Enjoy a free Dr. Pepper, thanks to Guns ‘N’ Roses finally getting their shit together Here’s a guide to all the excellent content you might have overlooked on Backbeat Online this week, while you were busy dealing with the dual shocks of hearing that not only would the eternally delayed…
There are very few opportunities in life to see 500 people dressed in gorilla suits, so make sure you don’t miss one today when the fifth annual Denver Gorilla Run takes place. This charity event, which raises funding and awareness for the plight of the world’s few remaining mountain gorillas,…
Damian Lazarus’s free Lazpod podcast reveals him to be more than just another DJ. Instead of a quick mix of whatever records he’s flogging in the clubs that month, each entry in the series uncovers a deep and omnivorous love of all music — from vintage soul and retro electro…
Disco doesn’t suck so bad now that it’s saving your sorry ass, does it? Here’s a user-friendly guide to all of the top-notch content you might have missed out on while you were busy this week practicing your CPR skills to the beat of the disco classic “Staying Alive”…..
Before the impressive Lord of the Rings trilogy (and the slew of Oscars he received) made Peter Jackson a household name, he was already a revered icon among horror fans for the brilliant, insane zombie opus Dead Alive (aka Braindead). The movie is probably the finest example ever of the…
Come down to Enchanted Grounds, 8800 South Colorado Boulevard in Highlands Ranch, for the fifth annual Denver 24-Hour Comics Challenge, where comic art-ists will create a 24-page comic from scratch in 24 hours. It’s a feat that tests the limits of both endurance and imagination. Organizer Stan Yan of Squid…
Indulge your taste for the bizarre detritus of Western civilization tonight at the Found Footage Festival, a national touring act that presents some of the strangest moments ever captured on video. Curators Nick Prueher and Joe Pickett have been collecting cast-off videos from thrift stores, garage sales and dumpsters since…
M.A.N.D.Y. is the somewhat unwieldy name (what’s with all the periods, guys?) of DJ/production duo Patrick Bodmer and Philipp Jung. These German dance mavens are close friends and frequent collaborators with Booka Shade, an act with a similar sound: bright, perky, techno-inflected house workouts with a tendency to incorporate strange…
Before the impressive Lord of the Rings trilogy (and the slew of Oscars he received) made Peter Jackson a household name, he was already a revered icon among horror fans for the brilliant, insane zombie opus Dead Alive (aka Braindead). The movie is probably the finest example ever of the…
Senator McCain, that song is not about you Here’s a round-up of all the great content you missed this week on Backbeat Online while you were busy following the saga of yet another band — the Foo Fighters — getting pissed about the McCain campaign using one of their songs…
Hailing from Chicago, DJ Heather grew up surrounded by the very roots of house music. She got her first stint as a tastemaker in college, where she manned a low-wattage station and spread her influence over the cafeteria crowd at lunchtime. Later, she picked up gigs in a bar, playing…
Due to a crippling, worldwide shortage of seventeen-minute solos, Phish has decided to reform Here’s a friendly, easy-to-use index to all the great content you might have missed this week on Backbeat Online while you were busy doing that weird stoner hippie dance in celebration of the recent news that…
Just in time for one of the most important U.S. elections in decades comes a powerful, provocative documentary about one of the most important political operatives of the past thirty years. As the architect of the modern Republican Party, mentor of Karl Rove and the man who perfected the use…
If you’ve finished this year’s One Book, One Denver selection and are wishing that Dashiell Hammett had set it on a planet far, far away, or if you’ve ever wondered how James Ellroy’s LA Confidential might have turned out if Ellroy grown up on a steady diet of science fiction,…
Just as Star Wars wouldn’t have been complete without the music of John Williams, the stirring, grandiose work of Nobuo Uematsu has helped to elevate the Final Fantasy series to a legendary gaming experience. Now gamers and music lovers alike can experience Uematsu’s music live, on stage, performed with a…
Just in time for both Halloween and the fortieth anniversary of the film’s original release, the Bug Theatre is bringing the zombie classic Night of the Living Dead to the stage. Director Kris Hipps says she’s been a fan of the film since seeing it on afternoon creature features as…
Witness how well the ability to put beautiful art on skin translates to more traditional media as Th’ink Tank presents a joint show for painters Jenny Lee and Sandi Calistro, both of whom work as tattoo artists. Although both pull from pop art and surrealism and feature women and the…
Canadian-born Fred Everything seems destined to take his place alongside house-music maestros like Mark Farina and Miguel Migs as a masterful purveyor of innovative and appealing deep house. His work shows a solid knowledge and thorough respect for the style’s history and roots, as well as a refusal to be…
Canadian-born Fred Everything seems destined to take his place alongside house-music maestros like Mark Farina and Miguel Migs as a masterful purveyor of innovative and appealing deep house. His work shows a solid knowledge and thorough respect for the style’s history and roots, as well as a refusal to be…
‘It’ll be worth the wait, baby. I promise.” Here’s a handy wrap-up of all the great content you might have overlooked this week on Backbeat Online while you were consumed with wailing and gnashing your teeth over the tragic news that Britney Spears new single would be delayed…..
The history of film adaptations of the works of H.P. Lovecraft is almost universally atrocious, so understand that saying Cthulhu is among the best movies based on his work is damnation by faint praise — like saying someone is the kindest of serial killers. Set in the very near future,…
The history of film adaptations of the works of H.P. Lovecraft is almost universally atrocious, so understand that saying Cthulhu is among the best movies based on his work is damnation by faint praise — like saying someone is the kindest of serial killers. Set in the very near future,…
