Nancy Sinatra

Best 2007 - St. Louis: Jay Farrar's Chant and Strum

Grammy Suckfest Celebrates Half Century of Lameness

Beyond Playlist: Henry Butler and More

Mile High Makeout: Sunken Treasure

Bad Luck City's amazing 2008 album, Adelaide, opens with an absolutely stunning cover of the Lee Hazlewood song, "The Night Before," from his 1970 hard-to-find album, Cowboy in Sweden. Though it's surprising for a unique and creative outfit like Bad Luck City to introduce itself with someone else's ... More >>

Top Ten Pop Songs of 2008

Over the next couple of weeks, Backbeat will feature some Top Ten lists from around the Village Voice Media chain. Click here for previous year-in-review coverage from Backbeat and VVM.Pop music often gets a bad rap for being disposable or vapid, and in many cases that's true. (Katy Perry, Danity Ka ... More >>

Carrie Underwood

Sunday, March 9, Pepsi Center, 303-830-8497.

East Meets West

Tan Dun's Passion merges cultures

Young Buck

Straight Outta Cashville (G-Unit/Interscope)

Morrissey

You Are the Quarry (Attack)

Video Obscura

Boulder's Joel Haertling uncovers the roots of MTV.

Frazer's Edge

Paula Frazer artfully crosses the country divide with Tarnation. As a solo artist, she sticks more to the shadows.

Judgment Day

Backbeat contributors offer up their favorite recordings of 1999.

Time of the Season

This year's holiday CDs alternately inspire joy, nausea and terror. Which would you prefer?

Kids Do the Darnedest Things

This year's holiday CDs alternately inspire joy, nausea and terror. Which would you prefer?

PLAYLIST

This year's holiday CDs alternately inspire joy, nausea and terror. Which would you prefer?

SAINTS BE PRAISED

This year's holiday CDs alternately inspire joy, nausea and terror. Which would you prefer?

Mile High Music Fest Live Reviews: Day Two

Brian Landis Folkins See photos of the day's fans and crowds on the slideshow page. We're back for Day 2, which looks to be shaping up a little hotter, and not just because of HoneyHoney's frontwoman (above). Check back throughout the day for more photos and reviews. For coverage from Day One, se ... More >>

M. Ward

Sunday, August 16, Rocky Mountain Folks Festival, 800-624-2422.

Heavy Rotation, our top spins for the week of October 19, 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 of ... More >>

Introducing Recast, our latest feature in which we appoint ourselves as soundtrack supervisors of an existing film

​Movie soundtracks have the ability to create mood and atmosphere in an interesting way when utilized properly. Changing or adding to a soundtrack is a way to create a completely new experience. Blade Runner is one of the greatest science fiction movies of all time but the soundtrack has always fe ... More >>

Top Ten Best Soundtracks of the Decade

CQ took itself seriously despite its absurd premise.​Movie soundtracks are a difficult beast to master. They have to take an already existing song and apply it to a new medium in a new context. This often works with varying results, and many songs are so overused in soundtracks, they've lost a ... More >>

Roller Skating With My Cousin will have you going in circles

CQ took itself seriously despite its absurd premise.​Movie soundtracks are a difficult beast to master. They have to take an already existing song and apply it to a new medium in a new context. This often works with varying results, and many songs are so overused in soundtracks, they've lost a ... More >>

Heavy Rotation: Pretty Lights, Liars, Gorillaz top our weekly playlists

Pretty Lights. Photo by Aaron Thackeray​ ​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, o ... More >>

Sony's new Qriocity streaming service launched yesterday, is it enough to kill iTunes?

Sony's hoping to pique your qriocity (sorry) with it's new streaming music service this week, by offering a free thirty day trial, tons of different streaming options and a library of over six million songs from the four major record label and most everyone they distribute. We spent the day with t ... More >>

Five careers Jack White could help revive next

​Jack White has been a busy bee lately, producing records for Loretta Lynn, Wanda Jackson and now, Jerry Lee Lewis. We're starting to get the feeling he might view himself as a sort of Rick Rubin-type character, but instead of making older musicians darker and more introspective, he's just mak ... More >>