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Aqua

This Golden Triangle restaurant alters its focus from deep sea to deep house.

B.Side Lounge

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Q Blues and Jazz Lounge

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Rockbar/Shelter

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Secret Society of Sound

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The Funeral

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Backbeat presents: An exclusive first listen to No Weak Heart Shall Prosper from The Pirate Signal

Don't miss The Pirate Signal's CD release show tomorrow night at the Marquis with The Sunset Curse, F.O.E., Karma and Haven (of Blackhearts), Flowers From Her, DJ Musa & Peter Black. Forget everything you know about The Pirate Signal. Okay, well, perhaps not everything -- that's probably a li ... More >>

Presenting the 2010 Westword Music Showcase Ballot

​ This past February, when we started putting together the 2010 Westword Music Showcase, we posted an item asking you how we could improve our annual music festival, this year set for Saturday, June 19, in the Golden Triangle (if you haven't already purchased your tickets, you can still buy d ... More >>

Saturday night was a thrilling night for homegrown hip-hop in the Mile High City

As the headline states: Saturday night was a thrilling night for homegrown hip-hop in the Mile High City, even as it was also a study of contrasts. Starting the night off at the Walnut Room and catching the masterful floorwork of BreakEFX, fresh off its stint on America's Favorite Dance Crew, foll ... More >>

Westword Music Showcase local lineup revealed

Gabriel Rovick And Ryan James (Focus 4 Design)​ The complete lineup for Showcase has been finalized, and all that's left to do now is countdown the days until the sixteenth annual Westword Music Showcase takes place on Saturday, June 19. Nearly a hundred local acts (well over a hundred if y ... More >>

Win tickets to our special VIP pre-party with BoomBox

Tobin Voggesser​ Got your tickets to the Westword Music Showcase yet? Yeah? Nice work! Here's some news just for you: We're throwing a very special VIP pre-party just before the Showcase on Thursday, June 17, featuring BoomBox, who will be playing a private DJ set, Ginger Perry and Peter Blac ... More >>

Presenting the 2010 Westword Music Showcase Schedule and Map

IMPORTANT SCHEDULING UPDATE: Due to circumstances beyond our control (and, more to the point, frontman Chris Fogal's) TAUNTAUN will not be performing in the 6:15 - 7 p.m. slot at Broadway's tomorrow. While Fogal is resting his aching back ("I would tough it out," he assures us, "but the problem is t ... More >>

Analog Space presents a special screening of Animal Collective's Oddsac at the Meadowlark

Mario Zoots/Modern Witch​Ah, looks like we're finally going to get around to screening Oddsac, Animal Collective's twisted take on cinema verite (see trailer after the jump), thanks to the lovely chaps from Analog Space and their esteemed counterparts at Research & Development, who will be tre ... More >>

Share your sensibilities at Hard Drive

​Earlier this summer, a group of DJs started getting together for an informal round table of sorts at City O'City. Inspired by a party they admired in West London called "CDR," a trio of DJs, A-What, Musa and Peter Black, began meeting to play music for one another and talk about the songs eac ... More >>

Benjamin Curtis of School of Seven Bells on using Oblique Strategies to Disconnect from Desire

Abbey Drucker​ With a dreamy, uplifting sound reminiscent of bands like Lush, Curve and Stereolab, School of Seven Bells creates deeply atmospheric music that explores the inner reaches of the human psyche with a surprisingly colorful yet concrete flair. Sisters Alejandra and Claudia Deheza c ... More >>

Last night: School of Seven Bells - 09/24/10

Tom MurphyPeter Black​ SCHOOL OF SEVEN BELLS With Active Child and DJ Peter Black 09.24.10 | Larimer Lounge, Denver Peter Black kicked off the evening with an hour-long set of remixes he's done for various artists, including songs by Chris & Cosey, Blonde Redhead and Glasser. Black moved in ... More >>

Peter Black brings Hideous Men, Hollagramz and more to Meadowlark for Halloween bash

​Peter Black, the man behind the explosive Analog Space parties, has enlisted a diverse roster of DJs and bands for his upcoming Voodoo Ball 2010, a glittering Halloween blowout with a hand-picked lineup featuring Gauntlet Hair, Woodsman (their tour kickoff, according to Mr. Black), Hideous Me ... More >>

Win tickets to see Holy Fuck, Indian Jewelry, Gauntlet Hair and Peter Black at the Larimer

​Okay, so we picked a winner for the pair of LCD Soundsystem tickets we had for tonight. If your name isn't Brandon Saranik and your submission wasn't "Liquid Courage Dancing," we're guessing you're slightly bummed. (If it's any consolation, there were a ton of responses we dug -- Lethargic ... More >>

Win tickets to see Das Racist this Friday

​Das Racist -- the dudes responsible for the genius/idiocy that is "Combination Pizza Hut and Taco Bell" -- are in town this Friday night for the Remedy Relief show at Casselman's with Pictureplane, Hollagramz, DJ Synergy, Peter Black, Kent Dub and Nikka T. We've got tickets with your name w ... More >>

Tonight: Tjutjuna album release at the Larimer Lounge

Trip balls with Tjutjuna, dude.​Finally, Tjutjuna will be giving its debut LP a proper celebratory release tonight, with a show at the Larimer Lounge. The self-titled, ten-song LP -- which became available for a a listening preview in September and was physically released in October -- is fina ... More >>

Tjutjuna at Larimer Lounge, 11/19/10

Tom MurphyTjutjuna​ TJUTJUNA Woodsman • Married In Berdichev • DJ Peter Black 11.19.10 | Larimer Lounge For his set, Peter Black used an iPad to control and trigger some of the sounds he was weaving into his live remixes. This set of songs had kind of a raw, percussion heavy sound and se ... More >>

Dylan Rau of Bear Hands on Burning Bush Supper Club and politics.

​Bear Hands first made waves in 2007 with the release of its first record Golden EP, bolstered by a nervy energy and politically pointed lyrics on songs like "Vietnam." On the Brooklyn band's latest release, Burning Bush Supper Club, Dylan Rau's incisive lyrics are very much intact, but the ba ... More >>

Blackhearts become BLKHRTS and prepare to release debut, BLK S BTFL (Black Is Beautiful)

​A little over a month ago, we wrote about the impending reinvention of The Pirate Signal and reported that frontman Yonnas Abraham would be shortening his own stage name to just Yo, followed by various punctuation, to be determined by the context. Well, now it seems his other outfit, Blackhea ... More >>

Free mix from DJ Narky Stares of the Real is a Feeling crew

A solstice, an eclipse and a dance party? Dude.​Not a lot of holiday parties circle around events that only happen every 456 years, but tomorrow night at Meadowlark, Real is a Feeling is holding it down as your winter solstice pre-party headquarters. To honor the solstice -- which is extra spe ... More >>

Peter Black co-hosts Local Shakedown on Radio 1190 this afternoon, offers free holiday mix

​Peter Black never quits, thankfully. The DJ, producer, party promotor and all-around busy bee is working hard this winter through his creative house, Analog Space -- which announced a partnership with Speaker Snacks, that will come to fruition in 2011. But before heading into the new year, Bl ... More >>

Tonight: Analog Space at Meadowlark, plus a Bring Your Own Records Party at the Merc

​Tonight, we're recommending two dance parties we told you about earlier in the week--The Analog Space Black Christmas Party and the Bring Your Own Records Party and benefit--because both are for a good cause, and both promise a throwdown of some great jams.

A first listen: It's a "BLKHRTS PRTY" this weekend, and the vowels aren't invited

Todd Roeth​ BLKHRTS, the vowel-less brainchild of The Pirate Signal frontman Yonnas Abraham, brings together three MCs of beautifully dark proportions. The concept of the group ebbs and flows between the havoc in the world of goth and the grit found most typically in hip-hop.

SOCO Nightlife Dancers, Professor Phelyx, Firemancer, and more at Artopia

This babe has her eyes set on the FireMANcer.​When you're talking about the "biggest, greatest, most poppin' ass art party of the year," you know there's going to be a lot of stuff going on -- almost too much stuff. But not really. That would be ridiculous. Don't be ridiculous. Because you do ... More >>

Prefuse 73, The Hood Internet and more: Your Artopia 2011 music schedule

Photo: Mattie StaffordThe Hood Internet perform in June in Minneapolis. See more photos.​Artopia, Westword's annual "biggest, greatest, most poppin' ass art party of the year," goes down on Saturday night. A highlight this year as always is the musical talent, so we've parsed down the full sch ... More >>

So What! reunion slated for May at Beauty Bar

​ Psst! We just heard from a little birdy that So What! is having a reunion. What is SoWhat!, you ask? Only one of the most popular, longest-running, progressive, influential nights in town. Not to mention resilient. Let's talk about resiliency. Think the Solution has thrived despite enduring ... More >>

DJ MU$A presents: My Robot Girlfriend

Paul Winner​DJ MU$A has emerged from his creative cave with a striking new mixed CD he's been working on called My Robot Girlfriend. A mash-up that's more sophisticated than many full album productions hitting the streets these days, My Robot Girlfriend finds MU$A infusing elements of old-scho ... More >>

2011 Westword Music Showcase Ballot

​Seventeen years! It's hard to believe we've been doing the Westword Music Showcase for that long. I can still remember being at the first one in LoDo nearly two decades ago. And when I think back, it seems like that cold, rainy Sunday night was just a few years ago.

Peter Black presenting first annual Denver After Dark Festival this August on Larimer

Looks like Peter Black, the progressive mind behind Analog Space, is trying his hand at curating a music festival. Dubbed Denver Afterdark, Black's inaugural soiree is slated to take place at the Meadowlark, the Larimer Lounge and Flobot.Org's community space on Friday, August 26, with performances ... More >>

Torrential rainstorm wipes out Peter Black's entire music collection and destroys gear

​The epic monsoon that swept through Denver last night took out more than just trees. The torrential rainstorm also wiped out Peter Black's entire music catalogue when his car, which contained his Mac Book and virtually all of his music gear, was flooded. A veteran of the Mile High music scene ... More >>

DJs: Love them or loathe them?

​I heart DJs. Always have. Always will. I'm one of those people who believe that what they do requires as much skill, dexterity and creativity as any musician I've ever known. And I'm not referring solely to prodigious turntablists like Vajra and Cysko Rokwell when I say that. I'm also talking ... More >>

Bass Invasion 3 takes over Cervantes' on September 16

​I heart DJs. Always have. Always will. I'm one of those people who believe that what they do requires as much skill, dexterity and creativity as any musician I've ever known. And I'm not referring solely to prodigious turntablists like Vajra and Cysko Rokwell when I say that. I'm also talking ... More >>

Halloween Events: Great American Taxi, MiM0Sa and Designer Drugs (win tickets!)

This weekend is huge. It's one of those, "If you aren't here, then you aren't having as much fun as me" kind of weekends. The deck is stacked with amazing things to do, so pick a card -- any card. We've got some passes to Designer Drugs at Club Vinyl to give away, so leave us a comment on a memorabl ... More >>

10 things to do for $10 this weekend, October 28-30, 2011

​This weekend is all about one thing: Halloween. While there are a couple things you can do without stretching your costume muscles, nearly all of the events happening are related to Halloween in some way. If you don't like the holiday, you best hit up the video store and stock up on full seas ... More >>

Photos: SBTRKT at The Bluebird Theater, with Mikey Thunder and Peter Black, 11/5/11

Britt ChesterSBTRKT at the Bluebird on Saturday night​SBTRKT at THE BLUEBIRD THEATER, 11/5/11This past Saturday night at the Bluebird Theater, U.K.-based, vowel-abstaining electronic artist SBTRKT (aka Aaron Jerome) set it off with the help of Mikey Thunder and Peter Black. Offering up a set o ... More >>

Here are your 2011 Denver #WebAwards music winners

​Here are the winners of the 2011 Denver #WebAwards in the category we're loosely dubbing "music," which means Backbeat scribes report on the happenings in these areas, right here on Backbeat. These are the winners only; for a complete list of finalists go here: "Here are your 2011 Denver #Web ... More >>

Spacetime Continuum, Luca Bacchetti, Africa Hitech and more on this weekend's Dance CArd

Catch DJ ESP at Bar Standard tonight​Feel like dancing? There're plenty of places to get your groove on this weekend. Tonight, Bar Standard is hosting Spacetime Continuum and DJ ESP (aka Woody McBride) as part of Full Flavor Fridays; expect ambient techno and experimental live PA or vinyl sets ... More >>

Get Natty and Nice this weekend and kick with GirlGrabbers at Misletoe and Mistresses

​The holiday party swagger is in full effect this weekend. It's rounded out by everything from a Natty and Nice reggae party to GirlGrabbers' Mistletoe and Mistresses party going down at Theory and Practice Gallery. GirlGrabbers (Gypdahip, Qknox and Brikabrak) are bringing out the holiday chee ... More >>

Weekend's best dance bets: Ana Sia, Matt Darey, Hipp-E and more

​Weekend's here! Feel like cutting a rug? As always, we've got you covered. This weekend's Dance Card is brimming: Ana Sia, the glitch-hop/dubby darling of the West Coast, headline Casselman's on Friday night, and there are a ton of other options, including Icicle, Matt Darey, the return of Hi ... More >>

Weekend best party bets: Aquarius edition of '90s house party, Molina's Bronze Future chapbook release and more

Catch Molina Speaks's Bronze Future chapbook release party tomorrow at Grohaus.​If you manage to survive today's snowpocalypse, there's plenty of party goodness happening in the Mile High City this weekend. It's Bob Marley's birthday, in case you feel like celebrating. Oh, and speaking of cele ... More >>