Isaac Brock

Denver's best music releases of 2011

Radical Knitting Circle

When Bees No Longer Fly...
Self-released

Paean album release at the hi-dive: Egg shakers and dirty dancing

Bad Weather California. Photos by Kiernan Maletsky​ Paean • Bad Weather California • Mehko & Ocean Birds 04.31.10 | hi-dive Paean spent eighteen months working on its debut full-length, Songs For Us To Sing. Three of the band's six members are siblings, and the album was recorded in a st ... More >>

Last Night: Rachael Pollard at GlobGlobGlob

photo by Marcus HuserRachael Pollard, Doo Crowder, Spoke Shaver, Rotaree, TemplesThursday, March 19, 2009GlobGlobGlobBetter than: Not falling asleep at work, which I'm now certain to do tomorrow.In military operations, planes often fly at low altitudes to avoid radar detection. If that's true in cli ... More >>

Thoughts on Five Songs While I Pretend to Work

photo by Marcus HuserRachael Pollard, Doo Crowder, Spoke Shaver, Rotaree, TemplesThursday, March 19, 2009GlobGlobGlobBetter than: Not falling asleep at work, which I'm now certain to do tomorrow.In military operations, planes often fly at low altitudes to avoid radar detection. If that's true in cli ... More >>

Last Night: The Klaxons and Hot IQs @ The Fox Theater

photo by Marcus HuserRachael Pollard, Doo Crowder, Spoke Shaver, Rotaree, TemplesThursday, March 19, 2009GlobGlobGlobBetter than: Not falling asleep at work, which I'm now certain to do tomorrow.In military operations, planes often fly at low altitudes to avoid radar detection. If that's true in cli ... More >>

Modest Mouse

We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank
Epic

Wolf Parade

Monday, August 28, Fox Theatre, Boulder, 303-443-3399.

Sun Kil Moon

Tiny Cities (Caldo Verde)

Wolf Parade

Tuesday, September 13, hi-dive, 720-570-4500.

Best Singer-Songwriter -- Male

Gann Matthews

The Beatdown

Gann Matthews

Modest Mouse

Monday, July 26, Fillmore Auditorium, 303-830-8497

Hacked Off

Bubbling beneath the sweet-sounding hill music of the Hackensaw Boys is a wellspring of political discontent.

Uphollow

Ten Fingers

Holopaw

Holopaw (Sub Pop)

That's a Wrap-Up

Backbeat writers sound off on a few of their favorite musical things from 2002.

On the Records

Backbeat contributors reflect on the releases that helped them survive the year 2000.

Mouse on the Moon

Modest Mouse, the band that would be indie rock's king, navigates a major-label existence.