Celebrating 25 years of making music, Widespread Panic is setting out on its first-ever acoustic tour, which includes a three-night stand from Friday, February 10, to Sunday, February 12, at the Fillmore Auditorium. That stint will be followed up by a three-night stand from Friday, February 17, through Sunday, February…
If you read the Backbeat interview with Five Finger Death Punch’s Ivan Moody last week, you know he still thinks of Denver as home. And on Saturday night, Moody and his band — along with All That Remains and Hatebreed — played the 1STBANK Center in Broomfield. Resident metal-head and…
Finally! A little over a month after we posted word letting you know that Guns N’ Roses was headed to Colorado for its first tour in five years, we have a date. Mark your calendars: GNR (or at least whatever incarnation of the group Axl’s fronting these days) is coming…
TRENTEMØLLER at the OGDEN THEATRE | 10/21/11Though certainly not the dark horse by any electronic music connoisseur’s standards, Trentemøller’s performance Friday night at the Ogden Theatre was one for the books. Ribbon banners, flash-popping strobes, projectors, and a full five-piece band backed the Danish IDM musician, whose pass through Denver…
Update 10/21/11: More troubling news today out of the Springs. There’s been several reports filtering in last night and this afternoon that Aliester Wild guitarist Terry Span has passed away. We’ll post more details as they become available. Original item (10/12/11): There’s some troubling news coming out of the Springs…
Have plans this weekend? If not, as usual, there’s plenty of choices: Tonight, Jason Aldean’s at the Pepsi Center, Jim Hall’s at Dazzle and All Capitals is celebrating the release of its new CD at the hi-dive. On Saturday, Five Finger Death Punch hits the 1STBANK Center, Rene Marie’s at…
In 2009, a class action lawsuit was filed against Ticketmaster by ticket buyers who were automatically redirected by Ticketmaster to TicketsNow.com, a reseller charging prices above face value. Between 2008 and 2009, ticket buyers across the country purchasing tickets for shows by acts like Bruce Springsteen, Miley Cyrus and Radiohead,…
Danish sensation Trentmøller will make a rare Stateside appearance at the Ogden Theatre tonight; the former Trigbag member is back and better than ever after releasing Into the Great Wide Yonder in 2010. (9 p.m., 16+, $22-$25) And that’s far from the only thing happening in electronic music this weekend;…
For close to three decades, Bob and Cathy Lyons ran the no-frills, nautical-themed Brown Barrel Tavern at 76 South Broadway. The bar was one of the last old-school joints in the Baker neighborhood, an area that was once full of them, and earned a nod in our Best of Denver…
We imagine this has been a pretty bittersweet week for the members of Gauntlet Hair. After being stranded in Montreal for a few days due to a busted van, the dudes have finally made it to New York just in time for CMJ. Though the repairs to the van left…
Herman’s Hideaway, celebrating its 29th anniversary next month, recently received some upgrades, including a new dance floor, new LED lighting system, a disco ball and a new Soundcraft Series Two soundboard, which soundman Danny Giltinan has been putting to good use. The men’s bathroom was also remodeled. Page down for…
Although Primus was last in Denver only back in August, opening for the Flaming Lips at Red Rocks, the San Francisco band and ’90s radio staple took top billing for two nights in Denver this week at the Ogden Theatre. See photos from the show below…
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…
The Colorado Symphony Orchestra is struggling: it’s over $1 million short on cash; its musicians are seeing massive pay cuts; and twenty of its board members (read: big donors) have left. The CSO cut five programs, which totaled ten shows, from now through early-December and brought back old personnel to…
The Photo Atlas has been hard at work on a new record. While there’s been a few EPs released since then, this untitled effort is slated to be the band’s first full-length since 2007’s No, Not Me, Never on Stolen Transmission. The album isn’t finished yet and won’t be released…
After hearing two choruses of Charlie Christian’s solo on Benny Goodman’s “Grand Slam” in a record store, a thirteen-year old Jim Hall had a spiritual awakening of sorts. “That’s what I wanted to do,” Hall, now eighty, says about first hearing the song. “It was such a perfect solo —…
The space at 1434 Blake Street that was home to the legendary City Spirit in the ’90s has seen plenty of turnover in the past decade: from Andrew’s Pub & Lounge to Lure Lounge to SportsBook to Pre-Game Sports Bar, which lasted for only a few months before closing last…
Guitarist Paul Christus and drummer Tony Corona should be given some kind of medal for weathering numerous lineup changes over the years and sticking to their guns. With their long-running band, all capitals, these two guys have rearranged the roster more times than Spinal Tap, but they’ve never given up…
Anders Trentemøller has been turning the electronic-music world on its head since 1997, when he made his debut with DJ T.O.M. as Trigbag, the first live house act in Denmark. After a self-imposed hiatus of several years, he re-entered the fray and has since released music to wide critical acclaim…
Spencer Krug is probably best known to the world as a former member of Montreal’s Wolf Parade. Since that band took a break, Krug has been prolific, to say the very least. In addition to having been a member Frog Eyes, he’s currently still a member of Sunset Rubdown and…
Sweden’s Opeth started out as a fairly straightahead death-metal band, but in 1992, after drastic lineup changes, the band, led by singer and guitarist Mikael Åkerfeldt, slowly developed the sound it would bring to its 1995 debut, Orchid. Sonically, Opeth recalls ’70s art-rock bands like Jethro Tull mixed with late-’80s…
The fraught waters of “world music” have dashed many a well-intentioned album upon the rocks of pandering contrivance and misguided condescension. But that’s never been the case for Paul Simon. Over the course of his nearly six-decade career, Simon has never shied from appropriating ethnic textures and rhythms for songs…
