Wishing you were at San Diego Comic Con but stuck at work/home? Wondering how you can fulfill your nerd quotient for the day? Or maybe you just always wondered what might happen if someone were to combine the world’s most famous zombie video-game series with the infamous cancan song? If…
Trolling around YouTube is not only a great way to avoid the mountain of work staring you in the face, it’s also (occasionally) a decent way to find some new tunes. Tunes like today’s Song of the Day, “The Holograms” from Fol Chen. Not even sure how it crossed our…
The clanking, shifty rhythms and cool, prickly textures of techno auteur Bob Rogue’s work are awash in contradiction. Despite sounding like a transmission beamed to Earth from a distant star and tuned in by SETI’s massive telescopes, his music is typically both pretty and impossible to resist dancing to. Creating…
We’re number two! We’re number two! Yeeaaaahhhh! Coming in second in a music quiz may not seem like something to cheer about, but considering our desultory sixth-place finish in our own fucking quiz a few weeks back (a finish so lame I felt compelled to make up a list of…
What happens in your brain in that space between waking and sleep, when thoughts cease to flow but dreams are still yet to arrive? We don’t know, because we’re music bloggers, not brainologists, but we’re thinking it’s some kind of mental test pattern that looks a lot like this week’s…
Have you heard the good/great news? Legendary punk band Fugazi is opening the vaults and releasing recordings of pretty much every live show the band has ever played. As a group with a reputation for incredible live shows who doesn’t do a lot of touring these days, that’s great news…
Ah, Germany: Strangest of European cultures, home of great beers and lovers of David Hasselhoff. Not to mention, the only possible place in the world, apart from maybe their WWII buddies Japan, where something like today’s video could emerge. Why? Because only in Germany would one think to combine the…
One of Colorado’s biggest massives is going off tonight and tomorrow at Red Rocks. We’re talking, of course, about the hotly anticipated two-day edition of Global Dance Festival. If you’ve always been curious about dance music and are wondering if this is a good opportunity to indulge in it, let…
Okay, metal, death metal and/or punk bands, if you’ve ever wanted to put a song in a film — and really, who hasn’t? — opportunity is knocking. Pueblo-based Bloody Rose Productions is currently shooting a short entitled Bone Digger Jones and readying another, called Curse of the Hunter’s Moon, and…
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…
Mash up the best bits of Night of the Living Dead, The Exorcist and Aliens, set the whole thing in a claustrophobic old-world apartment building, unfurl it all at a breakneck pace, and you’d be close to the perfect zombie-movie mayhem that is REC 2. This brilliant sequel to REC…
Even among the many dance-music superstars slated to play this year’s Global Dance Fest, Kaskade stands out as something special. The Utah-born DJ has crafted his own signature sound out of an unusual blend of disco-kissed deep house and big-room trance. Somehow he manages to balance these two disparate genres…
Ever since the halcyon days of Star Trek (the original series), pop culture has loved the idea of the evil twin. And in our top flier this week, we are given a prime example of evil twin-ness. Using what appears to be a paunchy Stacy Keach as a model, our…
There comes a point in the career of any musical act where the only reasonable thing to do is to follow the trailblazing example of the King. By this we mean: Buy a lot of jumpsuits, move your bloated, fat ass to Las Vegas and basically become an ersatz version…
Today’s journey into the freaky detritus of the music world is short, sweet and strangely surreal. It seems to come from some far off Russia-type place (at least, the Cyrillic writing on the YouTube page we found it seems to indicate such a thing) where ninjas play the accordion, and…
The next George&Caplin disc, Scenic Byways and Secluded Malls/Requiem for an Encyclopedia, has an official release date — on August 13 you’ll get to hear the “bootgazing vaquero manifesto” inspired double album. One disc is traditional songs, the second, a series of infinitely repeatable loops you can play in any…
The International Experimental Cinema Exposition is offering back-to-back programs fro fans of experimental film. It kicks off tonight with Bright-Eyed Small Gauge, an exhibition of Super-8 material by Frankie Symonds and Jesse Kennedy. “It’s younger filmmakers who are working directly with the film itself and who have studied with masters…
Immerse yourself in the art and culture of hip-hop today at the Urban Culture Collective, a free event in Skyline Park. Music, graffiti, fashion and dance performances and competitions are all on the agenda. And while old-school heads will feel right at home, it’s a great opportunity for the curious…
Back in the days before anyone had ever spoken the word “dubstep,” when the nascent genre was little more than a weird trend cropping up on the B-sides of two-step singles, Hatcha was there. As a buyer and, later, A&R man for Big Apple Records, he put some of the…
This week’s top flier inspires a sense of delicate, earthy mysticism that recalls classic children’s books. You know, the kind that hold eternal wisdom among their bright illustrations and simple stories, the ones you return to again and again as you grow older and can’t wait to introduce your own…
Are you already lamenting the loss of beloved weirdo pop outfit Six Months to Live? Well, do we have good news for you! In just a few weeks, you’ll be able to enjoy some of the same zesty pop/rock flavor with former Six Months to Live frontman’s new act, the…
The Internet is full of amateur musicians with big aspirations. The talented ones can be truly inspiring and occasionally even rise to superstardom (hello, Justin Bieber!). The less-talented … well, they are awesome in their own, special way and the very best/worst of them become famous in their own way…
