Best Coast

See Cold War Kids and Good Old War for free this August at Chipotle's Cultivate Festival

After a damp, chilly edition of its annual Cultivate Fesitval last year featuring Best Coast, Okkervil River, Tennis and Group Love, Chipotle is bringing its free shindig back to City Park -- and it's moved it up a couple months, which means the weather is most likely going to be more favorable. Se ... More >>

The five biggest sellouts at SXSW

SXSW is not a music festival so much as it is an experiment in excess. If Coachella is a glass of water that keeps getting bigger until it more resembles a kiddie pool, then SXSW is a flood with a neglected cup somewhere in the middle. The natural result is rampant crowds and ever more rampant lame ... More >>

Backbeat writers sound off on the year's best national albums

See also: Moovers and Shakers 2012: Backbeat writers praise the year's best local albums

Dan Boeckner of Divine Fits on being inspired by the sprawl of L.A. but put off by $5 cupcakes

Diving Fits formed when Britt Daniel of Spoon and Dan Boeckner formerly of Wolf Parade got together with their friend Sam Brown of New Bomb Turks. The music that came out of that union was a kind of power pop infused with a strong electronic undercurrent, like something that could have happened in t ... More >>

Backbeat's top five spins: This is what we're listening to this week. What's on your playlist?

As people who think about, talk about, write about, listen to and make music, it shouldn't be surprising to find that the most common (and mutually favorite) topic of conversation among us is the same: "What are you listening to right now?" Stick a quarter in us, and, boy, wouldn't you know it, off ... More >>

Culinary Calendar for the weekend: Cultivate Festival, special beer tappings and more

Happy Friday! There's a full plate of appetizing events to look forward to once this work week is done. Here's a taste of what's on the culinary calendar:

10 things to do for $10 (7 free!) this weekend, October 5-7

October is finally here, and that means pumpkin beer, butternut squash soup and Halloween-themed events all month. But you won't have to fork over a ton of cash to get in on the fun. We've rounded up ten events this weekend that all cost less than $10, from people-watching at a zombie dash to seeing ... More >>

The ten best concerts this weekend: October 5-7

Welcome to the weekend, amigos! Cold enough for you this morning? Yeah, we're feeling all sorts of brrrrrr over here. Only in Colorado can you go from eighty degrees to the thirties in the expanse of a couple of days. Alas, though, there's relief on the horizion, plenty of hot music this weekend to ... More >>

Debate the debate -- and hops -- at Star Bar in this week's beer calendar

Denver is in a frenzy over both tonight's debate and next week's beer-soaked Great American Beer Festival . And sometimes the two obsessions even come together! To check out all the GABF-inspired events, go to our Great American Beer Festival 2012 Calendar of Awesome, which we're updating regularly ... More >>

Good deals for good causes, beer, chiles and more on this week's calendar

There are a variety of events on Denver's plate this week, including an excellent lineup of free music at Chipotle's fledgling Cultivate Festival -- a celebration of "food, ideas and music" in City Park this weekend. Here's a taste of the rest of the board:

Chiptole's Steve Ells named "America's Most Inspiring CEO " by Esquire

Steve Ells was looking for a fast way to make money when he took $85,000 from his father and plunked it into an old Dolly Madison ice cream store near DU, where he served a hip variation on the big burritos he'd seen at taquerias in San Francisco. And the rest is history -- except that the future f ... More >>

See Best Coast, Tennis and Group Love for free at Chipotle's Cultivate Festival in Denver

How about a little Best Coast on your burrito with a side of Tennis? While this sounds more like a dish (see what we did there? uh-huh, clever, us) suited for summer than fall, props are nonetheless due to the talent coordinators Chipotle's Cultivate festival, who put together a rather decent bill. ... More >>

Chipotle brings its Cultivate Festival to Denver in October

Chipotle Mexican Grill got its start in Denver, and in October it will be bringing its hometown a major thank-you present: the free Cultivate Food, Ideas & Music Festival. The one-day festival, which Chipotle introduced last year in Chicago, drew 17,000 people to a city park for demonstrations by c ... More >>

Gotye, Silversun Pickups, 3OH!3, Matisyahu and Justin Bieber lead this week's shows

While the concert announcements have started tapering off a bit, there's still some big shows that have been announced, including Gotye's Red Rocks show in August, Channel 93.3's Big Gig in September featuring Silversun Pickups, 3OH!3, the Hives, the Wombats and others at Red Rocks. Also, Matisyahu ... More >>

Photos: Best Coast at the Fox, 5/26/12

Last night Bethany Cosentino and her Best Coast bandmates played at the Fox Theatre in Boulder with Jeff the Brotherhood. Brandon Marshall, one of Backbeat's resident shutterbug, was on hand for the show and brought us back some great pictures of the show. Page down to see some of the highlights fro ... More >>

Weekend's best live bets: Signal Path, Mancub, Rockie, Best Coast, Jolie Holland and more

Ah, yes, welcome to the weekend! Been a long week, and now you're about to get to enjoy a long weekend. As always, a plethora of enticing options this weekend and it's another good mix: Tonight, a trio of local release parties featuring Signal Path, Mancub and Rockie kick things into gear, along wit ... More >>

Rise Against, Peter Gabriel, Ben Harper, Passion Pit, Alabama Shakes lead this week's new shows

And it don't stop. Another batch of great shows announced this week, including Rise Against, who's due for a pair of back-to-back nights at the Fillmore in September, as well as Peter Gabriel, who will be performing his album So in its entirety a few nights later at Red Rocks. Wait, there's more: th ... More >>

Fox Theatre in Boulder closing for two months this summer to make repairs to the roof

See Also: Fox Theatre celebrates its twenty-year anniversary tonight with the Funky Meters This summer, fresh on the heels of it's twenty-year anniversary, the Fox Theatre will close its doors for two months to make necessary repairs to the venue's roof. "It's an old roof," explains Shannon Bock, p ... More >>

Max Bemis of Say Anything: "We're stripping away the loud, distorted guitars and the redundant self-destructive imagery"

On March 13, Say Anything, the indie rock band that came of age in the 2000s, released its sixth album, Anarchy, My Dear. The band soon launched its tour, which will hit the Mile High City this Friday, March 30, at the Summit Music Hall. In advance of the show, we spoke with frontman Max Bemis about ... More >>

Mile Highlights: Denver/Boulder area concert news, local radio playlists and top album sales

​ Here's what's hot this week in music on the Front Range: On the concert front, new shows featuring Madonna, Jeff Mangum, the String Cheese Incident, Jane's Addiction, B.B. King and more were announced; Lola Black, Fresh Breath Committee and the Autumn Film got spins on local radio; and recent a ... More >>

Nearly two years after her American Idol run, Lilly Scott is set to release her debut with Varlet

Lilly Scott​Nearly two years after she charmed the world as an American Idol contender on the ninth season of the Fox flagship, Lilly Scott is thriving creatively in Denver, fronting her own band, Varlet. The group has completed its debut effort, The Drifter, and set a release date for Saturda ... More >>

Wavves playing October 6 at Moe's

​The folks at Moe's Original BBQ just announced that San Diego-based surf rock act Wavves, who's on the road in support of its latest effort, Life Sux, will be at the venue on Thursday, October 6.

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Best Coast and Wavves play February 14 in Boulder