Four years ago, when we last checked in with the members of Fear Before the March of Flames, arguably one of Colorado’s most compelling bands, they were just a few years out of high school and all still staying with their folks. The guys eventually moved into a six-bedroom house…
Is anyone else here astounded that these two groups still have enough cachet to fill amphitheaters? Wait — allow me to revise that question: Is anyone else dumbfounded that Poison can still pack a place the size of Fiddler’s? (Let’s be honest: Bret Michaels and the boys are being charitable…
Shearwater, Wye Oak Sunday, August 31, 2008 hi-dive Better Than: Most shows I’ve seen this year. When I walked into hi-dive, Wye Oak was already playing (I think it was “Warning” or “Orchard Fair”). From the thickly layered guitar sound, though, I thought for a moment that it could’ve just…
Triclops, The Nod Saturday, August 30, 2008 Lion’s Lair, Denver Better Than: A full line-up of stoner rock bands. With a name like “The Nod,” I expected a druggy, stoner rock band and not much more. Not that that vibe wasn’t prevalent in the music, but there were a few…
Dixie Chicks not ready to make nice… or get dressed, evidently, on the cover of Enterainment Weekly. Okay, so last night I was sitting around watching the RNC as Fred Thompson was offering up an impassioned screed about the character of John McCain, citing the unbelievable torture he endured during…
Do you hear that? That’s the sound of people actually working. Weird, huh? And it’s been this way for at least a month now, since the DenverMessageBoard.com went the way of pager technology. That’s when I first noticed, anyway, thanks to a pesky Trojan virus I’m nearly positive that I…
This just in: In case you’ve somehow managed to to miss the thousands of inescapable national trend pieces floating around on the subject, vinyl is evidently making a comeback. And now it seems the backwards-glancing craze has made its way to the local scene. And we couldn’t be happier, friends…
Nine Inch Nails/Deerhunter Tuesday, September 2, 2008 Red Rocks Amphitheatre Better Than: The last time I saw NIN, when I was in the nosebleeds at the Pepsi Center and could barely hear. I arrived at Red Rocks last night under threatening skies (would any other sort be appropriate for a…
I know it’s not over yet, but I’m pretty sure that 2008 is gonna go down as the year of the break up. Here are some of the acts that called it a day: Planes Mistaken for Stars, Machine Gun Blues, the Brotherhood of Dae Han, Whiskey Kiss, Fight Like…
ZZ Top rolls into the Paramount on Halloween. The bad new first: After already canceling shows once at the Ogden Theatre, Bow Wow and Bootsy Collins both canceled their shows a second time. The good news: the Fox Theatre announced Matisyahu’s November 30 show and added a second Galactic show…
It’s been a hellacious day over here at Backbeat HQ. I’ve been busier than a one-eyed cat keeping watch over two mouse holes. In addition to digging out from a litany of e-mails leftover from last week’s DNC onslaught and from the long weekend, I’ve spent the day putting the…
Alright, alright, admitedly, the headline of this post is a little misleading. By no means am I a political analyst, nor am I even going to pretend to be. I have my own thoughts on Barack Obama’s speech, but I’m gonna go ahead and leave the analytical dissection to far…
By Friday morning, most of the big names from the DNC, Hollywood and the traveling press will have packed up their bags and headed for home (or the Twin Cities for the RNC). But for those of you who just aren’t quite ready to let it go, you’ve got one…
Moby’s been in town all week, in case you haven’t noticed (we haven’t really paid any attention, to tell you the truth). Evidently, he’s been drinking coffee at the Brown Palace, which he thinks sounds like some sort of Berlin club for shit fetishists, and when he’s not doing that,…
Yonder Mountain String band has scored, hands down, the coolest gig of the entire DNC and perhaps its career. Tonight the Nederland-based act will be performing at Invesco prior to Barack Obama’s acceptance speech, alongside Stevie Wonder, Sheryl Crow and will.i.am. Don’t know how the band managed to make it…
Good grief, man! Can you believe the amount of star-fucking going on in this town right now? Seriously, it’s pathetic. Are we really so celebrity-starved that all it takes is some barely-worth-mentioning B-lister to get us frothing at the mouth? Actually, I shouldn’t say us. I honestly can’t say that…
This photo just popped into my e-mail box from my dude Chris Gray at our sister paper in Houston. Matt Sonzala, the man behind the Houston So Real blog, snapped this pic of Bun B from UGK straight flossin’ at Pepsi Center and sent it to Chris this afternoon. Now…
The Rock the Vote Denver 2008 show slated to take place this Friday afternoon at Sculpture Park has reportedly been moved to the Denver skate park. No word on why the show has been relocated, but were tipped off to the switch from one of the bands on the local-centric,…
RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE @ DENVER COLISEUM | 8/27/08 Live blog: 11:10 a.m. Wednesday, August 27, 2008: It’s just after 11 a.m., and things are just getting underway at the Denver Coliseum. State Radio just took the stage and is in the midst of playing an energetic set in front…
It’s hard to not to be a bit star-struck when Al Green starts singing the first verse of “Let’s Stay Together” on the phone from his home in Memphis, or even just talking to him. But Green has a way to make a guy feel at ease and about thirty…
“Don’t you think there should be some sort of law where you can’t have nuclear bombs unless you can pronounce ‘nuclear’?” said David Crosby.
Today started out like any other day: 6 a.m. coffee, a couple of smokes, some news and left overs from the night before. I turned on the TV and flipped to MSNBC, because that was the one big news network that I happened to see setting up Sunday afternoon by…
