Montreal

Montreal-style bagels made-to-order by Small Batch Bagels in Boulder

The New York-style bagel is known the world over, but the Montreal bagel is now making its mark in Colorado, as Small Batch Bagels of Boulder churns out the hand-rolled, smaller and salt-free bagels. Fatima Hirji, who started the company last May, got hooked on the bagels as a student at Concordi ... More >>

Backbeat's top five spins: This is what we're listening to this week. What's on your playlist?

As people who think about, talk about, write about, listen to and make music, it's not surprising that the most common (and favorite) topic of conversation among us is the same: "What are you listening to right now?" Stick a quarter in us, and, boy, wouldn't you know it, off we go, on and on about t ... More >>

Trends without end, round four: Bread, ice and more beer

What will be the big culinary trends in 2013? As we prepare for a new year in gastronomy, we posed that question to dozens of people in the local food business, everyone from chefs and pastry magicians to restaurant brokers and PR consultants, from brewers and grape gurus to realtors and pig farmers ... More >>

Backbeat's top five spins: This is what we're listening to this week. What's on your playlist?

As people who think about, talk about, write about, listen to and make music, it's not surprising that the most common (and favorite) topic of conversation among us is the same: "What are you listening to right now?" Stick a quarter in us, and, boy, wouldn't you know it, off we go, on and on about t ... More >>

Nightwish's Tuomas Holopainen on symphonic metal and the band's new film, Imagineaerum

Formed in 1996, Nightwish gained instant popularity in its native Finland with the 1997 release of its first album, Angels Fall First. Eventually, Nightwish achieved international success with album sales in excess of over eight million worldwide, yet Nightwish has struggled to achieve popularity an ... More >>

Level 1 Productions, Stept, MSP clean up at IF3 International Freeski Film Festival

Denver-based ski porn purveyors Level 1 Productions won big at the IF3 International Freeski Film Festival over the weekend in Montreal, with director Josh Berman and his team taking the top prize -- Best North American Film -- for their 2012 film Sunny, as well as Best Editing and Best Male Perform ... More >>

Plants and Animals

Tuesday, May 15, hi-dive, 720-570-4500.

Adventure Club

Vincent Lemieux joins a Very CMKY NYE at Shine

Little Scream

Saturday, November 19, Larimer Lounge, 303-291-1007.

Painted Palms

Sunday, May 8, Bluebird Theater, 303-830-8497.

Traces balances everything quite nicely at the Denver Center

Yo Gabba Gabba!

Sunday, November 7, 1STBANK Center, 303-830-8497.

Win a pair of tickets to see Gorillaz on Sunday

​ Like most weekends in the Mile High City, there's no shortage of great shows to see in Denver in the next few days, from Overcasters Gathering of the Clouds festival to Apples in Stereo at the Bluebird to Bassnectar's 1STBASS Center (with Emancipator and Dan Deacon) to Of Montreal at the Og ... More >>

Signal Path, Of Montreal and Emancipator filled our playlists this past 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?" 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 al ... More >>

Of Montreal, Kayne West and Air Dubai 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 >>

NPR previews a whopping fourteen hotly anticipated albums, including Of Montreal, the Walkmen and Chromeo

​NPR has been quietly building a reputation as the best place to get a peek at hotly anticipated new albums a week or two before their official releases (welll, for those of us who prefer to avoid leak sites and torrent servers, anyway). Today, it got a lot louder, with a crazy fourteen album ... More >>

MGMT

Friday, June 11, Red Rocks, 303-830-8497.

Megasoid at City Hall

Pheek at Theory + Practice

DeVotchKa set to hit the road with Gogol Bordello

Gary Isaacs​In a pairing that is so natural and complementary that it's virtually cosmic, DeVotchKa, one of Denver's most treasured exports, is slated to join Gogol Bordello on the road for a series of ten dates in mid April. After playing a dependably sold out Valentine's Day show at the Fox ... More >>

Wondering what to get that special little someone for Christmas? Wonder no more. The Indie Rock Coloring Book is here!

​Ever notice just how much more advanced kids are these days? They just seem so much cooler than we were growing up. We were at a barbecue not too long ago, for instance, and heard the wee son of a friend -- seriously, the kid hadn't even hit puberty yet -- raving about the new Bon Iver record. Ye ... More >>

Go Fly a Kite!

Heavy Rotation, our top spins for the week of October 5, 2009

​​As music critics, the most common question we get asked (and ask each other, for that matter) is, "What are you listening to?" The pervasiveness of this query is precisely what inspired Heavy Rotation, our latest feature. For the benefit of those who happen to be curious, we've compiled a list ... More >>

Our top 5 Monolith can't-miss acts

Photo by Rob Lee​There's roughly a gazillion bands playing at Monolith over the next two days and there's no way you can see them all (see, there aren't a half-gazillion hours in a day), so we've come up with this handy list of five can't-miss acts at Monolith. These are the bands that are wor ... More >>

$99 two-day Monolith Festival passes released

​If you haven't yet scored tickets for the Monolith Festival, which is just over a week off, now might be the ideal time to get them and save a few bucks. Esurance, one of the festivals sponsors, just released a block of 400 $99 two-day passes (no service fees) that are only available for the next ... More >>

The newer generations' love of classic rock shows a lack of imagination

Veggie Girl: Arada Ethiopian

The first time I tried Ethiopian food, I was visiting my friend, Mat, in Montreal. We'd met the previous summer on a train headed to Berlin, and since we were both backpacking solo around Europe and trying to get to Prague, which had just suffered a flood, we found ourselves staying in the same ho ... More >>

Melissa Auf der Maur taps members of VAUX to back her on tour

Kaki King

Friday, October 17, Bluebird Theater, 303-830-8497.

Pointing you toward the best in legitimate, artist-approved downloads

CPC Gangbangs

Sunday, May 18, hi-dive, 720-570-4500.

CPC Gangbangs

The Arcade Fire Burns With Energy

Arcade Fire

Neon Bible
Merge Records

The Stills

Without Feathers (Vice)

The Dears

Tuesday, May 31, Climax Lounge, 303-292-5483.

Les Georges Leningrad

Wednesday, March 2, Larimer Lounge, 303-291-1007.

The Dears

No Cities Left (SpinART Records)

Electric Company

Les Ballet Jazz brings the heat

Let's Clash

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

Hit Pick

Breezy Porticos

Flight of Fancy

Cirque du Soleil's acrobats appear to soar with the greatest of ease.

Uh-Oh, Canada!

The first nation of hockey won't be taking home the Stanley Cup this year.

Sweet Dreams

Love and loss haunt Waking the Dead.

The Basement Tapes

Running Away With the Cirque

The Next Level Above Human

True Colors

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