The Fray performed the national anthem at the NCAA championship last night, and like most songs the boys cover, they made it their own. There was nothing inherently wrong with their performance, except that, well, if you’re a purist, there was everything wrong with their performance. Really, is it too…

SP Double just wants to keep it moving. The MC (aka Adrian Perlman) has endured his share of personal travails and had enough beef with other rappers to fill a warehouse. But all of that’s in the rearview now; he’d rather focus on what’s ahead. Just the same, he’s smart…

Update 3/30/12: Photo of Nading-Presley Memorial Gym plaque added. Jonny Barber is troubled. Last week, the former Velvet Elvis, the Mile High City’s expert Elvis channeler and resident Elvistorian received news that the building that used to house the Nading-Presley Memorial Gym, which The King generously helped build for the…

See Also: – Meet Dave Staff, Denver’s seventy-year-old karaoke king – Denver’s ten best karaoke bars “I have done nothing wrong,” pleads/demands the drunken dude in the back of this Canadian squad car at the beginning of this clip. And while that may or may not be true, what he’s…

So, speaking of Big Head Todd and the Monsters, whose namesake frontman, as we told you about yesterday, is selling his Washington Park bungalow, do you know who’s all sorts of sweet on the band? Bill Murray. Yes, that Bill Murray. Well, that’s what we’ve deduced anyway. Either that, or…

In this week’s print edition, you’ll notice the conspicuous absence of 4 Questions, the always entertaining and brilliantly illustrated comic strip from Backbeat’s resident genius (no, seriously, we hear he’s a card-carrying member of Mensa — or maybe he knows somebody who is, we can never remember) Noah Van Sciver…

While the Zillow.com listing for the house at 1323 South Lafayette is suitably informative (from the basic descriptors — two bedrooms, three bathrooms, 2,430 square feet, built in 1920, fireplace — to the intangibles, “amazing location for this contemporary remodel,” it says, “only three houses from Wash Park…”), it leaves…

You might remember that, just over a year ago, we posted a bit about the Western States Arts Federation’s (WESTAF) TourWest program. We misunderstood the impetus of the program and mistakenly noted that the funds were earmarked specifically for helping local musicians finance their tour endeavors. While we later learned…

Brace yourself: This is probably the coolest thing in the world we’ve seen, hands down, since the invention of the Smokey Amp. If you haven’t seen it yet, this is the Marshall Fridge, and it’s precisely what it sounds like, a refrigerator fashioned to resemble a Marshall stack, complete with…

Florida, long known as ground-zero for death metal and all that comes with it, is home to Tampa-based Deicide, who stopped by the Bluebird Theater over the weekend with Lecherous Nocturne and Jungle Rot. Brandon Marshall, our resident metal-head was at the show and snapped some shots of the band’s…

Attention, die-hard Lucero fans (are there any other kind?): You’ve probably already caught wind of this, but just in case you haven’t, this Saturday, March 31, Lucero frontman Ben Nichols will be at Illegal Pete’s in LoDo with Rick Steff for a very special eat and greet performance. The band,…

Brad Paisley to Tim Tebow…are you there, Tim Tebow? This just in: Evidently, you have some other suitors who are interested in you besides New York and Jacksonville, Timmy. Brad Paisley — you remember him, right, the dude who pulled you up on stage back in January at the Pepsi…

Last November, you might recall, Chris “Citrus” Sauthoff (U.S. Pipe, Lord of Word, P-Funk) suffered a minor stroke, and as a result, the gifted guitarist lost some of the feeling in his picking hand. “It was one of the scariest times I’ve ever had in my life,” recalls Sauthoff’s wife,…

With Blue Like Jazz, the screen adaptation of Donald Miller’s New York Times best-selling book, Steve Taylor has done for film exactly what he did for music in the early to mid-’80s — namely, give the staid world of Christian-centric art a much needed jolt of vitality. In the same…