Kraftwerk

Swift Response

The Disorienting Post Modernity of Rutlemania and Other Assorted Goodies

The Unstoppable Pulse of the Motorik Beat and Other Assorted Goodies

The Best Soul-Blues Album Covers and Other Assorted Goodies

Last Night... Kraftwerk @ Fillmore Auditorium

Beck

Midnite Vultures
(Geffen)

Matmos

A Chance to Cut Is a Chance to Cure (Matador)

Gravy Train!!!!

Tuesday, July 10, hi-dive, 720-570-4500.

Mahjongg

Tuesday, February 26, Larimer Lounge, 303-291-1007.

Kraftwerk

Wednesday, April 23, Fillmore Auditorium, 303-830-8497.

Mix It Up

Explicit Electronica takes synthesizer sounds back to the future.

Beaten by Them

Thursday, August 21, hi-dive, 720-570-4500.

The Juan Maclean

Less Than Human (DFA/Astralwerks)

DJ Chloe

Limón

Cred Sheet

What you need to know to be in the know.

Porsches on the Autobahn

Saturday, February 3, Bender's Tavern, 303-861-7070.

Listen Up

Fast reviews of recent releases

Junior Boys

Wednesday, September 20, hi-dive, 720-570-4500.

Scratching the Surface

Freq Nasty

Scratching the Surface

Solvent

Coldplay

X&Y (Capitol)

Let's Clash

Old and new collide to create the next wave of electronica.

Critic's Choice

Anti-Pop Consortium

Señor Coconut

El Gran Baile (Emperor Norton Records)

Playlist

El Gran Baile (Emperor Norton Records)

Plugged In

Just in time for Lollapalooza, a list of the albums you need to understand electronica.

FINGER LICKING GOOD

Just in time for Lollapalooza, a list of the albums you need to understand electronica.

Time-tripping at Kazmos Lounge

Just in time for Lollapalooza, a list of the albums you need to understand electronica.

MP3 Freeloader: Tonight, CacheFlowe CD release party at Beta

Tonight at Beta, local experimental electronic auteur CacheFlowe is releasing his new dubstep EP Cache, Stacks and Queues. It features a collaboration with Brer Rabbit of Flobots and a remix by Planet Mu dubstep artist Starkey, who will be headlining the event. And as an extra special treat for thos ... More >>

The Westword.com blog shortcut, May 8, 2009

Photo by Adam PerryThey're not quite Dead... Big as life. Today in Backbeat Online: • Last night: The Dead at the Pepsi Center. • The 38th annual CHUN Capitol Hill People's Fair line-up announced. • 3OH!3 breaks top ten on Billboard Hot 100. • Freaky Friday: "Obama Flashback" -- Autotune t ... More >>

Beyond Playlist: Eric Skiff

Eric SkiffResistor AnthemsSelf releasedReleased last year, Eric Skiff's charming Resistor Anthems is a nine tracks of chirping, lo-fi electronic beauty. Reportedly created almost entirely on a borrowed Gameboy hacked into a musical instrument, the album displays an impressive grasp of melody, space ... More >>

CacheFlowe's "Computer World" video

If you weren't lucky enough to catch CacheFlowe's performance of his awesome, dubsteppy cover of Kraftwerk's "Computer World," today's your lucky day because he has released a video of the performance, and we've got it for you. Actually, even if you did catch it, you're still lucky, because along w ... More >>

Last Night: Daedelus at the Bluebird

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Ten band inspired costume ideas

​Halloween, the time when adults decide to don their favorite witty getups, whether it be the intellectual "Freudian slip" or the pop culture driven "Christian Bale Yelling." We're sure some of you are short on ideas, so we've compiled a list of band inspired costumes to wear to your favorite part ... More >>

Heavy Rotation, our top spins for the week of December 1, 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 >>

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 >>

Heavy Rotation, our top spins for the week of January 4, 2010

​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. F ... More >>

Constellations return as a "nationwide collective" with new music

So, here's some good news for fans of adventurous music in the Mile High City: the long-quiet post-punk/dance/experimental band Constellations have announced they'll be returning from limbo in 2010. This has got us pretty damn excited -- before disappearing a few years ago, we considered Constellati ... More >>

Freeloader: Sexy mix from CacheFlowe just in time for Valentine's Day

​Just in time to get you in the proper mood for Valentines Day, CacheFlowe drops a free mix of sexytime music called This Year is For Lovers. It's full of swinging tracks of sexiness -- "ninety minutes of sexy jams in the genres of techno, dubstep, downtempo, hip hop, experimental and more" as ... More >>

The top five music podcasts

​Music podcasts are a difficult breed. With the current outdated copyright law, most podcasts can't utilize full songs in their recordings, making anyone but the best sound like boring music nerds. Of course, we love boring music nerds but being able to speak eloquently or interestingly about ... More >>

Top Ten Best Chiptune Pop Demakes

As you may or may not be aware there is an entire scene of people demaking popular songs into 8-bit blips and bloops. While chiptunes, in general, have always attracted the most circuit-minded of musicians, the demakes themselves are a genre all their own. As the Tron clip above demonstrates, they ... More >>

Erykah Badu, Brian Eno on our playlists this week

​As people who think about, talk about, listen to and make music, the most common question we encounter is, "What are you listening to right now?" So whether you're looking for recommendations, trying to get a feel for our individual sensibilities, or are just curious, we've compiled a list of ... More >>

Read this book: How to Wreck a Nice Beach

​ I've been obsessed with the vocoder for a long time. From the first time I heard Kraftwerk's "Autobahn" to watching Clockwork Orange in high school -- the sound has fascinated and amused me to no end. Until last week, I didn't know Dave Tompkins' book, How to Wreck a Nice Beach, which detai ... More >>

Grinderman, RJD2 and Dismemberment Plan fill our playlists this week

​As people who think about, talk about, listen to and make music, the most common question we encounter is, "What are you listening to right now?" So whether you're looking for recommendations, trying to get a feel for our individual sensibilities, or are just curious, we've compiled a list of ... More >>

The weird, wonderful world of Loke Wilson

​There's something admirable about an artist who just does their own damn thing, who doesn't give a fuck about trends or tastes, and who couldn't care less about how cool they look -- or don't look. Ladies and gentleman, Loke Wilson is just such an artist. In the cold, dark hinterlands of Nor ... More >>

Our new robot infatuation is plenty "Tuff Enuff"

Man, do we love robots. Especially when those robots are bringing us the latest and greatest DFA sounds. We've been wearing out our copies of LCD Soundsystem's This Is Happening for a while now, and just as we're thinking it's time to give it a rest comes a new slice of brilliant DFA goodness, in ... More >>

Constellations

Bicycle Tropics/Savage Orb
Self-released

Andy McClusky of OMD on Dazzle Ships, the influence of '70s Krautrock and Peter Saville

​ Orchestral Manoevres in the Dark (due at the Bluebird Theater on Tuesday, March 22) is perhaps best known for its song "If You Leave," featured in Pretty in Pink, the classic 1986 John Hughes movie. But the band first made waves in its native England with its first two albums, a self-titled ... More >>

Howard Jones on performing Human Lib and Dream Into Action in their entirety on this tour

Fredrik SvenssonHoward Jones​Howard Jones (due Saturday, October 15, at Summit Music Hall) was one of the most successful and popular synth-pop artists of the 1980s. Jones's songs were uplifting, but never saccharine, and he had a knack for articulating the concerns and hopes of people regardl ... More >>