John Peel

Groovie Mann of My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult on the act's emotionally charged live shows

My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult began as a film idea that Frankie Nardiello and Marsten Daley had that never fully came to fruition. The two met while touring with Ministry, and in 1987, inspired in part by disco, exploitation films, the industrial scene happening around them in Chicago and a mutu ... More >>

Nick Drake's Pink Moon turns forty

In his best selling book Killing Yourself to Live, Chuck Klosterman asserts that "the best career move any musician can make is to stop breathing." When examining Kurt Cobain's post-mortem transformation from junkie dad to iconic voice of a generation, Klosterman notes that the suicide told everyone ... More >>

Damned Damned Damned turns 35

It's unfortunate that so many people assume that U.K. punk was all about politics. When Bill Maher interviewed Green Day's Billy Joe Armstrong on his show Real Time with Bill Maher last year, he questioned the singer's punk credibility for working to help elect Barack Obama in 2008, referring to Th ... More >>

Pete Tong on twenty years at the BBC, relaunching FFRR and returning to Pacha

​Pete Tong (due at Beta this Saturday, October 15) has had a ridiculous year: In commemoration of holding down a slot at BBC Radio 1 for twenty years, he took over the station for twelve hours, plus he re-launched his Pacha residency in Ibiza and started a pool party residency in Vegas. We cau ... More >>

Top 10 Reissues of the Decade

This Heat finally makes it Out of Cold Storage​Reissues are a difficult breed, on one hand they seek to garner a new audience, on another they have to pay heed to what fans are looking for. The best reissues not only remind you why you liked the band in the first place, but help in keeping tha ... More >>

Q&A with Tracyanne Campbell of Camera Obscura

Early on in its career, Camera Obscura endured endless comparisons to revered fellow Glaswegians Belle & Sebastian. At this point, however, any comparison threatens to make the latter look bad: Among scholars of the heartache and growing pains of bookish, precocious youth, Stuart Murdoch's got n ... More >>

Nationalistic

Our music writers pick the year’s national bests.

Listen Up

Fast reviews of recent releases

No Sale

The Go! Team doesn't have TV-commercial aspirations.

Bloody Hollies

Sunday, September 4, Bender's Tavern, 303-861-7070.

The Pod Squad

What it is, how to get it and what pod-casting means to the world of radio.

Melt-Banana

Wednesday, May 25, Larimer Lounge, 303-291-1007.

Low Flying Owls

Monday, July 5, Larimer Lounge, 303-291-1007.

Interpolitics

The singer for an NYC buzz band tries his hand as a spin doctor.

Here's Mud in Your Ear

Seattle's Mudhoney sometimes wonders what all the fuzz was about.

Grim Reverb

For Maraca Five-O, instro-rock means catchin' an asphalt wave.

On the Records

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

Kids Say the Darnedest Things

The members of Bis know what's wrong with most of their peers: They're too old.

Lab Rats

Laetitia Sadier on Stereolab's experiments in sound.

The Culture Club

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