LCD SOUNDSYSTEM With Hot Chip 10.20.10 | Fillmore Auditorium, Denver, CO It’s surprising that Hot Chip isn’t more popular in Colorado. Priming the stage for LCD Soundsystem last night at the Fillmore, the U.K. band’s music is definitely electronic at its base, but layers of guitar and living drumming lean…
From the mouth of Magic Cyclops himself: The entertainer is being brought back from the dead for two nights of Halloween-inspired flashback madness, complete with (we’re assuming) his usual self-deprecating stage banter and possibility of bodily harm. Magic — who last took to the stage in August, opening for Warlock…
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 Men, Hollagramz, Flashlights, Cory Brown,…
Woodsman and Gauntlet Hair have joined psychedelic forces for a two-week West Coast tour, starting November 5. While the former act has already made a few trips to the closest coast, aligning with its fellow ambient wave-crashers in Gauntlet Hair will offer a nice taste of what Colorado has been…
Safe Boating Is No Accident has just opened up shop — a little piece of Internet real estate devoted to sales of Isn’t It Fun?, released in September. The band has chosen to go an admirably realistic route, offering fans the option to pay the suggested ten dollars for the…
Burbank, California’s DIY label Deathbomb Arc began a monumental sonic undertaking this September, offering up over a hundred songs to subscribers of its year-long “Digital Singles Club” for just ten bucks. Taken from the idea behind the label’s past cassette-tape club — which featured Caldera Lakes, one half of which…
Just in time for his tour with Sleigh Bells — which kicks off tomorrow at the Clubhouse in Tempe, Arizona — Travis Egedy, aka Pictureplane, gets a little love and viral video exposure from Lovepump United labelmates HEALTH. The Los Angeles dudes did a clean, flattering version of “Goth Star”…
Maintaining a dual time zone presence — Mountain and Pacific by way of San Francisco, to be exact — Denver-bred White Girl Lust has been on its grind for the better part of a decade. Lifelong friends Clay Meador and Eric Kozak have been collaborating on hard-hitting mixes and deejaying…
If you haven’t heard (or don’t check Pitchfork like its your Twitter account), Steve Albini is pissed off — again. In a Q&A with GQ.com published this week, everyone’s favorite producer/indie curmudgeon decided to attempt to assassinate Sonic Youth’s impenetrable DIY credibility. Serving up some deep cuts — mostly in…
Less than a year after inception, Surfer Blood was high on the hype list — the New York Times sang the band’s praises, and a Reading Festival appearance was on the horizon — but it’s those big steps that often spell disaster for a baby band. Instead of imploding on…
Before the band hibernation/recording season sets in for the colder months, Vitamins — itself in the process of recording new material for release next spring — has offered up a new, tricked out version of “Sequined Dress (Jovian Moons Workout Remix),” from 2009’s Songs For Stem Cells. The remix itself…
SONIC YOUTH With Caldera Lakes 10.04.10 | Ogden Theatre The thing about seeing Sonic Youth is, no matter what else is going on in the venue, the city or even the world at that very moment, there is no question the show will be staggeringly beautiful. It won’t be flashy…
When Bruno Mars was picked up for suspicion of cocaine possession earlier this month in Las Vegas — or “Busted for Booger Sugar” as TMZ reported, gross — it wasn’t the arrest that was so engaging, it was the mug shot. He looked downright giddy in his photo, almost creepy…
Born into the No Wave scene, surviving the Reagan and MTV years and now thriving in the age of iTunes, Sonic Youth’s career is a lesson in DIY done right. The five-piece has stretched the confines of rock ‘n’ roll, injecting melodic structure with fits of noise and feedback, building…
In conjunction with Chicago’s Nail in the Coffin Records, online magazine Nitetrotter is giving away a digital version of Hot White’s latest cassette release. The website — which is also hosting a free download of Hideous Men’s live studio session recorded there in April — has the five free tracks…
A few months ago, Hideous Men were mourning the loss of their drum machine and a laptop containing unreleased material, all stolen from the duo’s van outside of Rhinoceropolis several hours before a scheduled performance at this year’s Titwrench Fest. But the positive digital punks persevered, playing shows with what…
Dear Billy, I refuse to start this letter with an apology or an excuse as to why we aren’t working out. It’s been pretty obvious since around 1996 that I have lost interest in you — The Aeroplane Flies High was the last time I bought in — and…
PARAMORE Tegan and Sara • New Found Glory • Kadawatha 09.13.10 | Red Rocks Amphitheatre, Morrison view full slide show While this year’s installment of the Honda Civic Tour felt more like an obscene barrage of advertisements (complete with a pamphlet about credit-building that targeted a very young audience), the…
Capitalizing on the best part of Bloc Party, lead singer Kele Okereke has stepped out and found a better place for his vacant and sexy vocals: the club. Enlisting Spank Rock producer XXXChange for his solo debut, The Boxer, Kele released an early-summer single, “Tenderoni,” which served as a dirty…
Formed in 2004, when its members were still in high school, Paramore has become a rock-radio institution, with several tours down and three albums on the venerable pop-punk imprint Fueled by Ramen under its belt. Hayley Williams’s robust and pitch-perfect vocals shoot the band far beyond contemporary acts like Boys…
Nothing says summer like hot dogs, ice cream cones, and Whitney Houston’s head exploding into a pile of raw meat. Artist Milton Melvin Croissant III (www.mmciii.com) and musician Colin Ward (of local outfits Phonebooks and Alphabets) celebrate the end of the season with “Summer Hitz 20XX,” a music-video collaboration that…
Okay we all have some skeletons in our closet, shit we dig — be it music, movies or television shows — that we’d just as soon that nobody else knew about. Guilty pleasures is what most people term these sort of inclinations. Well, here at Backbeat, there’s no shame in…
