Update 10/26/12: Contest is over. Congratulations to Jason Dalrymple. He and a guest will be our guests at the show Saturday night. Thanks to everybody else for the entries, and for reading Backbeat! Beats Antique is back in town this weekend for a show tomorrow night at the Fillmore Auditorium…
Update 10/26/12: Contest is over. Congratulations to Lisa Huerta. She and a guest will be our guests at tonight’s Grace Potter and the Nocturnals show at the Fillmore, and thanks to everybody else for the entries! Tomorrow night at the Fillmore Auditorium Grace Potter and the Nocturnals, a longtime favorite…
Word of Rockbar’s closure yesterday has been met with a variety of reactions from readers, ranging from those joining in on a chorus of good riddance on our Cafe Society blog to folks like emily225, who no doubt speaking for a good section of the nightlife community, put it simply:…
With the pageantry of their presentation and the overwhelming ostentatiousness of their personas, it’s easy to forget that the members of Gwar are actual people — not mere caricatures, but beings made of flesh and blood, with feelings and emotions like the rest of us. And that’s kind of the…
It’s the end of an era. This news comes on the heels of the Lancer Lounge’s closing, and word that Bender’s Tavern and the hi-dive are changing hands: After this weekend, Rockbar is going dark. Spurred by the city’s recent decision not to renew Rockbar’s liquor license, which expired at…
If the Lumineers haven’t already gone supernova, by god, they’re about to. The locally-based outfit, which got its start humbly playing shows at the Meadowlark, just received word that their hit single “Ho Hey” has officially sold one million copies, while the self-titled album the song appears on is close…
So as many people were stoked for the Romney/Ryan Victory Rally last night at Red Rocks (more than ten thousand folks reportedly showed up and thousands were turned away), not everybody was jazzed for the event, including a group of commenters. “Interesting that a dude who got his start in…
Last night at Red Rocks, presidential hopefuls Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan held their optimistically titled Victory Rally at Red Rocks. More than 10,000 people reportedly showed up and thousands were turned away. Kid Rock and Rodney Atkins both played a batch of acoustic songs. According to Brandon Marshall who…
Safe Boating is No Accident’s Leighton Peterson and the estimable gents behind the laudably local music series Brass Tree Sessions are preparing to embark on the second season of their live performance series. We’ve got a sneak peek of the first episode, featuring Snake Rattle Rattle Snake, recorded this past…
Colorado is a swing state, apparently. Our vote will be key in helping decide who the next leader of the free world is. It’s all up to us and some people from Ohio — oh, and our, uh, meemaw in south Florida, evidently. Who knew, right? We only know this,…
Okay, so just when we thought we heard the last chords ring out for the year at Red Rocks comes word that the hills will once again be alive without the sound of music tomorrow night. There’s another show slated for the Rocks, and this one’s rather last minute and…
Big Head Todd and the Monsters already devote a good deal of time and energy to charity-related events and organizations. But when the outfit plays an intimate show at the Soiled Dove Underground this Friday, October 26 (with Johnny Hickman from Cracker, who’s opening the show), it will be for…
Okay, something truly disturbing is happening right now on the radio — and, no, we’re not talking about that inescapable, goddamned “Call Me Maybe” tune (though that song can suck it, too!). No, there’s something far more troubling being broadcast right now on the 103.1 frequency on the FM dial…
This weekend, Christian Martin is coming to NORAD Dance Bar. And while this was noteworthy enough to us to feature Martin’s appearance in this week’s Scratchin the Surface, if you ask NORAD owner Preston Douglas, there’s a bigger, much more important reason to head to his club this weekend. A…
When the Deftones came storming onto the scene in the mid-’90s, they were initially filed in with the much-maligned so-called nu-metal scene. A broad, all-encompassing term that applied to any metal act blending disparate elements into its music, nu metal proved to be an albatross for the Deftones, as it…
The hi-dive is in the process of changing hands. Rest easy, though: We know the new owners, and we like them. A lot. And trust us, so do you. Like the place they’re taking over, these dudes and their investors have got plenty of history in the scene, from playing…
Update 10/16/12: Contest is over. Congrats to James Baetke. You and a guest will be our guests at tomorrow night’s screening. Check your email for details on how to pick up your passes. Next Wednesday, Led Zeppelin: Celebration Day is being screened for one night only at Harkins Theatres Northfield…
If you’re reading this right now, you’re probably at work (if so, hang in there. It’s almost Friday) and this little tidbit of information isn’t going to do you much good — well, unless you have a Slingbox or that fancypants doohickey that lets you can control your DVR remotely…
Update 10/9/12: Contest is over. Congratulations to our winners, Leigh Kinealy and Hermes Solomon. Check your e-mail for details on how to claim your tickets — and thanks to everybody else for the other entries and for reading Backbeat. Good morning! And, oh, what a good morning it is! If…
The Twins of Evil Tour last night at 1STBANK Center featuring Rob Zombie and Marilyn Manson drew an ardent array of fans from all walks of life, all united by their unrelenting love and devotion of Zombie and Manson. Eric Gruneisen had the profound pleasure of meeting many of these…
Update: Contest is over. Scott Rudderham is our winner. Thanks for reading Backbeat. Aw, yeah! More free tickets! Got plans for this weekend? You do now. K.Flay is coming to the Marquis Theater this Saturday, and we’ve got a pair of tickets up for grabs. Want the hookup? Would you…
Tomorrow night, the Twins of Evil Tour pulls into Colorado for a show at 1STBANK Center featuring co-headliners Rob Zombie and Marilyn Manson, two of the more diabolical, intelligent and entertaining figures in mainstream music. Tom Murphy, our resident interviewer extraordinaire, recently spoke with both Zombie and Manson and had…
