So this is a rad perk for touring acts coming through Colorado. Suburban Home Records honcho Virgil Dickerson and our own Andy Thomas have teamed up with Illegal Pete’s to establish the aptly dubbed Starving Artists Program, which is exactly what it sounds like: setting up weary bands on the…
Is your MP3 player suffering from chills, a hacking cough and a distinct lack of new, bass-heavy dance music? Might we suggest a healthy double dose of Dayquill to cure what ails it? Now, before you go cracking a couple of liquigels into your iPod, let us clarify that we’re…
Here’s what the area’s local-centric specialty radio shows were spinning this week. We’re currently tracking the playlists from a number of different shows, including KTCL’s Locals Only, 99.5 the Mountain’s Homegrown Show, The Colorado Sound*, which originates at KRFC and is re-broadcast all over Colorado, and The Colorado Wave, which…
Treeverb • Ross Etherton and the Chariots of Judah 09.17.10 | 3 Kings Tavern, Denver Three years ago, Bright Channel and Red Cloud were two of the highest-profile underground bands in Denver — not to mention the most interesting and consistently compelling live acts in town. Despite having widely disparate…
This magical Internet machine has been up and running for a while now, transmitting music from the ether to our ears using a mix of faerie dust and marketing panache. It seems, however, that there is still a decisive split on what this new mystery machine means for the future…
After selling out a two-night stint at Red Rocks and a show at the Boulder Theater earlier this month, STS9 has announced its return to the area for a three-night stand at the Fillmore Auditorium, from Wednesday, December 29, to Friday, December 31. While tickets for the New Year’s run…
In a couple of weeks at the Gothic, Air Dubai and the Heyday are scheduled to issue their respective new platters at a dual CD-release party. Since both albums are coming out at the same time, the two acts figured they’d also host a dual listening party. Why not, right?…
By the time Five Iron Frenzy played its final show on November 22, 2003, at the Fillmore, it was one of Denver’s most successful acts. From the time the group formed in 1995 until the time it folded nearly a decade later, it built a rabid fan base the old-fashioned…
Throughout the late ’60s, 1601 West Evans was a prime destination for live music, with acts like the Doors, Cream, the Grateful Dead and Van Morrison performing in the space now occupied by PT’s Showclub. Four years ago, rock returned to the building when the folks at Left Nut Entertainment…
As mentioned a few weeks ago, Overcasters have put the finishing touches on their new album, The Whole Sea is Raging, recorded in May with Rick Parker, which they’re preparing to introduce it to us at the Gathering of Clouds, a three-day mini-festival and release party slated to take place…
Just as the last of the Amber Alerts are set to expire, we’ve received word and indication that the members of Rose Hill Drive are emerging from their self-imposed hiatus. Although the act has played a couple of dates recently, for all intents and purposes, it’s been a good year…
Grinderman, which features Nick Cave and three members of the Bad Seeds, claimed the top spot at Albums on the Hill and landed in the top five at Twist & Shout with Grinderman 2, released last week on Anti. The Black Angels’ Phosphene Dream, meanwhile, which also came out last…
The new OK Go video for “White Knuckles” is premiering today, on the Ellen DeGeneres Show, but you don’t have to wait (or watch Ellen); we’ve got you covered. Like the act’s past batch of videos, this one is clever, funny and shot in one continuous take. You’ll like it…
Last week, Deadline reported that Sacha Baron Cohen, of Borat and Ali G fame, is lined up to play Freddie Mercury in an untitled biopic. Although the majority of his work has been in parody, Baron Cohen is a nearly perfect fit, and we don’t doubt his intentions for a…
As you’ve no doubt heard by now, Jersey Shore DJ Pauly D takes over Beta for what is sure to be a sea of hair gel and ubiquitous fist-pumping. Those with more discriminating taste will want to be upstairs in the Beatport Lounge for P.U.N.C.H.I.S., the best weekly underground techno…
DJ Frank E’s ascent continues. With a string of singles already under his belt, including tracks for Flo Rida, Plies, Justin Bieber, T.I. and Gym Class Heroes, it looks like the burgeoning homegown hitmaker is going to have a track on Chris Brown’s forthcoming album. In an exclusive interview on…
We’re no foodies here at Backbeat. We can’t even pretend to be well enough to carry on an semi-intelligent conversation with our Cafe Society co-horts. Despite the fact that we’re still what you would call “husky,” as mom once used to so delicately put it, we have most unsophisticated palate…
Meet G-Dragon. He’s a Korean rapper who seems to be the unholy hell spawn of T Pain, Lady Gaga and Justin Bieber. He’s got Bieber’s androgynous look and hairstyle (albeit in a bleached-blonde model), Gaga’s fashion sense and dance moves and all the overly-AutoTuned goodness of a dozen T-Pain songs…
Guido and guidettes, have you heard the news? Pauly D, the super-creepin’, GTL-in’ cast member from the cultural phenomenon Jersey Shore will be beatin’ up the beat tonight at Beta. Personally, we haven’t been this excited about anything since Walgreens offered two-for-one spray tan in a can. There’s no other…
Performing for the last several years under the moniker Otem Rellik, Toby Hendricks has certainly paid his dues. Living in Fort Collins, he’s developed his craft largely through experimenting at open mikes and performing at shows with indie rock bands. Although his own vocal delivery is heavily influenced by Sole…
In recent years, there’s been a parade of artists refusing to license their tracks, whether it’s been for use in video games, commercials or television shows. Seems like some of these old timers have sticks up their butts when it comes to relinquishing artistic control and just don’t get it…
File this one under the most heartening news we’ve heard all week. Just got word of a benefit concert for the folks affected by the devastating Fourmile Canyon Fire. Presented by KBCO, the aptly dubbed Fourmile Canyon Revival features the String Cheese Incident, Big Head Todd & the Monsters, Yonder…
