Undoubtedly, the biggest news this week was word that Jim Dalton had been asked to join Roger Clyne and the Peacemakers, replacing his friend, departing guitarist Steve Larson. This was also the week that the Fray’s new album hit stores, which made for a great photo opportunity for Locals Only…
The February 4 profile “Fucked Up Pushes Punk Into the Future By Understanding the Past” is pretty hefty — nearly 1,400 words. And yet it only uses a small portion of the quotes offered by Fucked Up frontman Damian Abraham during a sprawling, wide-ranging and hugely entertaining conversation that can…
In terms of music news this was a slower week in the Mile High City. The biggest items were news of Overcasters being invited to perform at South By Southwest on the heels of a particularly harrowing trip to the East Coast a few weeks ago with the Fluid, followed…
From Leftover Salmon’s Bill McKay being arrested to Swayback adding Adam Tymn from Vaux to its line-up to Frontside Five and 29th St. Disciples landing record deals, there was tons happening this week. The biggest and perhaps most stunning item of the week, however, has to be news of the…
“William Elliott Whitmore Stretches the Definition of Hardcore,” a profile in the January 22 edition of Westword, only scratches the surface of an enjoyable and revealing Q&A with this deep-voiced roots-and-folk purveyor, who shares more in common with punk rockers than just his record label. (He’s signed to Anti-, an…
British singer-songwriter Adele Adkins, who’s in town for a sold-out show at the Bluebird Theater tonight, is having a moment. She’s been nominated for four Grammy awards, including Song of the Year and Best New Artist, in conjunction with 19, an album named for her age upon the time of…
Geek icon and Internet rock star Jonathan Coulton is set to make his first appearance in Denver on January 17, at the Soiled Dove. In anticipation of his first concert in the Mile High city, Coulton was kind enough to sit down with us to talk about his beginnings as…
This was very active week for music in the three-oh-three. Hell of a lot of stuff going on. Put it this way, we feel like we earned that cold one we’re about crack by blogging our backsides off. No really. I have no ass. Ask around. I’m all front, no…
Ron Asheton, the mega-influential guitarist with the Stooges, died yesterday at age 60 in Ann Arbor, Michigan. It’s sad news, but at least Asheton was able to experience some much deserved acclaim in his last few years, when the surviving Stooges reunited for a new album, entitled The Weirdness, and…
Let’s hope your Christmas was better than this. Here’s you guide to all the great content on Backbeat Online you might have missed this week while you were busy getting trampled by crazed shoppers at Walmart, heavily drinking or wishing you didn’t have to hang with the in-laws…
This week, U2 threw its colleagues at Live Nation a curve when it unexpectedly — well, in this economy, it shouldn’t really come as too big a surprise — set about cashing in the 1.6 million shares it received as part of a 360 deal it signed with the entertainment…
My first interview with Ryan Hendrix, one of the co-founders of Oklahoma’s Colourmusic, didn’t happen for one reason or another. But he more than made up for it the second time around. He was incredibly generous with his time, and extremely interesting and honest, too. These qualities come through in…
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French singer-songwriter Sebastien Tellier isn’t shy about talking about either his sexuality or Sexuality, his new album, throughout which he delves into matters of the flesh with great delight. But he also sees the sacred side of salaciousness, as he makes clear in a December 4 Westword profile and the…
Here’s a guide to all the great content you might have missed this week while you were eating turkey, drinking heavily, watching football or the Sarah Palin video where the guy is slaughtering turkeys behind her. Just so happens that guy’s half brother sings for Yerkish…
Lucas Field, the frontman for Low Vs. Diamond (the subject of a profile in Westword’s November 27 edition), is a Seattle native — but he spent his college years at the University of Colorado-Boulder, where he played in a jam band whose music has little in common with the tunes…
Leave the Gun. Take the cannoli. All eyes — or ears, rather — in the music world, including ours, were on Chinese Democracy this week. Most of us honestly never thought we’d live to see the release of the mythical Guns N’ Roses record, and now that we had a…
Diverse, surprising albums and an explosive, inventive live show are the hallmarks of Apollo Sunshine, a trio of friends – Sam Cohen, Jesse Gallagher and Jeremy Black – who met at the Berklee College of Music the better part of a decade ago. The group’s three albums, including the brand-new…
Dead Confederate. As a band, Georgia’s Dead Confederate — the subject of a November 20 Westword profile — is very much alive. Singer/guitarist Hardy Morris and his mates were plucked from obscurity by former Capitol Records president Gary Gersh, who made the band the first recruit for his new TAO…
If his music is half as good as his acting, expect his album to be punishingly bad Here’s a round up of all the great content you might have missed this week on Backbeat Online while you were busy digging through your old CDs for Bruce Willis’s album from the…
In the November 13, 2008 issue, we printed excerpts of our conversation with Rise Against drummer Brandon Barnes, who just happens to be a Colorado Native, who’s returned here after stints living in Chicago and Austin. Barnes weighed in on the band’s success thus far, explained the appeal of recording…
Ian MacKaye. If Ian MacKaye had a different value system, he could be one of the wealthiest men in the music business. After all, he was the primary force behind Minor Threat and Fugazi, two of the most revered rock acts of the past three decades, and he co-founded and…
