Update (10/19): Ah, yes. That explains it. According to Chris K., host of Colorado Sound and longtime friend of Backbeat, evidently, Colorado Rocks!: Five Decades of Rock Music History, is out of print, thus the hefty price tag we spied at the Goodwill over the weekend. “I had to buy…
Update 10/19: Congrats to Brian Robl and Veronica Espinoza. You and a guest will be our guest at tonight’s show. Send us an email for details on how to claim your tickets. Thanks to everybody else who entered! Okay, metalheads, while we’re sure that most of you already have your…
If there’s anything we’ve learned in our hundreds of years blogging, it’s that American Idol fans are nothing if not loyal, passionate, outspoken and quick to defend the honor of whatever idol they happen to have a Google alert set for at the expense of disparaging any fellow alums they…
Ivan Moody may live in Vegas these days, but Denver will always be the place he considers home. Before moving to L.A. and fronting Motograter and then Five Finger Death Punch, Moody grew up here. At one time or another, he was a student at Alameda and Chatfield high schools…
This was bound to happen sooner or later, the day when Comment of the Day went meta on us. Friday’s comment of the day from Nick Hammerberg of Petals of Spain about The Foot.’s cover of Adele’s “Rolling In the Deep” inspired a rather snarky jab at Adele from Hipi…
By now you’ve had a chance to get a gander at our picks for this weekend’s best shows. If pressed, we’d have to say that the one we’d probably recommend the most features Boris at the Marquis Theater. After reading Tom Murphy’s interview with Atsuo Mizuno has us even more…
Great news if you’ve been waiting your whole adult life to attend an Adult Swim Block Party: Here’s your chance. The network is planning to rock the block in Fort Collins (specifically, Walnut Street between Linden and Mountain in Old Town) on Thursday, November 10, from 7-11 p.m. If the…
If you’ve got a wicked sensation right now in your rock nerve, there’s good reason for that: George Lynch is back in town for a benefit show. After a full day’s activiities, including a poker run, a 5K walk, plus a dinner and auction to benefit Dave Lucero, who’s been…
While were not going to say that everybody necessarily holds such a high opinion of one another in this town — because we all know that’s just not true — the music scene in this town tends to be pretty collegial. So when we wrote about that new Adele cover…
Michael Trundle’s plate isn’t just filled these days. It’s overflowing to the point where he’s dropping crap everywhere — but he’s dropping it like it’s hot. While he’s preparing for a trip to the Big Apple next week for the Live4Ever official CMJ showcase, where he’ll perform as boyhollow alongside…
Feeling wistful for the tepid days of no-frills, interchangeable, middle-of-the-road, radio-rock from yesterday? Boy are you in luck! We’ve just received word of a free concert being brought to you by the fine folks at CU-Boulder’s Program Council taking place up in Boulder at the Glenn Miller Ballroom on Sunday,…
If you haven’t heard this yet, the Foot. turns in such a convincing cover of Adele’s “Rolling In the Deep,” that we thought the dudes were simply lip-synching to the original at first. Spoiler alert: They’re not. While it would’ve been far more gratifying if the outfit would’ve twisted it…
What does the BBC have in common with CPT12, our beloved public-television station? Well, not much, now that you mention it, except for some quality programming here and there — and now, Nathaniel Rateliff. The celebrated, homegrown songwriter, who appeared on Later With Jools Holland earlier this year, is slated…
Since time immemorial — or at least since there’s been nightlife in this town — club-goers have been bemoaning the fact that the Mile High effectively shuts down at 2 a.m. In our interview with Pete Tong yesterday, he noted that Beta attracts a later crowd that absolutely rages for…
If you haven’t seen this yet, the Morning Clouds, the subject of this week’s profile, have a new video for the song “A Walk Home,” from their forthcoming debut, Wasted Youth Blues, released this week on Lefse. The clip, which premiered last week on Fader, is the handiwork of Richard…
Update (10/31/11): See photos from Playing Apart, this past weekend’s one-of-a-kind performance art spectacle in lower downtown Denver. Um, yeah, so this sounds positively awesome. There’s an event planned for Saturday, October 29 dubbed “Playing Apart,” in which an entire ninety-piece marching band from Bear Creek High School is going…
Despite the fact that he’s the only original member, Billy Corgan has managed to keep the Smashing Pumpkins going year after year. Whether this is a good or bad thing is probably as endlessly debatable as whether or not the band is still relevant. With regard to the latter: the…
In third-quarter, year-to-date figures compiled and reported by Pollstar, the industry trade that tracks various clubs and venues across the globe, Denver and Boulder made a very strong showing on Pollstar’s list of Top 100 Clubs Venues, which is ranked order of ticket sales from January 1, 2011, through September…
Update (10/11/11): With eight hours left to go, Wheelchair Sports Camp has reached its $1,200 goal with the graciousness of 47 people who pitched in to help. Brace yourself, NYC: Here come Heffernan and company. Original item (10/6/11, 8 a.m.): This year’s CMJ Music Marathon is less than two weeks…
Update (2/7/12): Isaac Slade and Joe King give a track-by-track breakdown of Scars & Stories, the Fray’s new album. The Fray’s new Brendan O’Brien-produced album, which frontman Isaac Slade spoke with us about at length this past spring, now officially has a title (Scars & Stories) and a release date…
Update (11:02 a.m.): So what initially appeared to be a unfortunate automobile accident that caused damage to the front of Wax Trax just became even more unfortunate: We’ve learned from Denver Police Department spokesman Sonny Jackson that the alcohol-related collision resulted in a fatality. Read the full story: “Man being…
When the Misfits played at the Summit Music Hall over the weekend, there was no shortage of face paint, spikes and skeletons wrapped around mikes. Dependably, the fanfare was there, even if the band only has one original member and seems to have lost a step. H.P. McGregor, who posted…
