As with most of our Rough Mixes interviews, we had an abundance of material to work from and a limited amount of space in the paper. Subsequently, the piece on Immortal Dominion in this week’s print edition, barely scratches the surface of our recent chat with guitarist/vocalist Brian Villers. The…
Another fun show last night. Andy was back from tour and as things worked out, we didn’t have any guests, which meant less talk and more rock. In homage to Hot IQs, who recently announced their impending split, we kicked off the show with three back-to-back songs from the group,…
If you heard Forth Yeer Freshman’s 2001 debut, Drunkinomicon, and then listened to Regulators, the band’s new album, and thought you were hearing two completely different bands, you’d be right. As it happens, this is a completely different band. Literally. The only member remaining from the original lineup is frontman…
Over the past few years, the members of Immortal Dominion have undoubtedly experienced a gamut of emotions, from paralyzing grief spurred by a harrowing personal tragedy — the murder/suicide of former bassist Stephen Sherwood and his wife, Sara Elizabeth (guitarist/vocalist Brian Villers’s sister-in-law, whose children Villers and his wife are…
Take this for what’s it’s worth; we’re still considering this hearsay (given the name of this section of the blog, that actually seems kind of fitting) at this point until we’ve had the chance to speak with the band to get confirmation: Several independent (and reliable) sources with ties to…
My buddy Chris has a song called “Everyone’s a DJ,” and bygod if that doesn’t seem like gospel truth these days, doesn’t it? DJ MU$A evidently subscribes to this sentiment — or at least he’s willing to give folks a shot to prove that notion otherwise. Last Thursday, he kicked…
In this week’s edition of the Denver Boot, the esteemed Mr. Lance Stack has provided us with another fine audio snapshot of the Denver scene that we’re now blessing you with, a vintage — well, if you consider three and a half years ago to “vintage” — recording from the…
Update: As if you needed any more incentive to attend this — we just learned that the Bluebird show, which is all ages and will in essence serve as Hot IQs’ farewell show*, is FREE for those who are of legal drinking age. Original post after the jump.* Hot IQs…
Blare Magazine. Familiar? Yeah, us neither. Regardless, the site (blog?) recently posted a list that struck us as fairly interesting: ten pop albums that Nate Motte thinks should be listened to all the way through. We stumbled onto the link via AbsolutePunk.net, where a number of folks expressed their displeasure…
To say Mike Marchant has an angel resting on his shoulder is an understatement on par with saying our economy is sort of a bad way right now. Yesterday, Marchant, one of Denver’s most talented songwriters, was hit by a car and managed to walk away from the incident having…
Just received word that Set Forth has officially changed its name to the Northern Way. We spoke with frontman Steve Melton a short time ago, and he says that the move was prompted by the fact that there are several other acts are currently using the same moniker. The act,…
Here what the area’s local-centric specialty radio shows were playing this week. We’re currently tracking the playlists for five different shows: Radio 1190’s long-running Local Shakedown, KTCL’s Locals Only, the Colorado Sound, which originates at KRFC and is re-broadcast all over Colorado, and the Colorado Wave, which is syndicated on…
As music critics, the most common question we get asked (and ask each other, for that matter) is, “What are you listening to?” The pervasiveness of this query is precisely what inspired Heavy Rotation, our latest feature. For the benefit of those who happen to be curious, we’ve compiled a…
All right, so by now you’ve heard that Mudhoney had to opt off the Westword Music Showcase due to a scheduling conflict, which bummed some folks out, ourselves included. Well, our spirits have subsequently been lifted with the confirmation of A Place to Bury Strangers, who has signed on to…
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN @ PEPSI CENTER | 4/10/09 At his age, Bruce Springsteen could easily just coast into his twilight years and live off the interest of an already well established legacy. Hell, at this stage of his career, he could phone in a medley-driven revue like some of his contemporaries,…
Bad news: We’ve been holding off posting this until we had their replacement lined-up, but we just noticed several comments (which we’ve since deleted) on the original blog announcement from somebody, who clearly has inside access, breaking news we just got not too long ago ourselves. Nothing against those posters,…
Just received five new tracks from former Cat-A-Tac frontman Jim McTurnan’s forthcoming solo effort, the Give Up Suffering EP, which was mixed and mastered by Jason Martin from Starflyer 59. If you tuned in to Mile Hi-Fidelity this past Wednesday, you head the title track from the new record, which…
So I had my first solo flight on Wednesday night. Since the show launched in December, I’ve always had a co-host, even when Andy was conspicuously absent as he was this past Wednesday. Andy couldn’t make it this time because evidently, his band was, like, um, gallivanting across the country…
If you’ve been reading the Backbeat blog, then you know that the Denver scene is en fuego right now, muchachos. Muy caliente! The amount of attention that’s being paid to our city is kind of stunning. And it’s coming from across the national media, with a different act getting face…
Recognize the dudes pictured above? If you do, then you’re probably pretty stoked right now. That’s right — Built to Spill will be headlining this year’s Showcase. Hold on. There’s more… you know we always have more than one act on the mainstage, right? Well, how about some Mudhoney? (No,…
All right, so we’ve been promising/threatening to launch this feature for quite some time now. Well, here it finally is. And bygod what better way to set things off than with the complete live recordings of Dualistics’ Nirvana tribute show this past weekend? With the blessing of our good friend…
In the May 2009 issue of Alternative Press, the Photo Atlas is the subject of two write-ups, one detailing the band’s trajectory since parting ways with Stolen Transmission, its previous label, and the other is in the form of a a four (out of five) star review of the act’s…
