HALLOW FREAK’N WEEN Markus Shulz • Richard Vission • John O’Callaghan • Icey Dragon • Trajikk • Kostas • Fury + Dino • DJ Bl3nd and more 10.30.10 | 1STBANK Center See Hallow Freak’n Ween slideshow Lights, costumes, candy — action! Hallo Freakn’ Ween burst out of its dark, haunted…
LEFTOVER SALMON With Great American Taxi 10.31.10 | Fillmore Auditorium Read interview with Vince Herman Boulder’s Leftover Salmon doesn’t play together very often these days — but when they do, Vince Herman, Drew Emmitt, Greg Garrison, Bill McKay and Jeff Sipe are guaranteed to deliver a good time. The guys…
THE GLITCH MOB With Beats Antique & Prefuse 73 10.31.10 | Fillmore Auditorium LA’s Glitch Mob comprises three members — DJs edIT, Boreta and Ooah (founding member Kraddy left last year) — who use laptops and MIDI controllers to create the hip-hop influenced, bass-driven electro that keeps bodies movin’ on…
THE COOL KIDS With Air Dubai • DJ Wushu • Shor-T • CobraConda 10.30.10 | Bar Standard On Saturday night, Bar Standard hosted a parade of ghouls, Gagas, rock stars and Cool Kids — er, make that The Cool Kids. The doors opened at Bar Standard just as the line…
WEEN 10.31.10 | 1STBANK Center The scene captured the sheer surrealism of Ween’s Halloween show at the 1STBANK Center in Broomfield: Toward the end of the band’s three-hour performance, Mickey Melchiondo — aka Dean Ween — belted out “The Blarney Stone” with gusto, his vocals unencumbered by the massive bunny…
TRANSCONTINENTAL/INTER-DIMENSIONAL HAUNTEDEST HOUSE With Page 27 • No Funeral • Solypsis • Syndrome of a Down Hardcore Teenage Vampire Pussy 10.30.10 | Rhinoceropolis “Are they playing in there?” commented some random person next to me at Rhinoceropolis last night. Yes, they’re playing. Someone is anyone. “Who” is anyone’s guess. But…
Vince Herman is going to be insanely busy this weekend, between playing with Great American Taxi alongside Drew Emmitt Band in support of troubadour Todd Snider at the Gothic tonight, and then doubling it up tomorrow night by playing as both the opening act with Taxi and the headliner with…
Yonnas Abraham of The Pirate Signal has been busy revamping the look and feel of his group, adding a new DJ and guitarist, along with a ton of new material. A new album titled, You’re Always Leaving Me, is in the works and due out sometime after the first of…
In conjunction with tonight’s DIY or Die Fest in Boulder, Gangcharger is releasing “All My Shirts Are Black” from its album, The Metal Sun EP for free download. No better way to get pumped for this thrashy Halloween garage gathering than with some free music, right? The song hasn’t made…
Update: Contest is over. We picked a winner. Congratulations to Bethany O’Donnell. She and a guest will be our guests for the show. Correct answer was indeed Sonny Kay. Thanks to everyone else who entered. Keep an eye out for more great Backbeat giveaways. While we’re certain that even if…
Halloween is almost upon us. Have you decided what you’re dressing up as yet this weekend? No? What the heck are you waiting for? Better get on the stick. Clock’s ticking. All the good costumes have most likely been snapped up by now. Lucky for you, we’ve come up with…
Even though Travis Egedy (aka Pictureplane), the dude behind the heady party Real is a Feeling is currently on tour with Sleigh Bells (who came through last Saturday), the show — or dance party, rather — must go on. So, as a “pre-pre” event to the Halloween weekend, resident DJs…
FUTURE SIMPLE PROJECT With Shiba, Marcus Whaley, Omega 10.28.10 | The Other Side Typically, Thursday night shows tend to be hit-or-miss. Sometimes you get so-so acts that are not quite ready to headline on the weekend, and sometimes you get lucky and catch a show like the one last night…
The theremin is a choice instrument for making spooky Halloween sounds. Case in point: this collection of theremin cover songs, in which a slew of popular tunes immediately become significantly more creepy after being filtered through the completely awesome but frightening device. It’s one of our favorite instruments and has…
GARY NUMAN With Blackcell 10.28.10 | Gothic Theatre, Denver, CO Local IDM/experimental electronic duo Blackcell kicked off this show with synths and maybe drum machines and computers as sequencers. As deeply textured percussion filled the room, various other generated noises created a techno-organic melody occasionally punctuated by mechanistic vocals. Visually,…
Remember Furbies? The Thermals do, and as the band crosses the country on tour for its latest album, Personal Life, they’ve developed a penchant for the fuzzy talking beings with batteries that never die. Using Twitter as a conduit to their fans — and request Furbies (and weed) — the…
For nearly thirty years, Mickey Melchiondo’s been making music under a moniker. As Dean Ween, one of the eponymous creative forces behind Ween, Melchiondo’s carved out an ambitious musical niche since founding the band with Aaron Freeman – aka Gene Ween – in the 1980s. In advance of Ween’s Halloween…
Lest it seem like The Chain Gang of 1974 was the only Denver band rocking the absolute shit out of NYC last week, we’ve received visual confirmation that Alan Andrews and company, better known collectively in these parts as the Photo Atlas, were setting off sparks at the Pure Volume…
GODSMACK With Five Finger Death Punch • Drowning Pool 10.27.10 | 1STBANK Center Last night at 1STBANK Center, we sent Eric Gruneisen, one our resident shutterbugs into the belly of the beast, a stacked triple-bill headlined by Godsmack, featuring Drowning Pool and Five Finger Death Punch, lead by Denver native…
GOGOL BORDELLO Forro in the Dark 10.27.10 | Boulder Theater, Boulder, CO In some regards, a Gogol Bordello show is kind of like sex: It’s a sweaty and exhausting experience, one that you can’t really fully comprehend until you’re balls-deep in it. Sure, you can sneak peeks at your dad’s…
Gary Numan may best be remembered by the masses for “Cars,” — a song that was once swept into those inaccurate time capsules known as generic “Greatest Hits of The ’80s” compilations that used to be sold on television. But the truth is, the song came from an entire album…
Hollywood has been fascinated with the idea of punk rockers since the word was originally coined in the ’70s. It’s a rare case that they get it right, and it’s even more amazing that nobody has devoted any significant time looking at the ways Hollywood has destroyed, showcased, revered and…
