Win tickets to see GRiZ at the Fox Theatre

Fresh on the heels of supporting Big Gigantic at Red Rocks a few weekends ago comes word that GRiZ will be headlining a show of his own at the recently renovated Fox Theatre. ThisSongIsSick announced the show on Friday, and it sold out in six hours. We have a pair…

The ten best concerts this weekend: October 5-7

Welcome to the weekend, amigos! Cold enough for you this morning? Yeah, we’re feeling all sorts of brrrrrr over here. Only in Colorado can you go from eighty degrees to the thirties in the expanse of a couple of days. Alas, though, there’s relief on the horizion, plenty of hot…

Backbeat’s top five spins, week of October 1-7

As people who think about, talk about, write about, listen to and make music, it shouldn’t be too surprising to find that the most common (and our mutually favorite) topic of conversation among all of us is the same: “What are you listening to right now?” Stick a quarter in…

Thirty years in, the 16th Street Mall is still going strong

Thirty years ago this week, amid launches of balloons and speeches and other emissions of hot air, Denver’s 16th Street Mall was officially declared open for business. It was the beginning of a new era for downtown merchants and office workers, the first big move by a voracious transit empire…

The five best concerts this week: October 1-5

Welcome to Rawktober! The month is getting kicked off with a bang tomorrow night at 1STBANK Center with the Twins of Evil Tour featuring Rob Zombie and Marilyn Manson, and the rest of the week is shaping up to be pretty stellar, too, with some dubstep and doom metal shows…

Land of Lincoln: Restaurant roll call for September

The Denver dining scene saw plenty of action in September — much of it in the 900 block of Lincoln Street, where Japoix finally gave up the ghost in that haunted spot in the Beauvallon that had previously swallowed up Nine75. But other outfits haven’t been discouraged from the area,…

Go gaga tonight: Free screening of Lady Gaga: The Monster Mall Tour

Did you miss Lady Gaga’s last tour? Don’t worry. Tonight you can catch HBO’s Lady Gaga: The Monster Ball Tour documentary that was filmed at Madison Square Garden, complete with Gaga’s many-colored wigs and famed fire-shooting bra — but without the inflated ticket price. Eden will project the film and…

Six ways the Big Blue Bear could make over his image

Since 2005, “I See What You Mean,” arguably Denver’s most beloved piece of public art, has been photographed, imitated and miniaturized. The sculpture outside of the Colorado Convention Center, nicknamed the Big Blue Bear, has been laughed at, loved, lingered over, tagged with a yarn-made ball and chain and pranked…

Goldrush Music Festival at Deer Pile, 9/21-9/22

GOLDRUSH 2 @ DEER PILE | 9/21/12-9/22/2012 By Leya Lynette and Tom Murphy The hype around Goldrush 2 had not been identical to that of Goldrush 1. The original crew that did the booking had changed, and the festival this year focused on more under-the-radar acts from around the country…

Photos: Denver’s twenty best rock fists

It is a universally acknowledged truth that there’s no better way to measure stokedness than the rock fist. Three upturned fingers and an angry grin are all you need to indicate your appreciation for a rowdy show — and Denver has a lot of those. Looking back through our slide…

Twenty best pirate costumes of BrethrenCon 2012

Ahoy, mateys! Perfectly timed to follow September 19’s Talk Like a Pirate Day, Denver’s annual pirate convention sailed into the Red Lion Hotel over the weekend. For three days, the scallywags, their wenches and other pirate friends celebrated the high crimes of the high seas — in costumes. Continue reading…