Fresh off sharing a bill with Of Monsters and Men and fun. at KTCL’s annual Not So Silent Night at 1STBANK Center just before the holidays last month, Churchill sent word this morning that it had to postpone its show at the Ogden Theatre, originally slated for Saturday, February 9,…
Update 1/17/13: Full interview with Yonnas Abraham added below. Always check your spam filter. If there’s one thing we can learn from BLKHRTS — who, as you’ve undoubtedly deduced by now if you’ve been monitoring your Twitter feeds and Facebook status updates this morning, have signed a deal with ORG…
After successive runs at Rock Bar, where it was founded in 2008, Shag, Paris Wine Bar and the Meadowlark, where it eventually set up shop in 2010, the Mile High Soul Club is on the move again, this time to Beauty Bar on 13th Avenue. According to Tyler Jacobson, who…
A number of new shows have been announced this week since our weekly Mile Highlights post dropped on Tuesday, and they all go on sale this weekend, so we thought you should know about them. Among the new dates, we’ve got shows at the Gothic (Billy Bragg, Cold War Kids,…
Update: Congratulations to Cerealluna, stephenjpack, misscrystalized and beatrix.love! You’ve each won two tickets to Artopia. Check your email for more details on how to claim them. Original post: This year’s edition of Artopia is just over a month away. The lineup is pretty stacked, with Wheelchair Sports Camp, Hearts In…
So What is Denver’s longest running club night. While there’s been a few hiatuses here and there over the years as the night transitioned from venue to venue, for the most part, So What has been an ongoing concern for twenty years. Twenty years! On the surface, that might not…
Welcome back to the Name Game, the periodic Backbeat feature in which we check in with a local act and ask members to share the story behind their nom de tune (if there is one) to find out how and why they chose their handle and to spell out any…
Twenty years ago this Saturday night in the basement of City Spirit on 14th and Blake, DJ K-Nee hosted the very first edition of So What! with DJ L7-Square. Little did K-Nee know back then that So What! would not only go on to become Denver’s longest running club night,…
Alright, so, admittedly, you’re going to have to suspend disbelief a little as we frame this next item, and you’ll need to operate under the premise that A) time travel is a reality, and B) the internet existed in the mainstream realm in 1983. Got it? Okay, good. Now imagine…
Just before Christmas, the folks behind SnowBall Music Festival began revealing the lineup for the third edition of their annual mountain music festival, which is moving to Winter Park this year from its previous location in Avon. Pretty Lights, Big Gigantic, Kendrick Lamar and Zion I were among the first…
Organizers for Communikey (aka CMKY, Boulder’s annual electronic music festival) have revealed the first part of the lineup for this year’s festival, which is slated to take place from Thursday, April 25, through Sunday, April 28. A limited number of $100 passes for the sixth edition of the four-day festival…
The Lumineers are virtually inescapable these days — in the world of music, obviously, but also in the realm of pop culture: From being in constant radio rotation across the nation to being name-dropped as a part of incidental plot lines on TV shows like Nashville, the Denver-based, Grammy-nominated act…
Last fall on the 35th anniversary of his death, we rounded up all of the best local Elvis Presley stories we could find. We spoke with Nick Andurlakis of Nick’s Cafe, and he told us all about how Fool’s Gold Loaf, Elvis’s favorite sandwich, was conceived, and he regaled us…
Congrats are due to the Boulder Outlook Hotel and the Colorado Blues Society, which have both earned nods from the Blues Foundation. On Friday, February 1 in Memphis, both groups will be one of fifteen organizations honored with a Keeping the Blues Alive Award, a prestigious award meant to honor…
Update: Julian Anderson’s memorial service was held on Saturday, January 5, at Mile High Church; it was well attended and quite touching. A number of folks got up and shared their memories of Julian, including close friends and former bandmates, and even his doctor. Julian was clearly very loved and…
Like life, some of the best moments in music just happen, unplanned, unscripted and completely serendipitous. Such is the case with “New Beginning,” the brand-new cut just dropped by a collection of talented friends from Denver’s hip-hop scene. According to Mane Rok, who collaborated on the track with Riley Boone,…
Update: Julian Anderson’s memorial service was held on Saturday, January 5, at Mile High Church; it was well attended and quite touching. A number of folks got up and shared their memories of Julian, including close friends and former bandmates, and even his doctor. Julian was clearly very loved and…
Some sad news coming out of Texas this morning. We’ve just got word that Mike Scaccia of Rigor Mortis and Ministry has died at the age of 47. Last night in Fort Worth Texas, Scaccia reportedly collapsed on stage during a performance with his band Rigor Mortis and was subsequently…
Ah, yes, with Denver looking like the inside of a snow globe right now, it seems only fitting for the folks at SnowBall Music Festival to reveal the first part of the lineup for the third edition of their annual mountain music festival. EDM and hip-hop heads will be stoked…
As pretty much anybody here can attest, DeVotchKa’s music is already plenty bewitching and enthralling on its own. So you can only imagine how amazing it sounds with the accompaniment of the Colorado Symphony Orchestra. If you caught the act with the CSO at its pair of performances this past…
From seeing the band’s old-school Orange-evoking emblem on their shirts, we had already suspected that the Speedwolf dudes were big Broncos fans when we reached out to frontman Reed Bruemmer last season for tips to avoid screaming ourselves hoarse for the, uh, horse. Those suspicions were instantly confirmed when he…
On Friday, Ryan Tedder from OneRepublic was sitting a hotel room in San Francisco, struggling with some powerful emotions. It was anger at first, anger at the inexplicable deaths of more than two dozen first graders and their teachers in Newtown, Connecticut. But like the rest of us, that fury…
