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The best concerts in Denver this weekend

YO GABBA GABBA! @ PARAMOUNT THEATRE | SUN, 2/24/13 Sesame Street couldn't handle mixing kids' programming with Katy Perry cleavage, but Yo Gabba Gabba! gets it right every time. Perhaps it's because one of the show's creators, Christian Jacobs, is MC Bat Commander of the Aquabats. After becoming a f ... More >>

New Denver shows: Rush, Rodrigo y Gabriela, the Postal Service, Death, Danzig and more

Bunch of new shows to let you know about this week, including Rush, who's coming to the Pepsi Center in August, plus new dates featuring the Postal Service, Rodrigo y Gabriela with the Colorado Symphony, Death, Danzig and Deer Tick. Keep reading for the full rundown of all those shows, including tic ... More >>

OM at Larimer Lounge, 2/13/12

OM @ LARIMER LOUNGE |2/13/12 It was impossible not to be moved last night by the music of OM, as the visceral, low-end sounds moved through your body and the music hit you and washed around you like a physical force. The mixture of those cthonic tones, with the clatter of cymbals and tambura, octav ... More >>

The ten best concerts in Denver this weekend

Welcome to the weekend, friendos! Mere hours away from quitting time, and there's so much great music to look forward to this weekend. We've got some choice grooves on tap from Disco Biscuits, who are closing out their three-night Colorado run tomorrow night at 1STBANK Center, some heavy goodness fr ... More >>

The Shins at Red Rocks, 5/29/12

THE SHINS @ RED ROCKS AMPHITHEATRE | 5/29/12 Fewer than thirty seconds into their set and the Shins already needed a do-over. Playing Red Rocks could make any band nervous, but its grip is especially tight on one for whom U2 were gods growing up and for whom "this Red Rocks thing is really big for ... More >>

Rise Against, Peter Gabriel, Ben Harper, Passion Pit, Alabama Shakes lead this week's new shows

And it don't stop. Another batch of great shows announced this week, including Rise Against, who's due for a pair of back-to-back nights at the Fillmore in September, as well as Peter Gabriel, who will be performing his album So in its entirety a few nights later at Red Rocks. Wait, there's more: th ... More >>

Review: The Reverend Horton Heat at the Odgen, 1/28/12

THE REVEREND HORTON HEAT @ OGDEN THEATRE | 1/28/12 Just in case anyone forgot how long the Reverend Horton Heat has been around, he reminded everyone during the first 45 minutes of his show the Ogden Theatre Saturday night by playing a song from each of his albums in chronological order, from 1991' ... More >>

The best national music releases of 2011

A $10,000 Led Zeppelin shirt? The next ten highest-selling band T-shirts

​Grab the Guinness Book of World Records, because we've got a ridiculous tale to tell. Earlier this week, a man in Australia purchased a Led Zeppelin T-shirt for $10,000, making it the largest sum anyone has paid for a vintage band shirt. That doesn't mean there aren't shirts that are valued h ... More >>

Dee Dee Penny of Dum Dum Girls on being a shy person in an extroverted profession

Tyson WirtzfieldDum Dum Girls​ As a rare drummer and frontwoman, Dee Dee Penny (aka Kristin Gundred) was part of experimental pop band Grand Ole Party. Once that band split, Gundred took it upon herself to learn how to write songs on an instrument well outside her comfort zone. When that expe ... More >>

How the music industry will change in 2011

​In the past decade, the music industry has seen a lot of changes, but it has struggled to keep pace with technology, piracy and consumer demands. Already this year we've started to see a few more changes take shape, from crackdowns on piracy websites, a resurgence of interest in the currently ... More >>

Mogwai, Amos Lee, moe. shows announced

​Mogwai stops by the Bluebird Theater on Monday May 2 as part of its world tour supporting its seventh album, Hardcore Will Never Die, But You Will, slated for release on Sub Pop on February 15. Tickets for this one are $25 and go on sale this Saturday, November 6 at 10 a.m. Amos Lee visits ... More >>

Foals

Tuesday, October 12, Larimer Lounge, 303-291-1007.

Fruit Bats

Friday, August 20, hi-dive, 720-570-4500.

Q&A with King Khan about reviving dying rats with weird prayers and the source of his blood curdling screams

Megan Cullen​ While this week's profile on King Khan focused primarily on his trip to jail and how he first got into garage music, it only scraped the surface of our interview with the guy. Known for some insanely great live shows both with the Shrines and BBQ Show, Khan gives almost an equal ... More >>

Q&A with Alex Scally of Beach House

Jason Nocito​ Baltimore-based duo Beach House (due at the Bluebird Theater with Bachelorette on Wednesday, April 7) is one of the rare bands that arrives on the scene with a sound so mature, singular and self-contained that you worry about its lifespan: How could something that seems perfect ... More >>

This Just In: Band of Horses, Snoop Dogg, Beach House shows announced

Band of Horses recently finished recording a new album, Night Rainbow, which the act has been playing songs from at shows since. While there's still no word on when the disc will be issued, chances are better than good that the band will be playing new material when it hits the Fox Theatre on Monday ... More >>

Ben Sollee

Friday and Saturday, December 18 and 19, Bluebird Theater, 303-830-8497.

Fruit Bats

Saturday, August 29, Larimer Lounge, 303-291-1007.

Top 10 Indie Rock Albums of 2008

Over the next few weeks, Backbeat will feature some Top Ten lists from around the Village Voice Media chain. Today, our own Michael Roberts runs down his favorite indie albums of 2008. In 2008, independent rock returned to the underground, where it belongs. Given the grand catastrophe that is tod ... More >>

Grand Archives

Grand Archives

Tuesday, March 4, hi-dive, 720-570-4500.

Random Thoughts On Five Songs While I Pretend To Work

Last Night: Minus the Bear, the Helio Sequence and Grand Archives @ The Gothic Theatre

Hot Hot Heat Simmers Down

Happiness is limited for these Canadians.

For God's Sake

The Thermals have fun with fundamentalism.

Coming Zune

Once again, Microsoft is chasing Apple in the hipster-hardware game. Will it make sweet music this time?

Wolf Parade

Monday, August 28, Fox Theatre, Boulder, 303-443-3399.

The Elected

Sun, Sun, Sun (Sub Pop)

Nationalistic 2005

The rest of the planet generated some good CDs this year, too.

Chad VanGaalen

Friday, September 9, Larimer Lounge, 303-291-1007.

Low Front

After a decade of frigid indie rock, Low's temperature is rising.

Damien Jurado

Saturday, October 30, Climax Lounge, 303-292-5483.

The Makers

Wednesday, October 20, Larimer Lounge, 303-291-0959.

Iron & Wine

Our Endless Numbered Days (Sub Pop)

Now Hear This

Coming attractions

The Frantix

My Dad's a Fuckin' Alcoholic (Afterburn Records)
Dark Days (Glazed Records)

Backwash

Fear of a hip planet? Austin swarms with the übercool during SXSW.

Hit Pick

Tongues

X Marks the Spot

Former SST producer Spot brings underground Celtic sounds into the light.

Border Crossing

Through its nods to tradition and embrace of innovation, Calexico emerges as a desert bloom.

Playlist

Primus, The Go, At the Drive In, Method Man/Redman

Bring Back That Sunny Day

After a three-year hiatus, Sunny Day Real Estate is in business again.

One (Or More) Against the World

Gifted singer-songwriter Rebecca Gates says the Spinanes are both singular and plural.

System's Abnormal

K Records founder Calvin Johnson leads Dub Narcotic Sound System down the road less traveled.

Playlist

'Head of the Class

Dulli Noted

The Afghan Whigs' Greg Dulli, in black, white and gray.

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