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Subject: Christopher Jak

  • Tip Sheet: Ride Your Bike

    April 2, 2008
  • One Tree Hill becoming defacto repository of Denver music

    This just in: TV is the new radio. Another area artist has had a song placed on One Tree Hill, the CW network's benchmark teen serial. When Tim Hanauer's new tune, "Miss," airs this Monday, January 12, he will join a growing list of local luminaries whose songs have already aired, Dan Craig, Born in the Flood and Christopher Jak. Some soundtrack supervisor somewhere clearly has a great set of flappers on 'em and a healthy jones in the bones for the MHC. Oh, and since having one song played on t

    January 9, 2009
  • Jessica Sonner lands song on Big Love

    Photo: Jason GaskinsOnce upon a time not all that long ago, Denver seemed like it was isolated from the rest of the world, with musicians making great music that, with a few notable exceptions, the rest of the world just wasn't privy to. (Granted, some of the more cynical among us still contend that's still the case.) These days, though, it almost seems like every other week that Denver artists are licensing thier songs for the big screen and the idiot box, from the countless tracks Reed Foehl h

    February 19, 2009
  • Moovers & Shakers 2008: Backbeat scribes weigh in on their favorite local releases of the year

    December 18, 2008
  • Moovers and Shakers 2007

    Backbeat scribes sound off on their favorite local releases of the year.

    December 20, 2007
  • Moovers and Shakers 2007

    Backbeat scribes sound off on their favorite local releases of the year.

    December 27, 2007
  • The Heyday Enters Its Prime

    This young quintet hits a sweet spot with its effervescent power pop.

    September 27, 2007
  • Coles Whalen

    Nothing Is Too Much
    Iconic Records

    August 9, 2007
  • Growing Ivey

    Melissa Ivey's career is poised to climb sky-high.

    April 13, 2006
  • All Mixed Up

    The year's best local music becomes the soundtrack of our lives.

    December 25, 2003
  • Dialed in: This week's local music radio playlists

    Here what the area's local-centric specialty radio shows were playing this week. We're currently tracking the playlists a number of different shows, including Radio 1190's long-running Local Shakedown, KTCL's Locals Only, the Colorado Sound, which originates at KRFC and is re-broadcast all over Colorado, the Colorado Wave, which is syndicated on a number of stations across the country, the Mountain Home Grown show and our most recent addition, KCSU's Loco Locals. See the full playlists posted af

    May 5, 2009
  • MP3 Freeloader: The Nautical Mile Sunday, July 5 at hi-dive

    Abbi McCouryThere is definitely a critical mass of precocious radio-friendly pop rock bands along the front range. Add Boulder-by-way-of-Ft Collins band Nautical Mile to the rapidly expanding roster of bands vying for your attention. Featuring Rachel Cummings providing the frontman, er, frontwoman duties (and doing a damn fine job I might add), along with the young but refreshingly polished supporting cast of guitarist James Anderson, drummer Austin Rosen, guitarist Jake Putnicki and bassist Zac

    June 30, 2009