Concerts

A festival that began in Los Angeles a decade ago, the International Pop Overthrow now goes down throughout the year in over a dozen cities in North America, highlighting acts from each local music community…

With the help of the Clown from Slipknot, KBPI has wrapped its annual Best Band in Denver competition. Besting fellow finalists Bullet Inc and 20XIII, as well as more than a dozen other contenders, Novus Folium earned this year’s title, joining the pantheon of past winners Adam’s Ruin, Lost Point,…

Hot on the heels of a profile in 5280 magazine, nightclub impresario Regas Christou has made some real news: He’s filed suit against Beatport, Brad Roulier, Beta and AM Only. While we haven’t had a chance to pore over the entire brief, which was filed yesterday in U.S. District Court,…

Tonight at Forest Room , in conjunction with the fine folks at Speaker Snacks, the members of Snake Rattle Rattle Snake are hosting a low-key viewing party for their new video, Dead Men’s Words, directed by local director extraordinaire Vincent Comparetto (Gamits, Planes Mistaken for Stars, Ian Cooke, Hot IQs)…

This item’s a little close to home, but the news is too noteworthy not to share: The Fire Drills have a new frontman. The outfit, which features longtime Backbeat contributor Jason Heller, has tapped renowned funnyman and former 29th Street Disciples frontman Ben Roy to take over lead vocals…

A little over a month ago, we wrote about the impending reinvention of The Pirate Signal and reported that frontman Yonnas Abraham would be shortening his own stage name to just Yo, followed by various punctuation, to be determined by the context. Well, now it seems his other outfit, Blackhearts,…

Though David Guetta is all the rage these days in terms of house DJs gone mainstream, Mark Knight isn’t too far behind. The U.K. house producer shares production credit with Guetta for “Rock That Body,” one of the bigger tracks this year by the seemingly unstoppable Black Eyed Peas. With…

There were a few changes in the Denver bar and club scene last month, including the opening of Toby Keith’s I Love This Bar & Grill, the Rockstar Lounge and Rock-A-Billies. Read on for our bars and clubs roll call for November:…

NO AGE With Hot White and Lucky Dragons 12.01.10 | Bluebird Theater Hot White was first on stage and discharged its signature shards of angular, off-kilter, eruptive sound. It looked like the trio was more comfortable playing a big stage, and yet Tiana Bernard crossed over from stage right to…

As singer, guitarist and keyboardist for A Shoreline Dream, Ryan Policky helped sculpt that band’s lush “melodipsych” rock. In the Parallel Light, Policky teams up with Eddie Breidenbach, organist for the garage-rock band the Omens, to do something very different from what both players were doing previously. On Evans, the…

Singer-songwriter Julia Bryan’s first full-length release, Still Burning, burns brightest when the powerful simplicity of her voice is isolated from the rest of her band. Songs like “Let You Go” and “Crave” bring these strong solo reverberations to the surface, fluctuating between Bryan’s soft whisper and her wavering howl. No…

Visual artist and Modern Witch member Mario Zoots inadvertently explained the meaning behind Witch House a few weeks ago, and now Pictureplane, who coined the term, has given us The 13 essential rules of Witch House, which he created at the request of Znaki. We’ve attempted to decipher this edict…

So we came across this gem last week at the Roger Waters concert. Although you can’t see it here in the thumbnail to the right, there’s a word bubble that reads: “I need a ticket!” Judging by the fact that we found this elaborately scrawled piece of cardboard abandoned and…

Colorado Springs’ slide guitar-playing bluesman Grant Sabin is truly a throwback. The multi-instrumentalist’s baby face contradicts both his gruff voice and his repertoire, which includes not only his own modern work, but tributes to Son House and Jimi Hendrix, as well…

Things just keep getting worse for media pirates. In the last year, we’ve seen Google tackle music blogs, Limewire go the way of the dodo, and Pirate Bay’s appeal thwarted. Now the U.S. government is getting involved. Last week, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) seized domains from Torrent-Finder, OnSmash.com, RapGodfathers.com,…

John McLaughlin says he was nervous as a kitten and had sweat pouring down his back the first time he played with Miles Davis on the In a Silent Way sessions in 1969. McLaughlin had just moved to the United States from England to join Tony Williams’s Lifetime group when…

Jay Chadrom has spiced things up at Opal, his sushi restaurant and lounge at 100 East Ninth Avenue. On Friday nights, he now brings women into the lounge who stand on tables and have their bodies painted by Karolina McLean, of McLean Art and Design, who also has paintings on…

What do you do if you’re from Boulder and you don’t entirely buy into the town’s clean, wholesome image — or you’re just someone who prefers some real edge to the music you make instead of mellowing out, brah? If you’re a member of Black Acid Devil (due at the…

This band from Perth, Australia, started life as Dee Dee Dums before lineup changes and an evolving sound resulted in a change of name in 2007. These guys always get called “psychedelic,” and that’s fitting enough — if by that word you mean music that stretches out conventional song structures…

Miranda Lambert has struck a delicate balance: Together with kindred artists like Jamey Johnson, she’s made country music palatable once again to the sanctimonious scads of big-city, Tea Party-loathing dissenters, infusing the genre with a newfound sense of  authenticity missing since the days of her legendary outlaw forefathers. At the…