Brad Paisley

Grammy Suckfest Celebrates Half Century of Lameness

Delegating Denver #54 of #56: West Virginia

Top 10 Country Albums of 2008

Photo by Michael Alan GoldbergOver the next couple of weeks, Backbeat will feature some Top Ten lists from around the Village Voice Media chain. Click here for previous year-in-review coverage from Backbeat and VVM. Two young blondes with toothy smiles and hard-core work ethics, Taylor Swift and Car ... More >>

Backwash

Goodbye to Ratiocination.

Backwash

A tip of the hat to Aubrey Collins, a country starlet in the making.

Trivial Pursuits

Thirteen weeks of sports and leisure, arts and entertainment, and people and places.

Brad Paisley

Saturday, June 23, Greeley Stampede, Island Grove Park, Greeley, 1-866-464-2626.

Brad Paisley

Wednesday, January 16, Pepsi Center, 303-830-8497.

Taylor Swift

This songstress is the best underage songwriter to emerge from Music Row in decades.

Darrell Scott

Sunday, July 23, Boulder Theater, Boulder, 303-786-7030.

Down-Home Delights

Ten of the best from Nashville and elsewhere.

Buddy Miller

Saturday, August 28, Fillmore Auditorium, 303-830-8497.

Atmosphere, Bat for Lashes, Brad Paisley shows announced

After a killer two-night stint at the Ogden Theatre last year, the hip-hop duo Atmosphere returns will return to these parts Friday, August 15, when the pair headlines Red Rocks. The British group Bat For Lashes, who mezmorized folks at the Larimer Lounge in 2007, will play the Bluebird this time ar ... More >>

The Westword.com blog shortcut, June 10 edition

Photo by Autumn DeWildeBuilt to Spill. You think you're so smart.... Today in Backbeat Online: • Q&A with Built to Spill's Doug Martsch. • Mini Q&A with the Fluid's John Robinson. • A first look at FOE and Karma's "Tic-Toc" video. • Atmosphere, Bat for Lashes, Brad Paisley shows announced. ... More >>

Live Nation offers two-for-one ticket special tomorrow

On Wednesday, July 22, Live Nation is offering buy one, get one free lawn tickets for Fiddler's Green Amphitheatre shows including Creed, Crue Fest II, Def Leppard with Cheap Trick and Poison, Toby Keith with Trace Adkins, Brad Paisley with Dierks Bentley and Jimmy Wayne, and Rod Stewart. The two-fo ... More >>

This Just In: Country Megaticket, Disco Biscuits, Phoenix shows announced

​In addition to a number of shows announced this week, Live Nation is offering the 2010 Country Megaticket, which includes four shows at the Comfort Dental Amphitheatre including, the Country Throwdown featuring Montgomery Gentry, Little Big Town and more on Sunday, June 13, Tim McGraw with Lady A ... More >>

Gary Numan, Bettye LaVette, Brad Paisley shows announced

​Electro-pop legend Gary Numan is making a short sixteen-date trek across North America this fall, which is slated to include a stop at the Gothic Theatre on Thursday, October 28. To commemorate the 30th anniversary of his debut, The Pleasure Principle, Numan will perform the album in its enti ... More >>

Tim Tebow's friar cut enters the Colorado Hair Hall of Fame: A photo gallery

Tim Tebow goes monk.​Tim Tebow's teammates reminded him that he was a rookie by cutting his hair friar-style -- appropriate for such a religious young man. And the cut's catching on, at least as a joke: This morning, the a.m. crew at the Wolf/92.5 FM made a listener do the full Tebow in exchan ... More >>

Five new Muppets that Sesame Street should create to teach kids about food issues

Lily the "food-insecure" muppet.​Sesame Street, the show that has taught several generations of suburban white kids how to ask where the potty is in Spanish, is introducing a new Muppet this Sunday in a special episode about hunger, sponsored by Wal-Mart. Lily, the "food-insecure" Muppet, is ... More >>

Brad Paisley hits the Pepsi Center on January 21 with the Band Perry and Scotty McCrerry

​Just in time for the annual National Western Stock Show, which will be wrapping up around then, Brad Paisley is slated to return to the Mile High City with the Band Perry and freshly minted American Idol winner Scotty McCreery. Tickets for this stop of the Camobunga Tour (don't ask -- we have ... More >>

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

​Here's what's happening in music on the Front Range this week: Brad Paisley's at the Pepsi Center in January, Salt-n-Pepa's at the Gothic in December and Donavon Frankenreiter comes to town in March. Air Dubai, In the Whale, Jen Korte and Saints got spins on local radio. And new and recent re ... More >>

Tim Tebow joins Brad Paisley on stage at the Pepsi Center

Page down for bigger picture, and don't miss Brad Paisley's tourmates Tebowing in the foreground.​Um, so, yeah, you'll be happy to know that the whole Tebow mania thing hasn't died down in the Mile High City. Not in the slightest. Apparently, being utterly eviscerated by the Patriots around th ... More >>

Video: Tim Tebow sings "I'm Still a Guy" with Brad Paisley

Video below.​When Tim Tebow sings solo -- hear him crooning "My God is an awesome God" here -- he's terrible. Clearly, he needs help. And as our Backbeat blog reported, he received it from Brad Paisley Saturday night in Vegas, intoning the title to "I'm Still a Guy" -- because after losing to ... More >>

Review: Brad Paisley at the Pepsi Center, 1/21/12

Eric GruneisenBrad Paisley last night at the Pepsi Center.BRAD PAISLEY @ THE PEPSI CENTER | 1/21/12 It's about three-quarters of the way through "Waiting on a Woman" during Brad Paisley's blues-inflected lead that you arrive at a startling realization, a conclusion that many other far more astute f ... More >>

Video: Tim Tebow wields T-shirt cannon like all-pro on Jimmy Fallon

Video below.​NBC's Jimmy Fallon recently riffed on Tim Tebow-mania by crossing the QB with David Bowie to create...Tebowie. Then, last night, Tebow reconfirmed his sense of humor by appearing on Fallon's show. In the segment on view below, he mocked the host for being "pitchy" during the Tebow ... More >>