Producer/rapper Mr. Dean (aka Dean Lopez) has spent the last ten years making music and honing his craft. He says that his faith and the support of others — including area churches and their flock — have served to keep him encouraged and focused on his path, which is to…
Local ladies vying to be the cover girl for Lotus Nightclub group’s 2011 swimsuit calendar competed on September 15 at Suite 200. Kate Levy was in the dressing room and brings back these photos. File under nightlife, and most of these are OK to view at work, if your boss…
How cool is this week’s flier pick? To really see the awesome level of detail on this puppy, you need the ginormous file we received — scroll down to see a larger version…
T-Model Ford is sweet tea spiked with moonshine — something simple and sweet, but with a hell of a kick. In the late 1990s, Fat Possum Records discovered him and put out his first album, Pee-Wee Get Your Gun. Since then, he’s recorded five more albums, including his latest, I’m…
Okay, we all have some skeletons in our closet, shit we dig — be it music, movies or television shows — that we’d just as soon nobody else knew about. “Guilty pleasures” is what most people term these sort of inclinations. Well, here at Backbeat, there’s no shame in our…
Titus Andronicus is frightfully serious about punk rock. The group of well-read, New Jersey-bred twenty-somethings recently released The Monitor, a concept album about the Civil War that contains spoken-word, era-appropriate interludes, male-female call-and-response, and three track punk suites that can individually go on for as long as fourteen minutes. And…
Last year, we listed a bunch of reunions we’d like to see, and on that list was the Dismemberment Plan. Not that we had anything to do with this, but it looks like the band is back together and planning a few shows and a re-release of their fantastic LP…
We’re sure you’ve heard by now that Beavis & Butt-head, the staple of ’90s-era MTV, is returning in a new series to help break up the monotony of the reality-show programming choices on the network. While MTV hasn’t yet officially confirmed what the NY Post reported two months ago, the…
Did you find your soulmate this past weekend at Red Rocks? A few people might have, had that special person not scampered away before phone numbers or texts were exchanged. Sigh. If you didn’t find the face of your vanishing love in our slide show, you might have hit up…
PARAMORE Tegan and Sara • New Found Glory • Kadawatha 09.13.10 | Red Rocks Amphitheatre, Morrison view full slide show While this year’s installment of the Honda Civic Tour felt more like an obscene barrage of advertisements (complete with a pamphlet about credit-building that targeted a very young audience), the…
Killers frontman Brandon Flowers is hitting the road this fall in support of his solo debut, Flamingo, which hits stores today on Island. He’ll be at the Ogden Theatre on Thursday, November 18. Tickets ($30) go on sale Saturday, September 18 at 10 a.m. Another frontman heading out on tour…
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…
While there weren’t any clear winners across the board at local record stores for the week ending September 12, !!!’s Strange Weather Isn’t It made it into the top ten at Albums on the Hill and at Wax Trax. Elsewhere, Interpol’s self-titled album, released last week on Matador, took the…
A big shout-out goes to Gamits bassist Scott Weigel for unwittingly creating one of the more rock-and-roll moments we’ve witnessed in recent memory. Toward the end of the Gamits’ set this past weekend at night two of Suburban Home Records’ fifteenth-anniversary party at 3 Kings Tavern, Weigel — who had…
One of the most anticipated albums in local hip-hop circles this fall is Dispensary Music, the long-awaited full-length collaboration between Whygee and Foe, slated to drop tomorrow on iTunes.The collaboration between these two rappers was inspired by sporadic features on various songs in the past and the undeniable chemistry they…
Apparently, hating on hipsters is an international phenomenon, as this video from the U.K. clearly shows. Although they never use the word “hipster,” preferring instead the much more straightforward “dickhead,” it’s obvious within five seconds of the start of the song what the target is…
Since its grand opening two years ago at its original LoDo location at 19th and Wazee, Family Affair has helped hold down the Denver streetwear scene. Co-owners Jason Ngo and Donovan Kahler have created an innovative storefront that gives cats the opportunity to get a fresh fade, pick up some…
Tennis • Flashlights • Gauntlet Hair • Vitamins 09.10.10 | Larimer Lounge, Denver If its last three albums are any indication, Vitamins seem to reinvent their sound every year or so. The band’s latest material has the foursome stretching out quite a bit. While Vitamins has always been an experimental…
Ah, Scumbag Sundays, just how your mother imagined you spending the Lord’s Day. Photographer Aaron Thackeray brings back these photos from the Shag Lounge (830 15th Street) on Sunday night, September 12, 2010: View full slideshow…
You might have already read our review of STS9’s Friday night show at Red Rocks, and now you can check out photos from the second night of their stay at Red Rocks. Photographer Aaron Thackeray brings back these pictures from the concert. See a full slideshow here: Sound Tribe Sector…
Nothing like this sort of news to completely take your legs out from under you, a staggering dose of reality to remind us all how precious and painfully short life truly is. It’s with the utmost sadness and the heaviest of hearts that we bring you news of the passing…
SOUND TRIBE SECTOR 9 With guests Thievery Corporation and Alex B 09.10.10|Red Rocks Amphitheatre The Red Rocks lots were understandably mobbed before Friday night’s sold-out STS9 show; the atmospheric improvisational group is always a huge draw in Denver, and the act proved why it continues to sell out shows on…
