Sorry about the headline. We just couldn’t resist. Also considered: “Vinyl is officially dead.” At any rate, if you’re looking forward to spending your Tuesday afternoon writing out your last will and testament, then we have a suggestion for you: Have your ashes converted into vinyl by And Vinyl…
While last week’s big announcement included Phish’s three-night stand at the 1STBANK Center, a number of other shows were recently announced, most which are on are sale now. In addition to Kottonmouth Kings, Joshua Radin, Combichrist and Soulfly, lead by former Sepultura frontman Max Cavalera, are all slated to hit…
And the waves of exposure just keep rolling in for Candy Claws. Fresh after being written up in the latest issue of Spin – as we mentioned recently, the magazine included a track from the group amongst its Songs You Must Hear Now list — the Fort Collins-based act was…
Ray LaMontagne’s God Willin’ & The Creek Don’t Rise, released August 17 on RCA, took the top spot at Twist & Shout. Arcade Fire’s The Suburbs continues to perform well, while JJ Grey & Mofro Georgia Warhorse, released last week on Alligator Records, claimed the second slots at Albums on…
With the regular football season getting ready to kick off, Brett Favre has once again pulled a fast one and decided to return for one more season. Sure, he can say retired; he just can’t seem to stay retired. And he’s not alone. In the music world, every year it…
With Denver Does Denver now safely in the rearview, we’ve been pondering what an expansion of the concept beyond the Colorado borders might look like. More to the point, we’ve been thinking about what some of our dream covers would be and mulling over who might play them and why…
The final EP in the Wentworth Kersey trilogy, ((O)), has arrived and, like its predecessors, it’s a well-wrought selection of dusty, shoegazing ambient Americana. To celebrate its release, Wentworth Kersey have made it very easy for you to get a free copy of the disc. All you have to do…
Cory Casciato wrote in his preview DJ Dave Aude’s show at Beta on Saturday night: A little bit trance, some big, shiny house, and a whole lot of whatever the kids are digging at any given time. The DJ with nearly fifty #1 dance tracks on Billboard, including eighteen in…
DENVER DOES DENVER 08.28.10 | Meadowlark view full slide show This second installment of Denver Does Denver took place on Saturday night at the Meadowlark, both upstairs and downstairs, as well in the Flobots Community Space. The bulk of the acts I caught played in downstairs at the Meadowlark, beginning…
SERAPHIM SHOCK The Siren Project • Lola Black 08.27.10 | Gothic Theatre, Englewood Used to be you could count on the opening bands at a Seraphim Shock show to be pretty awful. But in the last several years, this trend has been bucked. For evidence, you need look no further…
Update, 12:48 p.m., Saturday: We’ve picked our two winners, so congrats to commenting Backbeat readers J Hamby and Wratha, they’re going to see Green Day and AFI tonight. Faithful Backbeat readers, because you kill time ’til quitting time by reading our blog, we are rewarding you on this Friday afternoon…
Ace Miyamoto’s his given name, but he’s known by a few other handles: Acezi, Ronin or just plain Ace, as we know him. Part producer, part MC, part promoter, Ace is involved in many diverse projects that require him to utilize all of the skills listed on his resume. Whether…
The Green Route Festival, taking place tomorrow from 2-11 p.m. at 26th & Walnut, has a pretty stellar local lineup. In case you haven’t seen it, the bill includes the Rouge, Air Dubai, the Still City, the Photo Atlas, Soulaju with DJ Cysko Rokwell, Cavem Moetivation and Jonny 5 of…
Denver Does Denver sounds more salacious than it is — though we’re sure there’s a sexualized metaphor in there somewhere that was intended. If you haven’t heard about it, Denver Does Denver, slated to take place tomorrow night at the Meadowlark, is a rad little show put together by the…
Denver Does Denver, happening this Saturday at Meadowlark and The Flobots Community Space, is a festival promising to cut the local music community apart and glue it back together in ways we’ve never heard before. Folk songs will be auto-tuned, guitars and pedals will stomp out lyrics, and homage will…
We’re pretty sure this week’s video is evidence that demons are real. It purports to be a man singing a song about Jesus that uses a dog metaphor. Hey, kids love dogs, right? Only we’re pretty certain that any child exposed to this will cry, run away and/or refuse to…
BOCUMAST RECORDS RESIDENCY 08.05.10 – 08.26.10 | Lost Lake Over the last month, Lost Lake handed over the booking keys for Thursday nights to Bocumast Records. During that time, the imprint was tasked with scheduling shows and providing rock, all while keeping it fresh — a complicated endeavor, and one…
Last week, John Mellencamp was quoted by Reuters as saying, “the Internet is the most dangerous invention since the atomic bomb.” His argument was two fold, beginning with the destruction of sound quality courtesy of MP3 compression (perhaps, but who the hell has an ear that even notices?) and, more…
Thanks to the absurdly low cost of music and video editing software and an inexhaustible number of people who clearly have too much time on their hands, the Internet has been inundated with mash-ups. Some folks, believe this is a auspicious development for humanity. And while we agree that there…
The Denver Cruisers — the bicycle club open to anyone — stuck a thumb in the eye of Dan Maes last night with its United Nations themed bike ride through the city. Maes, the Republican candidate for governor, made comments earlier this summer that Denver’s participation in the B-Cycle rent-a-bike…
Daytrotter’s love affair with our fine, rectangular state continued and deepened this week. Their latest session, just posted yesterday, is a five-song set from Paper Bird. The session includes “Spit Spot,” “Yellow Sun” and “Riches to Rags” from When the River Took Flight, “Pennies” from Anything Nameless and Joymaking and…
For Cory Eberhard, the liberation of playing reggae hasn’t come solely from the music’s messages of political activism and rebellion. The greater freedom, he says, has stemmed from a much more basic part of Eberhard’s role as the drummer for Dubskin, the reggae outfit he started in Fort Collins three…
