Christopher Jak

Tip Sheet: Ride Your Bike

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 i ... More >>

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 ... More >>

Moovers & Shakers 2008: Backbeat scribes weigh in on their favorite local releases of the year

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 ... More >>

Moovers and Shakers 2007

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

Moovers and Shakers 2007

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

The Heyday Enters Its Prime

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

Coles Whalen

Nothing Is Too Much
Iconic Records

Growing Ivey

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

All Mixed Up

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

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 Colo ... More >>

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 d ... More >>

Heavy Rotation, our top spins for the week of December 7, 2009

​As music critics -- and people who generally think about, talk about, listen to and make music -- the most common question we get asked (and ask each other, for that matter) is, "What are you listening to right now?" The pervasiveness of this query is precisely what inspired Heavy Rotation. For t ... More >>

Heavy Rotation, our top spins for the week of December 14, 2009

​As music critics -- and people who generally think about, talk about, listen to and make music -- the most common question we get asked (and ask each other, for that matter) is, "What are you listening to right now?" The pervasiveness of this query is precisely what inspired Heavy Rotation. For t ... More >>

Dialed In: This week's local music radio playlists

Here what the area's local-centric specialty radio shows were spinning this week. We're currently tracking the playlists a number of different shows including, Radio 1190's Local Shakedown, KTCL's Locals Only, the Colorado Sound, which originates at KRFC and is re-broadcast all over Colorado, 99.5 t ... More >>

Listen to "Still Time," the first Bop Skizzum song featuring the act's new lead singer, Julie Almeria

Aimee Giese​Remember last month when we introduced you to Bop Skizzum's new singer, Julie Almeria? She made her live debut last month at Cervantes' when Skizzum warmed up for Fishbone. Shortly after that gig, the band was slated to head up to the Blasting Room to record some of the new materia ... More >>