Fluidpalooza

Just in time for the Friday, June 20, reunion show featuring the Fluid – among the best Denver bands of the past quarter century – Backbeat Online is offering a cyber-history of the act in words and images. The June 19 Westword includes a new profile of the five-piece plus…

Fifty Ways to Look at the Fluid

The Fluid, which plays a reunion show on June 20 at the Bluebird Theater, wasn’t just a great-sounding band. It was also a highly visual one thanks to flashy lead singer John Robinson and a supporting cast that brought a variety of compelling rock-and-roll styles to the stage. Get a…

The Fluid’s Breakup – The Vintage Version

The Fluid reunited to play a handful of shows, including a June 20 Bluebird Theater concert (click here and here for details aplenty), almost fifteen years after calling it quits in 1993. Back then, the musical divorce was big news, but since it took place prior to the launch of…

New Reason for Show Cancellation: The Price of Gas

Acts that call off previously scheduled concerts typically do so for predictable reasons: injury, illness, slow sales and so on. But the notice that went out regarding the cancellation of a June 20 gig at the hi dive featuring Michael Dean Damron (pictured) and Thee Loyal Bastards broke new ground…

Over the Weekend…Paid Dues Festival @ Fillmore Auditorium

Paid Dues Festival featuring De La Soul Friday, June 13, 2008 Fillmore Auditorium Better than: The wack hip-hop at KS107.5’s Summer Jam Eleven hip-hop artists in six hours: Could you ask for a better night? Not to mention, Denver is only one of four cities slated to get the Festival…

Over the Weekend…the Chain Gang of 1974, the Heyday, Laylights, Swayback, Born in the Flood, Ra Ra Riot and Drive-By Truckers @ Westword Music Showcase

Photos by James Mitchell Evans, Soren McCarty and Bert Ross. Westword Music Showcase Saturday, June 14, 2008 Outdoor Stage Better Than: For the cost, any show in Colorado this summer On a blisteringly hot summer day, the outdoor stage at Westword’s 2008 Music Showcase reverberated with a consistently blisteringly hot…

Over the Weekend…Ichiban, F.O.E., Dent, Spoke In Wordz, Debajo Del Agua, Infinite Mindz, 3 the Hardway, ManeLine, Umconscious, DJ Cysko Rokwel and DJ Quote @ Westword Music Showcase

Photos by Aaron Thackeray and Dave Herrera Westword Music Showcase Saturday, June 14, 2008 DC10 The feel for most of the day at DC10 was a sense of community. Hip-Hop fans and artists alike mingled in and around the venue shaking hands, giving pounds and enjoying the Colorado hip-hop vibe…

Showcase LiveSemi-Live Blog

Click here to view the Showcase slide show. 2:30 p.m. As long as the laptop battery holds up and the connection stays live, we’ll be live blogging from the Showcase all afternoon. The Chain Gang of 1974 is just finishing its last song at the outdoor stage — Kam and…

Matthew Moon Lands Song on Budweiser’s Olympic Promo

All right, hands up: Who’s eagerly awaiting the Olympics this August? [cue crickets] Yep. That’s about what we figured. For the non-sportos — and we’re figuring that’s you, otherwise, you’d be reading the Sports Guy or The Life of Reily right now — the Olympics are about as riveting as…

MP3 Freeloader, Music Showcase Edition: Cat-A-Tac

Photo by Laurie Scavo CAT-A-TAC NOMINATED IN INDIE ROCK Performing 6:30-7 PM BAR STANDARD Personnel: Andy Tennant; Jim McTurnan; Connor Bailey; Warren Wonders Discography: Past Lies and Former Lives (2007); Cat-A-Tac (2005) Download or stream the entire track after the jump…

The Supreme Court

Several film directors have used actors as their alter egos: François Truffaut had Jean-Pierre Léaud, Federico Fellini had Marcello Mastroianni, and John Hughes had Michael Anthony Hall. When I was in high school, I had no idea who those European directors were — but Hughes made a big impact. The…

Show Business

Flobots were on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno last week. And Last Call With Carson Daly before that. Yeah, I know — old news now, right? But five years ago, when I first started writing about local music for this paper, such an event wouldn’t have been treated like…