It’s finally official: This past January, we spoke with Gamits mastermind Chris Fogal about getting the old band — which checked out entirely too early, if you ask us — back together again, dude (cue incredibly shoddy Cockney accent). We just received word from our pal Virgil over at Suburban…
Most attempts by the media and authorities to blame music for violence are patently ridiculous. Take those early attempts to pin the Columbine massacre on Marilyn Manson, a performer the shooters didn’t even like. But the mayhem-happy subculture that’s developed around the Insane Clown Posse can’t be so easily dismissed…
Our Rough Mixes entry focusing on 50 Cent in this week’s issue only contained excerpts of our recent conversation with the rapper. In advance of his show tonight at the Fillmore, we’ve posted our entire exchange with the stunningly emaciated MC after the jump…
With the passing of Memorial Day we can finally say summer is here. And with summer comes summer camp, vacations and tours — and how do we get there? We drive. That’s how. This is America, after all. In celebration of seemingly endless sunny days and left-arm tans, we’ve picked…
Ideal Fathers • Vicious Women • Fugitive Kind 05.28.10 | The Wasteland Although the Fugitive Kind from San Francisco may be the same band that former Blatz guitarist Robert Eggplant helped start, the female-fronted five-piece sounded like a more brutal Dead Kennedys fronted by a lead singer with the unfettered…
All right, before when send the Backbeat blog into sleep mode for the long weekend and we commence to chilling hardcore with our kinfolk, filling our bladders with beer flavored beer and our bellies with unreasonable amounts of barbecue, we thought we’d leave you with another delightful clip we stumbled…
As we all prepare to take time out from our hurried lives to remember the brave men and women of the armed forces who fought (and continue to fight) to keep us all free to live our lives as we please, we came up with a list of ten tunes…
We would hate for you to miss out on all the awesome that happens every weekend in our fair city, so we’ve decided to run down five of the best shows in one easy-to-swallow post, with video and audio. Tell us — and the rest of the world — what…
If you’ve been meaning to catch Debajo Del Agua and haven’t done so yet — man! You better get on it. Tomorrow night may be your last chance for a long time. The outstanding ensemble is playing its final show at the Mercury Cafe before embarking on what they’re referring…
A moment of silence is in order for Gary Coleman. This afternoon, the diminutive star of the ’70s-era sitcom Diff’rent Strokes reportedly passed away at the age of 42 from the effects of a brain hemorrhage he suffered earlier this week. Not only did Coleman provide endless laughs as Arnold…
For the second week in a row, album sales reached their lowest point in the history of the SoundScan era. “Indie” bands, meanwhile, continue to chart unexpectedly high: This week, The Black Keys are number three, Band of Horses is number seven and LCD Soundsystem is number ten. But these…
As people who think about, talk about, listen to and make music, the most common question we encounter is, “What are you listening to right now?” So whether you’re looking for recommendations, trying to get a feel for our individual sensibilities, or are just curious, we’ve compiled a list of…
You know Master Chief? Star of the Halo franchise, which is one of the biggest video game properties on Earth (or anywhere else)? Well, did you ever expect to see him take his helmet off, turn out to be a goofy-looking German dude and start singing? Neither did we, but…
Somehow, when we spoke with 50 Cent on the phone recently for this week’s Rough Mixes entry, he neglected to mention anything about losing more than fifty pounds recently for an upcoming movie he’s starring in called Things Fall Apart. Weird, you’d think that he’d mention something like that. It’s…
Trace Bundy has quietly been going about his business as a musician for about ten years now. But, really, calling him a musician doesn’t quite do justice to what the guy does with a guitar. With a pioneering finger-style technique that incorporates up to five capos across various strings of…
Got your tickets to the Westword Music Showcase yet? Yeah? Nice work! Here’s some news just for you: We’re throwing a very special VIP pre-party just before the Showcase on Thursday, June 17, featuring BoomBox, who will be playing a private DJ set, Ginger Perry and Peter Black. If you’ve…
Click play to witness the awe-inspiring trailer for the 1978 Ozploitation obscurity Stunt Rock. The band Sorcery (owners of one of the worst Wikipedia entries ever) delivers its wizard-filled brand of prog rock. Australian director Brian Trenchard-Smith delivers a buttload of stunts and a meager plot, about an Australian stuntman…
Wherever he is right now, Nick Madson has got to be breathing a huge sigh of relief. Thanks to Brian Corman, who lifted part of his valedictorian speech at Columbia University last week directly from Patton Oswalt’s “Physics for Poets” bit (38:38 above), when the random doucher category comes up…
The Disco Biscuits aren’t just about the jam scene – this year’s installment of their summer music festival Camp Bisco will feature, among many others, LCD Soundsystem, Method Man, Ghostface Killah & Raekwon and Denver’s own Pretty Lights. The Biscuits have actually been incorporating electronics in their music since their…
In the year 2000, I heard my first Outkast album, Stankonia. You’ll have to excuse my sheltered existence — being a small-time kid from a small mountain town didn’t exactly lend itself to being on the cutting edge…
Once upon a time not all that long ago, there was a group of badasses from Boulder who played rock and roll like the past three decades had never happened. Those boys, still in high school, rocked the socks right off their fans. Literally. Every time Rose Hill Drive played…
Just a month ago, Chez Cirque Dueling Pianos opened in the Landmark project in Greenwood Village. Now Wild Ivories, another dueling piano bar, is slated to open Friday, June 4, in the former Buca di Beppo space at 1400 Market Street. Caz Bzdek, who’s performed at Sing Sing and the…
