Glitch Mob, which released its debut, Drink the Sea, this past spring, is slated to perform at the Fillmore Auditorium on Halloween night, Sunday, October 31. In August, the electronic trio also teamed up with MishkaNYC to release Drink The Sea Part 2: The Mixtape, which can be downloaded here…
NPR has been quietly building a reputation as the best place to get a peek at hotly anticipated new albums a week or two before their official releases (welll, for those of us who prefer to avoid leak sites and torrent servers, anyway). Today, it got a lot louder, with…
SLEEP Git Some • Russian Circles 09.05.10 | Gothic Theatre view full slide show From brutal, clipped guitar work to huge, foreboding sounds created by guitars that are more akin to synths, Russian Circles scrolled through a wide range of styles that it executed with both ease and precision, like…
WILCO 09.03.10 | Jazz Aspen Snowmass “Don’t even think about yelling ‘Freebird,” Wilco frontman Jeff Tweedy responded to the guy in the crowd who screamed out the name of the Lynyrd Skynyrd tune early in Wilco’s ambitious two-hour set at the Jazz Aspen Snowmass Labor Day festival. “You can wait…
Vampire Weekend Dum Dum Girls • Beach House 09.03.10 | Red Rocks Amphitheatre view full slide show Dum Dum Girls opened the show with a notable display of confidence and music reminiscent of Elastica with a ’60s girl-group vibe. The combination of chiming textures and flowing atmospheres in the guitar…
As you might have read here on Backbeat, Electric Avenue Music and Arts Festival is going on this weekend (it wraps up tonight.) Last night, photographer Eric Gruneisen stopped by the festival in Five Points and brings back these photos: Electric Avenue Music & Arts Festival (slideshow)…
If you missed it last night — you can’t blame us, we we’re giving away tickets — here are photos (shot by Aaron Thackeray) of the indie tour that swung through Red Rocks Amphitheatre last night: Vampire Weekend (for whom we can Justify Our Love), Beach House and Dum Dum…
Ah, Labor Day weekend: Time for us to chill and do nothing like it’s our job. Our musician friends, however, well, they’ll be putting the “labor” in Labor Day. To that end, there’s a ridiculous number of options if you’re looking to do something compelling and music related, and we’ve…
Cervantes’ Masterpiece Ballroom may have changed owners last fall, but things are clearly still kicking at the venue, and there’s still plenty of music in the streets. Last year, before changing hands Cervantes’ hosted the Dancing In the Streets, a three-day festival that took place at 26th and Welton…
“Me and my roommates were reading way too many Lone Wolf and Cub graphic novels,” says Odam Fei Mud’s Daniel Crosier about the formation of his neo-kabuki performance group, “and watching way too many Akira Kurosawa films.” But that’s just the inspiration behind Odam Fei Mud, slated to appear at…
So the Epilogues have finished work on its new “Hunting Season” video, which was filmed on location this past spring in the woods at the site of the infamous Hayman forest fire of 2002. To celebrate the premiere of the Dillon Novak directed video, the outfit has put together one…
Back in June, you might remember us mentioning how Boonie Mayfield’s studio had been burglarized and how he had lost most of his equipment. When we caught up with the seemingly always upbeat producer, one of our favorites, to discuss the robbery, he was, well, dependably upbeat. Heartened by the…
Okay, the level of attention Tennis has attracted is officially absurd at this point, especially considering the short amount of time the act’s been together and the ridiculously low number of shows that it has played thus far. Don’t know if you caught this, but in advance of its pair…
There’s something about the act of playing guitar that makes white people — as famously portrayed in this Chapelle Show sketch — act a fool. In that spirit, we present to you many, many faces of John Mayer during his concert last night at Red Rocks Amphitheatre. All photos by…
JOHN MAYER With special guest Owl City 09.01.10 | Red Rocks Amphitheatre View slideshow You ever been around somebody who’s had a near-death experience? Notice how they’re just a little more gracious than the rest of us, and perhaps a little more sincere? Or how they don’t take life’s fleeting…
Well, it’s official. Guns ‘n’ Rose frontman Axl Rose is less of a man than Justin Bieber, and we have the video evidence to prove it. As you’ll see in the video above (skip to 1:20 or so if you want to avoid the histrionic intro to “Welcome to the…
Coincidences often come in small, profound packages. The day Devin Mendoza and Justin Trujillo sit down to discuss their post-metal duo, Adai, just so happens to be the sixth anniversary of Adai’s first rehearsal — which took place in the practice space of their previous band, Yuriko. Not that Mendoza…
It was fun while it lasted — but Jazzmatazz Lounge, which opened last November in the space at 1612 East 17th Avenue, next to Limón, only lasted as a jazz club for a few months. And while Limón has occasionally booked bands in the space since Jazzmatazz closed, it hasn’t…
If Ahab had lived to write a memoir, its title might have been the inspiration for the name of this band. Just the same, Safe Boating Is No Accident’s lyrics aren’t as overtly tempestuous as hunting for the great white whale on the Pequod. Even though the outfit’s sonics are…
On their first two albums, Victoria Legrand and Alex Scally perfected a sound so haunting and unique that they could easily have left it exactly as it was and built a small but everlasting cult around it. But while they kept the same basic ingredients — old organs and drum…
These days you hear that sludgy, crypto-psychedelic heavy metal called “stoner rock” all over the place — or at least the influence of such when so many bands rediscover early metal influences like Deep Purple and UFO. Sleep didn’t necessarily pioneer stoner rock or doom metal, but its 1992 album,…
Le Tigre made feminism, leftist politics and sexuality seem fun and confrontational at the same time, and the act’s mixture of electronic music and rock crystallized during its live shows. When Le Tigre went on temporary hiatus in 2007, JD Samson and Johanna Fateman started MEN as a DJ and…
