see local shows with silk-screened posters, and this week…
In an age where “vintage polaroid” is considered a look, Aloe Blacc’s throwback style isn’t much to write home about. But its not Blacc’s retro-cool appearance that makes him stand out — its his stunning, soulful voice and desire to mobilize social change through his music that deserves the time…
Ryan Hyde doesn’t come off as nervous, worried or scared. In contrast to his chosen stage name, Anxious, the MC actually seems pretty confident. So much so, in fact, that he says he will battle anybody, anytime — and win. So far, he has the record to prove it. He’s…
Sad news: We’ve received word that Light Travels Faster has reached its natural conclusion, a lot sooner than many around here would have liked. Those who caught the band at last month’s Gathering of the Clouds should count themselves lucky, as that gig unfortunately appears to have been its last…
After selling out shows at Red Rocks and the Ogden Theatre this past summer, Philadelphia’s Disco Biscuits is slated to return to the area for back-to-back nights at the Boulder Theater on Thursday, January 13 and Friday, January 14, followed by two more nights at the Ogden Theatre on Saturday,…
Small Craft on a Milk Sea, Brian Eno’s Warp debut released last week, claimed the top spot at Albums on the Hill and rounded out the top five at Twist & Shout for the week ending November 7. Lil Wayne’s I Am Not a Human Being, meanwhile, continues to hold…
The Dupree sisters — and brother, and a cousin — have been playing music since elementary school, starting with performances in their parents’ Christian coffeehouse in Texas over a decade ago. As Eisley (, due tonight at the Bluebird Theater with Ives the Band, Christie DuPree and Politic), the band…
